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...Frank A. Barker...
Commander, Task Force Barker...
...could accept such a defense, Calley and Medina, the only actual participants still charged, could both be acquitted on the ground that they were following apparently lawful orders from Colonel Frank Barker, their task force commander, who died three months after My Lai. Thus My Lai could conceivably enter history as a massacre for which no one is legally held responsible. Calley, who is well aware that he was his own best witness at the trial, considers himself by now an expert on the horrors of war. He has said that he would some day like to make a combat...
...fierce fight for depositors' dollars, many banks have borrowed the tactics of the midway barker, luring customers with all kinds of promotional promises and "free" gifts. Though savings today are at record highs and loan demand almost stagnant, some bankers believe that consumers may soon begin a monumental buying-and borrowing -spree. To pile up cash reserves for this eventuality, banks are offering ever more opulent gifts to new depositors...
...testimony, the prosecution rested its case. Defense Attorney George Latimer continued to call witnesses to corroborate evidence against the chain of command. He also succeeded in getting several previously confidential documents entered into the record of Galley's court-martial. One was a combat-action report filed by Barker after the incident. It claimed 128 "enemy casualties" and described problems of "population control and medical care of those civilians caught in the fire of opposing forces." The overwhelming burden of testimony has shown that there were neither enemy forces nor hostile fire in My Lai that day. Another document...