Word: awols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Defendant Raffaele Minichiello. A lance corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps, Minichiello, now 21, set a still unbroken record for long-distance skyjacking in October 1969, when he forced the crew of a TWA jet to fly 6,900 miles from California to Rome. At the time, Minichiello was AWOL and fleeing from a court-martial; he had broken into a PX because, he said, the Corps had cheated him out of $200 in pay, and he wanted to square accounts...
Both Major General Phillip Davidson Jr., who helped develop the program, and the Pentagon are pleased with its results so far. Morale in the first three companies trained under the merit system was higher than average. AWOL and sick calls lower. One of the test companies set a Fort Ord record in rifle marksmanship. But many oldtime drill instructors resent the change, which diminishes their authority and forces them to deal more personally with the recruits. They may be forced to go along anyway. The President is hoping to make military service voluntary, and there are likely to be more...
...sixth grade in Connecticut, Brooke remembers, "there was this shed on the school grounds where we all used to go to listen to Jane tell her dirty traveling-sales men stories." At Vassar, she made reality out of wistful thinking. Jane once discovered that school administrators knew she was AWOL. She telephoned, crying. "But before I got a chance to say I was sorry," she recalled, "the professor said he understood that my father had just married for the fourth time and that I was emotionally upset...