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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...everyone connected with TIME had moved into the villa-three Vietnamese employees, two of their wives, eight children and the three correspondents not in the field. Only one thing was certain, said Commanding Officer Rademaekers: "In a couple of days, the two ducks and one chicken now roaming the compound will have disappeared into cooking pots...
Many who know the prerequisites of domestic and foreign peace mourn today the loss of programs which recognize these needs. Yet many of the same people in a fit of pique, would compound the loss--ignoring the least fettered instrument of peace in America today...
...Army. Reckoning that the wartime alliance of the U.S. and Soviets would soon crum ble, he greeted the victorious invading Americans with a proposal: his secrets in return for U.S. financial backing. The U.S. accepted and installed Gehlen and his wartime staff in a heavily guarded compound near Munich that had formerly served as headquarters of Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess. There, behind double rows of concrete walls and steel fences, Gehlen plotted some of the crucial undercover moves of the cold war. He recruited agents throughout Eastern Europe, even had a minister in the East German government...
Both the older NDEA loan program, which is funded by the government, and the guaranteed loan program limit the amount that can be borrowed and require that it be re-paid in ten years or less. Without these limitations, compound interest charges would make re-payment almost impossible...
...next morning, a few hours before taking a C-47 cargo plane to Da Lat, I found Mike waiting outside the IVS compound with a green duffle bag of things for me--insect repellent, army-issue boots, socks, shorts, and--hold on--an M-3 45 cal. machine gun and 2 clips of ammunition, something that looks like an auto mechanic's grease gun and, in fact, is called a grease gun. I declined everything except the repellent but I was genuinely touched by his concern for my safety. We exchanged APO addresses and agreed to take...