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...what they can," he says of the missionaries' efforts to keep the Biafrans' hair from turning blonde (the last stage before death by starvation) by flying in food, principally baby food for the festering mouths of the people. The problem is, McGuire says, that he as an airman can fly the food in, but there is no guarantee that it will reach those who need it. "It goes here, it goes there, it goes everywhere," he says sadly. So he wants to return, go back to Biafra, this time on the ground to supervise distribution of food supplies...
Like any proud father-in-law, L.B.J. was telling war stories about his two boys in Viet Nam. It seems that Airman First Class Pat Nugent, with a supply outfit, has volunteered for so many extra combat-supply missions he has logged more than his share of flights and has been temporarily grounded. Marine Captain Charles Robb, just reassigned to a staff job after commanding a rifle company for five months, has become a cool customer under enemy fire. One day, explained the President, Chuck was taking a shower when he heard the whistle of an incoming round. He listened...
...what they can," he says of the missionaries' efforts to keep the Biafrans' hair from turning blonde (the last stage before death by starvation) by flying in food, principally baby food for the festering mouths of the people. The problem is, McGuire says, that he as an airman can fly the food in, but there is no guarantee that it will reach those who need it. "It goes here, it goes there, it goes everywhere," he says sadly. So he wants to return, go back to Biafra, this time on the ground to supervise distribution of food supplies...
...that Pueblo's fate is dimming in public memory and Viet Nam troop levels have been stabilized, many reservists feel there is no longer an overriding need for them to stay. "We don't have any idea when it will end," complains Airman First Class Eugene Potter, 21, who left his salesman's job to shuffle papers as a clerk with the 445th Wing. "If we had some kind of idea what we will be doing, we could make plans...
After 12 weeks of fusing 750-lb. bombs in Cam Ranh Bay, Airman First Class Patrick J. Nugent, 24, has volunteered for still more hazardous duty. Now in the first stages of training as a loadmaster for C-123 transport planes, President Johnson's younger son-in-law will eventually be charged with loading and dumping out supplies to troops in the field-an assignment that may take him into the thick of combat...