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.4. College Station, Texas Wednesday, February 24, 1971 THE BATTAIB ‘They were enemy, not people,’ Galley says of My L ait FT. BENNING, Ga. G**) —Lt. William L. Galley Jr. admitted Tuesday that he fired at a hand ful of Vietnamese civilians in My Lai nearly three years ago, and decreed the mass execution of . others. But he said he felt he did no wrong. “I never sat down and analyzed whether they were men, women and children—they were enemy, not people,” Galley told the court- martial jury of six superior of ficers trying him on charges of premeditated murder of 102 My Lai villagers on March 16, 1968. “It was a group of people who were the enemy, sir,” Galley tes tified at another point. “I was ordered to go in there and destroy the enemy, That was my job that day. That was my mission . . . “I felt then and I still do that I acted as I was directed and that I carried out orders I was given. And I do not feel I was wrong in doing so, sir.” Galley said he fired fewer than 18 rounds from his Ml 6 automatic rifle during an infantry assault on My Lai. Among his targets, he added, were Vietnamese men, women and children in a ditch. He denied a sizable number of other civilian murders charged against him. In admitting that he directed a mass execution of unresisting Vietnamese men, women and chil dren — the government set the total at 70 — at the irrigation ditch east of My Lai, the 27-year- old Galley testified: “That was my order, sir, that was the order of the day.” “And who gave you the order ? ” he was asked. “My company commander, sir, Capt. Ernest Medina,” the de fendant replied. As for his feelings that Satur day morning in My Lai, Galley said: “I was—1 guess hyper is the right word. I’d say I was keyed up. My mind was psychologically set to do battle. I was tense and nervous, I was definitely hyper.” However, Galley, on the stand for the second day, flatly denied he ever was in the area of a trail intersection in the village. There, the government charged, he di rected and took part in the sepa rate extermination of 30 other Vietnamese civilians. Galley is charged with the pre meditated murder in the shooting of 102 Vietnamese civilians at My Lai. The maximum penalty upon conviction is death. The defendant recounted two briefings on the eve of the My Lai operation, both of which he said were conducted by Medina. Galley said Medina told his of ficers and men that “all civilians had left the area, that there were no civilians in the area anyone there was to be conjfe enemy.” Q. Do you have any tion of anybody asking Capt) dina about civilians? A. I believe somebody « if that meant women and chiH He said that meant or he said he meant everythini, TRY BATTALION CLASSIFY eH %fC£6GOOP 1971. mwcm AIWM£SHCP IWV WIGGLY w4Eee , tt>u •^V/e/Vt*2g UPTON m _ Stop P1GGLU WIGGiy’S I.LowEvei ^ 2- Advertised Specials 3- Cold Bond Stamps THE TAPE TELLS THE TALE Penny Pinchiri Prices Add Up To Total^Savings! zee ^ ■ TOWELS. UMIT ONE/ WITH PL>KNA$e pioNbuiJiav? PPEM! UAA ppcten Beerwrm^vTi^ op v&j&ieytxjfs- St if (LUT-UFTOEPS ^ flzyEWE£6T W-S94 PSZUMqWS U>.49 4 WGMS te.4Q 4 SpUTFBVrcS FPVEP- ^ ^39 v <7TB. FPVEa uwr WSAGESSi* <UXVL£r[4 v b Swift moH is. CUZ&E mi cwicmuteN$ i8.39b mo& j 18.$1 59 ^ |9 4 ^opn2|B$ W \b.A94 ® 18.39b CANNED HAM 3 ,,,.$2.99 pinkie Discount Prices HEALTH & BEAUTY AIDS mmu iAatET5cu«ri.o5; fw% cmn09)tM2jQ GIAPE6 GCOPE gf: &ct. mmsm PRICES CHOCI^ BTV. TWIT SJSSL 29c 'GESO SS’ 29c ^PW\A 55c JUICE 49c FREE FREE FREE FREE MIX CHILI MIX l00TKE.6OLP80NPgAMPG > WVTV1 Of \OoZ mope; &.1D&C£C> EXPIRES r om coupon per family ^ BEANS 15c CEPEW-tSfo ^EACHiS r S »5.43c tl^. 73c FREE FREE FREE FREE^ m &m&jk 14 Fresh Iceburg KOI EX 'IS 41c MEAL* , »®&45. LETTUCE BLEAQf 8^ HEAD RADISHES CELLO 6-Oz. Pkg. 10 WE^tVE DOUBLE 60LPBCNP WVm‘Z. 50 PURCHASE. jvtce ONIONS U. S. NO. 1 YELLOW 6.1EXA9 WP02MAC|€r WXATBPAT 1B(4i5AVe.4l2£«eMAp/ #<?UANT1TV 1 f CLIFFOF ittaUon Sp< It was sor nesday nigh ies—plnyins ,t and most ' the home niversity o on ghoms 61 insive v stru fhite Colise Several ke; ^le Aggies ept them ei i shooting A ieir seventi ight ovei jualed thei treak of thi The Aggh [inference j ■ason, some appened dv [etcalf’s eif tly seldom today nig! at with thei jre a crow' the ticke rom down c ke there ha the 7,500 When the roke loose i ■ere mobbei Lgs haven’t STi Ills - 3:1 ELLI aunivers/ last 1 west s TRAIr “Sir “3 IJ-