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Another soldier in the group following Calley's was SP4 Varnado Simpson, 22. "Everyone who went into the village had in mind to kill," he says. "We had lost a lot of buddies and it was a V.C. stronghold. We considered them either V.C. or helping the V.C." His platoon approached from the left flank. "As I came up on [the village], there was a woman, a man and a child, running away from it toward some huts. So I told them in their language to stop, and then they didn't and I had orders to shoot them down...
...only with a gesture of recognition," Danforth reports. "He shuffled papers nervously, trying to look busy at his practically empty desk. Under the circumstances, he seemed reasonably cheerful." Calley is attached to the staff of the deputy post commander, Colonel Talton Long, designing plans for the colonel's parking lot and working on an infantry museum project while he helps prepare the defense for his court-martial. One month ago Calley visited his ailing father, who now lives in a trailer park in Hialeah. "I want to help my boy, but I just don't know what...
Barnaby was not overly impressed with the victory. "It was not the challenge we expected." he said. "It was a lot of fun playing, but there were no great performances. You need two players to make a great match. We were more experienced all down the line, and there was never any real pressure...
...going to sweep and clean Mass Ave, all the way to Harvard. City Manager James L. Sullivan has arranged to provide the sweepers with all the brooms they need, and HOP is going to have plenty of plastic garbage bags on hand. All it needs now is a lot more people; everyone who wants to help should...
ANOTHER new but more firmly established organization, Ecology Action, is planning a different sort of activity: a Christmas Crafts Workshop. Allen Berube, a co-ordinator of the organization, said that the workshop will tie in with a boycott against traditional Christmas shopping. Christmas these days involves a lot of unnecessary advertising, excess packaging, and garbage. It is a time of sales and profits more than anything else. The Craft Workshop, which will last from Dec. 7 to 23, is intended to provide an alternative way of giving at Christmas. People will come in and make gifts with the help...