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Then Witness No. 31 at the Fort Benning court-martial altered the trial's course in a full clay of dramatic testimony last week. Dennis Conti, 21, a private first class in Calley's platoon and now a truck driver in Providence, told how he and Meadlo held a group of 30 to 40 villagers-most of them women and children-on a trail in My Lai at Calley's orders. Calley returned, Conti went on, and said: " 'I thought I told you to take care of these people.' I said...
...Robert Maples, 22, a machine-gunner in the platoon and now a warehouse worker in Freehold, N.J., swore that Calley had asked him to use his machine gun on the Vietnamese. Maples said that he had refused...
When I was sitting in a coffee house in Athens, around the corner came a platoon of about 400 Greek school children, aged about 10 to 16, all wearing T-shirts bearing the junta emblem and marching in perfect step. It is unsettling to speculate where this excess youthful energy might be channeled...
...manless house. "I tried to sell a car and I couldn't find?what do you call it ?the title." And she has a problem with Mike that her dentist cannot handle, nor can she. The blond, rangy boy was switched from offense to linebacker on the defensive platoon for his junior high school football team and came home unhappy. "I couldn't tell him what to do," Jane Grumpier says...
...kicking largely because of the talent-spotting skills of its founding artistic director, Seattle-born Robert Joffrey, 39. Widely regarded as one of the best teachers and coaches in the U.S., Joffrey has a knack for signing up promising unknowns and guiding them to maturity. This season a whole platoon of new young dancers has been turning in pleasurably kinetic and graceful performances. Erika Goodman and Chartel Arthur, both 22, have developed into perky, quicksilver ballerinas with a feathery, light-operatic flair. Alone or with partners, Edward Verso, 28, is a willowy athlete who displays a sure gift for comic...