Word: trails
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Sledge's testimony also accounted for the two specific deaths charged to Calley in the overall indictment. Calley is charged with killing no fewer than 30 people along the trail, no fewer than 70 people in the ditch, plus an old man and a young child. Sledge testified that he and Calley came upon a monk dressed in white robes at the end of a ditch. Calley started interrogating the monk, "then he hit him with the butt of his rifle in the mouth ... He [the monk] was sort of like pleading. He was about 40 to 50 years...
...York City cop. He reinforced the testimony of both Sledge and Turner, then added a weird example of the kind of transformation that men in combat can undergo. At one point, Dursi related, having rounded up a group of civilians, "Meadlo had them sitting on a dike [near the trail]. He was playing with the kids, giving them C-rations and candy like we always did." Calley arrived and asked Meadlo, "Why haven't you wasted them?" As Dursi moved away, he heard automatic gunfire coming from Meadlo's area. Dursi also testified to witnessing Calley and Meadlo...
...America's immense technological complex in Indochina-sophisticated and deadly as it is-has moved only haltingly to provide complete military victory. Daily pounding of the Ho Chi Minh trail by America's entire Southeast Asian B-52 fleet has failed to stop the flow of supplies from the North (raids on supply depots in the North are probably being contemplated as a result). In fact, the entire war has tied down America's air apparatus so extensively that the U. S. military would be hard-pressed to mount a comparable offensive if confronted with other wars of national liberation...
...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 said, 'No, kill them.' He said to come around...
Speaking of discrimination, when was the last time you saw Mrs. Claus out on the department store campaign trail? While Santa is out doing business, his wife is back home in the kitchen baking Christmas cookies and looking after the gifts. That's her place, she's led to believe. She doesn't even ride in the sleigh the big night. If she did, she probably wouldn't get to hold the reins...