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Charges against Eric M. Mann and 23 other Weathermen of conspiracy to commit murder were dismissed Saturday by Judge M. Edward Viola of East Cambridge District Court...
Viola found probable cause Saturday for the Middlesex County Grand Jury to hear evidence against James H. Reeves of assault with intent to commit murder in connection with the shooting incident. Viola also found probable cause for the Grand Jury to hear evidence against Reeves, William L. Geoghegan, and Jill H. Wattenburg on charges of failure to have a firearm identification card...
Ridenhour's letter led to a new probe-and to formal charges. Last month, just two days before he was to be released from the Army, charges of murdering "approximately 100" civilians at My Lai were preferred against one of C Company's platoon leaders, 1st Lieut. William Laws Calley Jr., a 26-year-old Miamian now stationed at Fort Benning, Ga. Last week Staff Sergeant David Mitchell, a 29-year-old career man from St. Francisville, La., became the second My Lai veteran to be charged (with assault with intent to commit murder). The Army has another...
Outrage Again. There have been other American atrocities in Viet Nam. Ten Marines were prosecuted in 1967 after a nighttime rampage in Xuan Ngoc in which two women were raped and a family of five killed. Daniel Lang's Casualties of War describes the kidnap-rape-murder of a young girl by four G.I.s in 1966. Yet such incidents are only a small part of the mosaic of brutality for which both sides are responsible. Terror is a principal Viet Cong tactic. So far this year, by actual count, the Communists have killed 5,754 civilians, wounded...
...Also in Cambridge, police arrested 15 young men and nine women said to be members of the supermilitant Weatherman faction of S.D.S. Raids on three apartments netted a small arsenal: one shotgun, three rifles and nearly 1,000 rounds of ammunition. All 24 were charged with conspiracy to commit murder by firing two shots through the front window of the Cambridge police station earlier this month...