Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Five weeks after making its decision to court-martial Lieut. William Calley on charges of premeditated murder, the Army announced that a second man would be tried in connection with the alleged massacre of South Vietnamese civilians at My Lai. He is Staff Sergeant David Mitchell, 29, who led one...
A tall, husky career Army man, Mitchell was one of 15 children of the black pastor of Rasberry Baptist Church in Saint Francisville, La. He entered the Army in 1960 and served in Korea and Hawaii before going to Viet Nam in December 1967. He loved the Army, and recently...
Twenty-four more former members of C Company are under investigation. One high-ranking officer offered the opinion last week that at least 20 of these would eventually be charged.
"Will Agnew talk, roar or do a lot of listening?" wondered a columnist in the Philippines Herald. As it turned out, the Vice President adopted a painstakingly correct manner as he arrived in Manila last week on the first stop of his 25-day, 39,000-mile tour of eleven...
Agnew remained cautious and rather stiff as he attended the inauguration of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, chatted with South Korean Prime Minister Chung II Kwon, and carried out such ceremonial chores as laying wreaths, visiting an experimental rice farm, and dispensing the latest U.S. diplomatic lagniappe to friendly heads of...