Word: metting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...article "Clergy and Abortions" [Nov. 28] contains several minor statistical errors and one misleading statement that should be corrected. You say that when the clergymen's counseling service "was being organized, a committee met quietly with state officials and agreed to the ground rules." The meeting took place, but ground rules were merely discussed. State officials did not agree to them...
...even the score for their comrades picked off by an invisible enemy, split into three platoons. Two were assigned to take up flank positions and block the escape of anyone from the village. The central platoon (apparently about 30 men), commanded by Lieut. Calley, headed into the village. It met no resistance on the outskirts. But despite the lack of enemy fire, Galley's men in less than 20 minutes ignited "hootches" and chased all the villagers?whether fleeing, standing or begging for mercy?into groups, and shot everyone. All were either elderly men, women or children. Estimates...
Sergeant Michael Bernhardt said no one shot at the G.I.s. "We met no resistance, and I only saw three captured weapons. As a matter of fact, I don't remember seeing one military-age male in the entire place, dead or alive." He claims Calley's men were "doing strange things?they were setting fire to the hootches and waiting for people to come out and then shooting them; they were gathering people in groups and shooting them. I saw them shoot an M79 [grenade launcher] into a group of people who were still alive...
...Committee also approved the offering of House courses, if the following provisions are met...
...Later in the afternoon. the demonstrators met at the M.I.T. student center and discussed cooperation with members of the Black Panthers...