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...still number considerably less than in previous wars. Last year only 353 of 1,100,000 eligible men were convicted as draft dodgers compared with one-year totals of 8,422 in World War I, 4,609 in World War II and 432 in the Korean conflict. Similarly, the AWOL desertion rate for 1966 was .08 for every 1,000 draftees against 3.7 in World War II and .89 in Korea...
Jacques marries Viviane and now proceeds to go AWOL from the world around him. He abruptly leaves the wedding party given by his boss. Fired for his rudeness, he begins to spend his days wandering contentedly by himself. He gazes at things for hours until they lose their conventional reality-an effect brilliantly conveyed by a surrealistic camera that converts a slice of bread into a mysterious mass of caverns, an iron lamp base into a writhing monster...
...jumped four times that high. The reason: South Vietnamese believed that U.S. airpower alone would win the war; hence, they were no longer needed. But when the Viet Cong stepped up their attacks at the beginning of the monsoon season, many of the deserters returned. The army's AWOL level alone has dropped...
...what happened next remains fuzzy. But on Oct. 1, Mintkenbaugh was summarily fired from his real estate job. Next morning, after withdrawing $2,000 from his bank account, Johnson disappeared. More than a month later Johnson surrendered to Army authorities in Reno, Nev., was subsequently court-martialed for being AWOL and given a routine job, well away from classified material, at Washington's Fort McNair. As for Mintkenbaugh, he went to California, had a little chat with his brother, and turned himself...
...recovery). As it happens, Dailey lost-but his seemingly preposterous suit was no surprise in the strange world of admiralty law. Before he got off the hook, Dailey's employer had to fight up to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and prove that the seaman had been AWOL and was a chronic alcoholic to boot...