Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Dartmouth and Yale led the first team selections with six players each. Running back Dick Jauron was the only sophomore in the top group. Brown and Penn, which had the slightest first team representation, nabbed the majority of second team and honorable mention berths...
...Fort Benning court-martial altered the trial's course in a full clay of dramatic testimony last week. Dennis Conti, 21, a private first class in Calley's platoon and now a truck driver in Providence, told how he and Meadlo held a group of 30 to 40 villagers-most of them women and children-on a trail in My Lai at Calley's orders. Calley returned, Conti went on, and said: " 'I thought I told you to take care of these people.' I said 'We are. We're guarding them.' Calley...
...second and much larger group of Vietnamese died in an irrigation ditch on the east side of My Lai. Conti approached, he said, and saw "Lieut. Calley and Sergeant [David] Mitchell standing on a dike, firing . . . There were people in [the ditch] and Calley and Mitchell were firing into it ... I saw one woman try to get up. I saw Lieut. Calley fire and blow the side of her head off. So I left...
...events that shocked the world. Acting with unflinching determination, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau rejected the terrorists' initial extravagant demands for Cross' release: $500,000 in gold bullion, plus transport and safe conduct for 23 jailed F.L.Q. thugs to Cuba or Algeria. After the ransom was denied, another group of kidnapers then abducted Quebec Labor Minister Pierre Laporte, prompting Trudeau to crack down really hard. Under a little-used World War I security measure, the Prime Minister invoked emergency police powers -something that had never been done in peacetime in tolerant, democratic Canada-and sent battalions of special police...
...party, including Foreign Minister Abba Eban, Deputy Premier Yigal Alton, Minister Without Portfolio Israel Galili, Party Secretary-General Arie Eliav and about ten city bosses, finally met at Mayor Rabinowitz's home to settle the question. The only other real contender besides Dayan and Sapir that the group had to consider was Allon, but within party circles he does not have Sapir's clout. When Golda Meir received the news that the decision had gone to Sapir, she was described as gratified...