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Last year, capitalizing on his newfound speed, he won $97,251. This season, however, he is Pfc. Smith and, in return for the Army's allowing him to play in selected tournaments, he must donate his winnings to the U.S. Davis Cup Fund. Last week, Smith had no regrets about donating his $15,000 purse to the fund. Scheduled to be discharged in December 1972, he knows there is a lot more money where that came from...
...Calley's radio-telephone operator and now a salesman of ladies' luggage, was the first to testify last week. His tale was one of continuing horror. He recalled coming upon a group of 30 or 40 Vietnamese civilians gathered at an intersection and under guard by former Pfc. Paul Meadlo. (Meadlo has so far refused to testify at the trial, claiming the constitutional privilege against self-incrimination.) According to Sledge, Calley went up to Meadlo and ordered him to "waste 'em, and Meadlo started shooting into the people−about ten feet away." Next, "someone hollered that...
After the shooting of Nguyen Van Minh, Vietnamese police and American M.P.s quickly halted the truck involved. Pfc. Matias Yzaguirre Jr., 22, a Mexican American from Brownsville, Texas, was sent to the Danang stockade, charged with negligent homicide. Shock among Minh's schoolmates turned to outrage when U.S. officials insisted that the shooting had been accidental. "It was no accident," said a witness. "He wanted to shoot...
William Homans Jr. was sent to Viet Nam two months ago to defend Pfc. Peterson. In Boston, Homans is known as a "right-on lawyer"-he defends blacks, war protesters and poor people. But in Viet Nam, the huge, jocular attorney was too wise to come on as an overweight William Kunstler. He made sure that all the military people knew he was a World War II Navy veteran; he affected a when-in-Rome costume of field boots and green fatigues with his name sewed on the shirt pocket. And he did not advertise that he had defended Michael...
...They'll try to sock it to a brother if they can," said Pfc. Alfred Exum Jr. of Denver, an assistant gunner on a 102 howitzer in the 82nd Airborne. "Just like civilian life, the white doesn't want to see the black get ahead...