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...took the seven-officer jury six hours and 40 minutes of deliberation to find Sgt. Mitchell not guilty of assault with intent to murder 30 Vietnamese civilians in an irrigation ditch. The charges against Mitchell carried maximum penalties of 20 years in prison...
...seven plays. Blanda hit Wide Receiver Warren Wells with a 14-yd. scoring pass to tie the game 20-20 with 1 min. 34 sec. remaining. Then after the Raiders regained the ball on an interception, George completed his seventh pass of the afternoon to set up another last-ditch field-goal attempt with just three seconds left. This time, though, the goal post was 52 yds. away, a distance that Blanda had equaled or surpassed only three times in his 21-year pro career.* Undaunted, he got all of his 218 Ibs. into the kick and boomed a high...
...Harvard football team asserts its last-ditch claim to the runner-up spot in the Ivy League this afternoon when Harvard and Yale meet for the 87th time at 1:30 p. m. in Harvard Stadium. Yale is favored by six points...
...last-ditch effort, the Crimson finally scored a touchdown late in the fourth quarter. The third Yardling quarterback of the game. David Driaric, throw a pass to Gerald Chase to make the final score 18-9. The attempt for two points was short...
...cross-examination by Defense Attorney Brown, a wily veteran trial lawyer from Louisiana. Brown brought out several discrepancies between Sledge's courtroom statements and his earlier testimony before Army investigators. Brown read from one transcript 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...