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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...
...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 'We are. We're guarding them.' Calley said, 'No, kill them.' He said to come around to this...
Lane also records testimony that charges four American soldiers with killing 19 in one village; many of those questioned refer to a shadowy acquaintance with numerous versions of My Lai...
...same time are forging a spirit of unified struggle among the Vietnamese against a common enemy. This cultural renaissance has taken many forms. During the week I spent in Saigon, the Saigon Student Union organized two "cultural events": an "art exhibition" consisting largely of pictures of the My Lai massacre and of Saigon police beating down student demonstrators; and a "soiree" of very political song, dance, and theatre- mostly a recollection of past struggles by the Vietnamese to rid their country of foreign invaders, and clearly directed to the present situation...
...people. News shows, put together by an overworked, underpaid ($17 a month) staff of six, are reasonably open for a country at war. Though no Vietnamese Fulbrights are ever seen on What the People Want to Know, Saigon's version of Meet the Press, the My Lai incident, to cite one example, was amply reported. Still, most of the fare is heavy and hard-sell. THVN does not run commercials, but slogans such as COMMUNISTS ARE BLOODTHIRSTY PEOPLE OR TO ACCEPT PEACE UNCONDITIONALLY IS SUICIDE, flash on during station breaks. Government ministries sponsor hortatory weekly series with resistible titles...