Calley Tells His Story
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~IW~TA~4AMO DAY, O~A ALLU. S. NAVAL SAMSAM. EVANTANAM0 BAY. CWA FEBRUARY 23, 1971 Phone 9-5247 Calley Tells His Story FT. BENNING (AP/AFRTS)--Having recounted the agony of seeing his men fall arey to a ghostly enemy, Lt. William L. Calley's testimony today 'We weren't supposed to turns to the Saturday morning at My Lai that be a bunch of Boy Scouts.' brought him to trial. -- LT. CALLEY "It dawned on me that we weren't playing games, that we weren't supposed to be a bunch of Boy Scouts out there playing," Calley said as he told his murder trial jury of his school days, a series of insignificant jobs,. Army training and finally Vietnam. U.S. Raids N. Vietnam The 27-year-old lieutenant was completely composed yesterday as he began testimony in SAIGON (AP/AFRTS)---The U.S. Command today his trial on charges of premeditated murder of announced its heaviest air strikes in North 102 Vietnamese villager. Vietnam in three months, South Vietnam's top His testimony today was to begin with the fighting general was killed in a helicopter briefing Charlie Company was given the night crash, and for the sixth day no progress was before it swept through My Lai. Calley led the reported in the South Vietnamese drive in company's first platoon. southern Laos. Calley unfalteringly told yesterday what he Fifty American fighter-bombers raided sur- was taught bout the enemy. face-to-air missile sites and other antiair- "There never was any word of exactly who the craft positions in North Vietnam Saturday and enemy was, but to suspect everyone that Sunday, accompanied by about 20 support air- everyone was a potential enemy and that men craft, the command said. It added that no and women were equally danger- planes were lost. The "protec- ous and because of the unsus- d tive reaction" raids, heaviest pectedness of children, they in U.S. since Nov. 21, were made af- were even more dangerous," he CHICAGO (APIAFRTS)---An in- ter "repeated hostile acts and said. tense late-wint er snow storm, recent SAM firings by antiair- The six officers on the now centered ver the upper craft positions against U.S. jury, five of them showing the Ohio Valley, is moving toward aircraft" involved in the Laos ribbons of Vietnam service, the northeast section of the operation. followed Calley's account of country. The bl izzard was jud- Lt. Gen. Do Cao Tri, com- pre-My Lai combat experiences ged responsible for at least mander of the 25,000-man South intensely, at times leaning 17 deaths yes terday as it Vietnamese drive against enemy forward in their chairs as he dumped one foe t of snow from base camps in Cambodia was pointed to a relief map of the the Texas pa handle to the killed. He was a confident, (Please see Page 8) tALLEY,Plains and midtrest. aggressive leader. Page 2 Guantanamo Gazette Tuesday, February 23, 1971 Japanese Emperor a /E?7 GAZETTEER Plans Trip TOKYO (AP/AFRTS)--Emperor Hirohito and .a digest of late news Empress Nagako will visit Europe next fall on the first trip abroad by a Japanede monarch. Leaving Tokyo'Sept. 27, the royal party will fly to Denark, Belgium, France, Britain, the Netherlands, Switzerland and West Germany, At least two persons have been killed and more than and will return to Tokyo on October 14. 30 injured by new tornadoes striking heavily Brief stops.will be made in Anchorage, populated sections of Cumberland County in Alaska, going and coming. North Carolina. The twisters, which also struck It will be Birohito's second visit to Columbus, Ohio, have damaged a North Carolina Europe but the first trip abroad for his wife. orphanage and Veterans Administration hos- In 1921, five years before he succeeded to pital. Yesterday, President Nixon declared the throne, he visited Britain, France, the Mississippi Delta a major disaster area Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy. He was after dozens of tornadoes killed 82 persons. the first Japanese crown prince to leave the country. Informed sources say the Israeli government has created three committees to draw up territorial terms and new borders Israel would accept in a Convicts File Suit Against State Mideast peace agreement. Egypt reportedly again CHINO, Calif. (AP/AFRTS)--Convicts at the has told the big four that peace is impossible California Insitution for Men aren't going to until Israel withdraws from all captured Arab lose their warden, if they have their way. territories. (Related story Page 6) Seven inmates with a petition carrying sig- The AFL-CIO says labor union. inspectors plan their natures of 700 others have filed suit in U.S. own policing of the new federal occupational District Court to prevent the state from safety and health law. According to the Labor transferring