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...Lt. Gen. Hagjit Singh Aurora, Indian eastern front commander, said yesterday that about 7000 Pakistani troops trying to escape across the Ganges River were under air attack. He said at least one river steamer, carrying an estimated 500 Pakistani troops, had been sunk by Indian aircraft, which made over 100 sorties during...
...moment, Kramer dropped his guard ("baring" himself, as he put it), and told the audience about his projected film on Lt. Calley. Kramer has the rights to John Sack's book, and spent five weeks at the courtmartial getting seventy hours of tape. "You've got to recognize that he's a human being. Certainly, he's uneducated and inarticulate. But he's a human being, and the prosecution was trying to make him out as some kind of animal...Before you understand My Lai 4, you've got to understand My Lai 1 and My Lai 2. This...
...Virginia, former state Senator Henry E. Howell was elected Lt. Governor running as an independent on what the Washington Post labeled a "consumer populist" platform. He defeated an organization Democrat, and a Republican nominee hand-picked by G.O.P. Governor Linwood Holton. Howell ran for Governor two years ago and narrowly lost the Democratic nomination...
...date, only one man, Lt. William Galley, has been convicted for participation in the My Lai massacre, and he will now be the only one. Of the 25 officers and enlisted men who were originally charged with either sharing in the killings or covering them up, only six have come to trial, and four have been acquitted-though the division commander, Major General Samuel Koster, was demoted one star, and his assistant, Brigadier General George Young, was reprimanded. The only man still on trial is Colonel Oran Henderson, who is charged with suppressing the affair instead of informing his superiors...
...COURT-MARTIAL OF LT. CALLEY by Richard Hammer. 398 pages. Coward, McCann & Geoghegan...