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...soldiers in killing a group of Vietnamese at an intersection of trails where about 30 are said to have died. He admitted to two other incidents. "I just saw a head moving through the rice and fired." It turned out to be a small boy. Later, Calley said, he "butt-stroked" a man in white garb, possibly a monk. He denied the claims of other witnesses that he blew off the man's head...
SOARING construction wages are the frequent butt of jokes by comedians and cartoonists. "Plumbers make so much money these days that they have to work about a week, with overtime, to pay for a Ford Maverick," gibed Tennessee Ernie Ford in a recent radio commercial. What was once mere grumbling has lately turned to alarm among businessmen, economists and Government officials. They reason that unless the U.S. finds a way to stop exorbitant pay increases in construction, the pattern will continue to spread into many other industries and to undermine the nation's fight against inflation. The problem...
...stopped by policemen who slap drivers with a court summons on the spot. Drivers with noisy exhausts or "musical" horns can be fined up to $333-the equivalent of a year's wages for many laborers-or sentenced to three months in jail. Just tossing a cigarette butt on the street can bring a $166 fine. Now Prime Minister Lee has permanently closed Raffles Place. Singapore's Fifth Avenue, to most vehicular traffic. He is also phasing out vendors' stalls, which will doubtless improve sanitation, but will also deprive the city of one of its most colorful...
...enough to beg for peace and negotiate away territory. The scene in Tanta was a far cry from Sadat's first executive address before the National Assembly last October, when he was so unsure of himself that he drew only a polite patter of handclaps. Sadat became the butt of jokes. Now the jokes are subsiding. "No doubt about it," says a U.S. State Department official, "Sadat is the leader of Egypt." "You know," adds a top Israeli diplomat, "I'm beginning to feel that we underestimated this fellow...
...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 old. Lieut. Calley put his rifle at point blank and pulled the trigger in his face. His head was just blown away." Soon afterward, Sledge heard someone hollering that "there...