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Again we wish you and your family well. Hugh B. Hester Brig. Gen., U.S. Army...
Since science has made possible the destruction of the Human Race, the Cold War must be ended and the present anarchist character of the nation-state system must be replaced by a planetary government of limited but adequate power to meet modern needs. Hugh B. Hester Brig. Gen., U.S. Army...
...once more sped back down the Judean hills to Ben Gurion Airport and made the 126-mile flight back to Damascus to wrap up the agreement. "We've got it," he was finally able to cable Washington. In a follow-up telephone call, Kissinger and his White House liaison, Brig. General Brent Scowcroft, discussed obliquely which end of the line would make the formal announcement. Said Kissinger: "Can I assume you want to?" Answered Scowcroft, who had already checked with the Oval Office: "You can assume we want...
...eight-year prison term for trying to boost $40 from a collection box belonging to the favorite charity of the C.O.'s wife. The 'lifers" (career men) who have been assigned to escort him from the Norfolk naval base to the brig in Portsmouth, N.H., despise their job. No one is about to burst into a carefree song-and-dance number in the course of such a journey...
...with a monumental beer bust in Washington. Next they get him into a nice, maturing brawl with some Marines in a men's room at Penn Station, and finally buy him his sexual initiation in a Boston brothel. By the time they deliver him to the brig, it appears he might just be man enough to survive his term there. Anyway, he has grown up enough to attempt a radical solution to his problem: running away from his captors. Ironically, this turns out to be the toughest test in his rue of passage: his guards are also the first...