Supt. Walter T. Stone to another Federation's Executive Council, the job of the prison. inspectors will be to make sure the law is en- "The inmates here are getting a little self- forced by federal and state officials. respect since Stone became superintendent," says Stan Cohn, serving a 10-year sentence for Sources within the Federal Railroad Administra- grand theft. "He's tough, but he understands tion say the FRA's top job, vacant for nearly us." eight months, will be going to the vice-pres- Stone is a veteran state corrections officer ident of the Illinois Central Railroad. The who has spent much of his 25 years of service ICR executive, John Ingraham, will neither at the minimum security prison here. Seven confirm nor deny the reports. The Federal months ago he was promoted to head a three- Railroad Administrator' post has been vacant prison complex at Chino. On July 1, the state since Reginald Whitman announced his resigna- is reassigning him as superintendent at , tion June 26. Soledad Prison, an institution housing tough Scientists in Houston now say the. lunar golf shot felons 130 miles south of San Francisco. Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard said went "I've never head of anything like this "miles and miles and miles" may actually have before," says Stone, adding that the suit gone only feet and feet and feet. The 3cient- probably has little chance. ists say pictures taken on the moon have dis- Cohn, a spokesman for the inmates, said closed a golf ball about 20 feet from Shepard's Stone has started several programs which are "tee" beside the lunar lander. popular with the men. Guantanamo Gazette Boston, rain 33 Philadelphia, rain 42 Comavaae.Bndm. B. McCauley Washington, rain 46 Local Forecast Public Affairs Officer. LCr. W. Boer II. Editorial Advisor.JOC Jim Teague Chicago, snow 32 Partly cloudy this afternoon. Editor.J03 Allan Smith St. Louis 30 Winds will be SE 8-12 with Editorial Assistant.J03 Bob Wellborn Staff Photographer. J03 Tom Betz Kansas City 28 gusts to IF. The high today Staff Artist.JOSN Steve Duren Dallas 3 expected to be F3 and the low Beeline Editor. X51 Bill Walker Denver 15 tonight will drop to 70. Last The GIANTrANANK) CAZETTE is published according to the rules and regulations for ship and station news- Phoenix 46 night the temperature dropped papers as outlined In NAVEXOS P-35 and under the direction of the Naval Base Public Iffairs Officer. Los Angeles 53 to 68 degrees. It is printed four days a week at government expense San Francisco on government equipment. The opinions or statements in news Items that appear heroin are not to he con- Seattle 45 strued as official or as reflecting the views of ComNavBase or the Department of the Navy. Anchorage, snow 18 Tuesday, February 23, 1971 Guantanamo Gazette Page 3 STWAR KCoupon Drive Opens Again. The local drive to purchase an artificial kidney machine for the Tennessee Kidney Foundation has been resumed with Mrs. Regina Mayberry calling for more General Mills and Betty Crocker coupons. A copy of the list containing the coupons may be picked up from Mrs. Mayberry at the First National City Bank. Mrs. Mayberry began the local drive last November and collected 1,080 coupons by January W4hen she mailed them .And Here's where you get them! to Tennessee. Here is a list of products from which coupons can be clipped will no longer purchase kidney for the project to purchase kidney machines for the Tennessee machines. it has set a May 31 Kidney foundations deadline for the drive. Betty Crocker cake mixes, pie crust mixes, Instant Potato As if Jan. 17, 230,000 cou- Buds, Softa-Silk Cake Flour, Bis-Quick, Gold Medal Flour (it pons had been collected. The is inside), Cherrios, Trix, Twinkles, Kaboom, Clackers, Kix, goal Is 600,000. Frosty Os, Wheaties, Total, Cocoa Puffs, Lucky Charms. The local deadline for the Also Chase & Sanborn Coffee, Borden Silver Cow Evaporated drive is May 15. Milk, Hawaiian Punch Fruit Drink, Borden Cremora Non-Dairy Mrs. Mayberry says the goal Creamer, Royal Pudding, Lucky Whip Topping, Star Kist Tuna, can be reached with the co- Di-et Chewing Gum--Clark, Captain Crunch, Life, Quake, Quisp, operation of persons here and Quaker Puffed Rice, Quaker Puffed Wheat, Quaker Shredded in the states. Wheat, Aunt Jemima Corn Meal, Aunt Jemima Corn Sticks, Aunt Jemima Toaster Waffles, Aunt Jemima Cinnamon Sticks, Aunt Jemima Hominy Grits, Aunt Je- Contest Deadline Sunday mima Pancake mix, Lucky Filter King, 100s, Montclair Menthol Deadline is Sunday for the contest to name the former Flaw King, Half and Half Filters, Terminal Restaur-ut. The restaurant has been remodeled and Also Royal Gelatin, Comstock will be reopened next month, according to Steve Luchs, clubs Pie fillings, Royal pie fill- manager.