Word: bases
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...foreign troops, and may find their experience even more relevant today. As Marcos remarked to the National Press Club last week, suppressing the rebels involved a two-pronged approach-"total war against the Communists and total friendship to the people, who may be misled and who constitute the mass base of Communism." Where the U.S. is failing in Viet Nam, in his view, is in its economic-development program. Said Marcos: "We are not winning the war for the hearts and souls...
Also being built is a new fuel supply system that will include a tank farm inside the base perimeter and individual feeder pipes to each of the Air Cav's 430 helicopter stands. The Cav burns about 85,000 gallons of fuel each day. Heart of the camp is the Golf Course, where the first troopers hacked out an airfield with a machete in one hand and rifle in the other. Today the Golf Course boasts a 3,300-ft. runway built of aluminum planking that can handle C-130 "Herky Bird" transports. Army engineers are busy paving everything...
...replace itself almost entirely during the course of a year's hard combat. Only 500 of the original troops who arrived at An Khe are still on duty in Viet Nam. The rest have been rotated Stateside, many to instructors' billets at the Air Cav home base in Fort Benning, Ga., where their combat expertise is well applied. The new First Team is still 70% "regular Army"-career soldiers rather than draftees-and thus man ages to retain a solid base of experience among junior officers and sergeants. Nearly 100 Air Cavalrymen re-enlist or extend their duty...
...more lavish. Some models will feature a front passenger seat that swivels 180 degrees and can be fitted out with a tiny desk to hold typewriter or work papers. Chrysler calls this Imperial "a traveling board room." The sporty Barracuda, which had been hurriedly fashioned out of a Valiant base in an effort to meet the challenge of Ford's Mustang, sold badly last year. This year Barracuda's fastback has been modified with a 'more abrupt slope (the long, tapering fast-backs are on the way out in Detroit), the back...
...long been about to go broke on her $690,500 "civil list" salary. After all, out of that amount she has to pay the wages of some 280 workers of her palace household, ranging from chamberlain to chambermaid. Sympathetic Dutch legislators are expected to double Juliana's base pay, making her Europe's highest-paid monarch. The list...