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...trial had not been going badly for Lieut. William L. Calley Jr. During the first three weeks. Prosecutor Aubrey Daniel easily established that a massacre of unarmed, docile South Vietnamese had indeed taken place at My Lai. But Daniel complained of being "particularly handicapped" now, nearly 33 months after the fact, in proving Calley guilty of murdering anyone, let alone the 102 victims cited in the indictment. Most of the witnesses were vague and inconclusive as to who had issued the orders and squeezed the triggers. One of Daniel's most important witnesses, Paul David Meadlo, refused to testify...
Then Witness No. 31 at the 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...
...most damaging to Mitchell. Only Sledge, 23, black and a luggage-factory worker from Sardis, Miss., would say that he "positively" saw Mitchell shoot a group of Vietnamese women, children and old men cowering in a ditch. Sledge said that he recalled seeing Mitchell confer with Lieut. William Calley Jr. at the edge of the ditch before the two opened fire on the villagers from about five or six feet away. "They were falling and screaming," he testified...
...quoting Sledge as saying, "I believe it was Sergeant Mitchell firing into the ditch." Now, the defense "attorney told the court-martial, Sledge was saying that he was "positive" it was Mitchell firing. Brown cited an interview with an Army Criminal Investigation Division agent in which Sledge said that Calley had fired two M-16 magazines into the ditch but that he "did not remember about Sergeant Mitchell...
...they have proved their case beyond a reasonable doubt." The following day Brown collapsed in his motel room and was later taken to a Temple, Texas, hospital. Judge Robinson adjourned the case until Brown's recovery. After the proceedings resume, the defense is expected to call Lieut. Calley as a character witness for Mitchell. His attorney has no intention of permitting Calley to testify to the substance of events at My Lai, since Calley's own trial is due to begin Nov. 16 at Fort Benning...