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...reason for all this was in the meanwhile becoming clear. Viola and the Harvard witnesses retired to the judge's chambers to confer for ten minutes...
...Radioman Charles Sledge, was the 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...
...varsity soccer meeting yesterday, the team decided that coach Bruce Munro and captain Solomon Gomez would confer with each other to determine the squad's future policies on choosing a starting line-up and making substitutions during a game...
...this ethic, songs he sings without a breath of irony or wavering self-consciousness. His bearing, mannerisms, even Haggard's cocky smile reflect the poor southern white's defiant pride. Constantly faced with social and historical pressures that threaten his social position, the country music has been able to confer on its audience a heroic dimension missing in their lives and politics...
...attention focused on the drama of a quadruple skyjack last week, the greater crisis of peace or war hung unresolved over the Middle East. Israel's two top international spokesmen plan to visit the U.S. this week. Foreign Minister Abba Eban will fly to Manhattan, where he will confer with United Nations Mediator Gunnar Jarring. Eban hopes to get the stalled Middle East negotiations started again, preferably on Israel's terms. The Israelis demand the removal of the Soviet-supplied missiles that have been placed in the Egyptian standstill zone since the cease-fire went into effect...