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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...
...dressed, and clambered down the mountain: We joined the people at the campfire between the pool and the resort ruins. We chatted with the twenty-odd residents of the ruins, smoked a little dope. Yana borrowed a pair of jeans from one of the residents. I met an AWOL soldier who was traveling through in a VW bus. With him were his wife and a tiny baby and a hitchhiker they had picked up earlier in the day. When they left to find a place to camp that night, Yana and I went with them...
...Western kid, Carl Dixon (Michael Douglas), goes AWOL from an Eastern college. He returns to the family ranch-a spread about the size of Rhode Island-to make an important announcement: he has enlisted in the Army to see if he can love the enemy up close as he does from afar. But nobody listens. Dad and Mom (Arthur Kennedy and Teresa Wright) are too busy bickering. His crippled brother is off tomcatting around town, wishing he were fit enough to fight...
...turns quietly reading the names of all the Viet Nam war dead. At one point, the Bishop of California, the Rt. Rev. C. Kilmer Myers, introduced a procession of priests and youths bearing antiwar signs and wooden crosses aglow with psychedelic flowers and asked for "spiritual sanctuary" for two AWOL soldiers who had flown from Hawaii to the convention. Clearly the U.S. Episcopal Church, which for years has been a leader in the fight for change, was now ready to commit itself even more fully to the battle...