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...sudden susurrus of shock ran through the Fort Hood, Texas, military courtroom. Defense Attorney Ossie Brown reacted as if someone had pinched his neck. The defendant, burly Staff Sergeant David Mitchell, 30, the first of the 17 soldiers so far charged in connection with the deaths of the My Lai villagers, stared in uncomprehending disbelief. Last week, just six hours and three witnesses into the proceedings, the lanky prosecutor, Captain Michael Swan, rose to say: "Your Honor, the prosecution rests its case...
...stand up well under cross-examination by Defense Attorney Brown, a wily veteran trial lawyer from Louisiana. Brown brought out several discrepancies between Sledge's courtroom statements and his earlier testimony before Army investigators. Brown read from one transcript quoting Sledge as saying, "I believe it was Sergeant Mitchell firing into the ditch." Now, the defense "attorney told the court-martial, Sledge was saying that he was "positive" it was Mitchell firing. Brown cited an interview with an Army Criminal Investigation Division agent in which Sledge said that Calley had fired two M-16 magazines into the ditch...
Hubert Williams was a sergeant and precinct commander in the most heavily hit area during the 1967 New-ark race riots and has walked a beat for eight years in that city, which some people point to as the finest example of urban decay in the nation...
...master sergeant's alcoholic reverie? Not at all. That vision of the future U.S. Army was soberly presented last week by the Pentagon as a realistic goal to be achieved within three years as part of an all-out drive to make the U.S. armed forces consist solely of volunteers. Ideally, Selective Service would be reduced to a stand-by status, its machinery available only in an emergency requiring an unusual mobilization of manpower...
...sergeant's] ugly voice