Word: awoler
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...more uncomfortable than the ordinary barracks of South Viet Nam. Located in the middle of the Army's main supply and administration center twelve miles northeast of Saigon, it houses 700 prisoners in a barbed-wire compound built for 400. Their crimes range from smoking pot or going AWOL to theft and murder, and as an M.P. staff officer puts it, the prisoners create "every kind of problem that you find in a civilian prison...
...question arose in the case of Army SP4 Clayton Anderson, a 14-year veteran who went AWOL while stationed at Fort Polk, La., in November 1964. Anderson turned himself in on February 10, 1967, and was eventually found guilty of "unauthorized absence." But under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the statute of limitations for prosecution of an unauthorized absence is two years-except "in time of war." Congress, said Anderson's lawyers, has yet to declare war. The peacetime statute of limitations had run out before their client was tried. Therefore he should be freed...
...plaint: "Over 40%, we go on to Wisconsin; 30%, back to school; 20%, we burn our draft cards; 10%, we leave the country." When the results came in, it was on to Wisconsin, where last week a hard-core cadre of 300 New Hampshire veterans, many of them AWOL from classes, deplaned to begin organizing up to 25,000 fresh Midwestern volunteers pouring in from Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Iowa-not to mention a goodly number of the Badger State's 70,000-odd resident students. As in New Hampshire, few of the volunteers had any political experience...
...lacking in the ARVN, which has been fighting for years and was virtually beaten in mid-1965 when the U.S. buildup began. Though a tough new law cut the desertion rate in half in 1967, it is still disappointingly high: more than one in ten ARVN soldiers go permanently AWOL, accounting for 70% of the ARVN's personnel losses. Draft dodging remains a national sport; even if caught, an affluent youth can buy his way out for $750 or less...
...feet. The two quickly discover that they have some things in common-cunning and duplicity. The grifter is the Flim Flam Man, a wheezy, sleazy slicker who for half a century has taken yokels with potency pills, crooked cards and his smooth Mason-Dixon line. The drifter is AWOL from Fort Bragg, and hungry. Scott proposes a merger, and the two are soon fast-shuffling their way to fortune, until the locals get wise to their brand of three-card monte and call the cops...