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...scout car for a firsthand look at developments across the Cambodian border in Svay Rieng province and perhaps Phnom-Penh. Driving the car was Michael Morrow, 24, a founder and correspondent of Dispatch News Service, the tiny agency that distributed Seymour Hersh's Pulitzer-prizewinning story on My Lai. Between the two men sat Elizabeth Ann Pond, 33, on leave from her job as Viet Nam correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor...
Hammer also provides new details about a second massacre that took place during the attack of March 16. He claims that while Charlie Company was shooting up My Lai, Bravo Company killed nearly 100 civilians in another hamlet about two miles away...
...LAI 4 by Seymour M. Hersh. 210 pages. Random House...
...sixties-like their counterpart, the twenties gave us new kinds of murders, the likes of which this country had not seen before. Not only did we have the old-fashioned type of homicide, but we had torrents of political murders (four major assassinations, the Panthers, My Lai) and drug murders. The problem is that these three categories of sixties-style slaughter are sure bets to hold over (and possibly flourish) in this new decade. This month along has given us Augusta, Jackson and Kent State...
...uneasy thoughts occur to them: My Lai, Bobby Seale, Cambodia, King, Fred Hampton all rattle in their heads like identical stones. They already hear a war on the other side of the world. Next year, they will discover that a few blocks away there are places they never dreamed...