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...that was assigned to knock out a North Vietnamese army machine-gun post. As the squad reached a wall still standing amid the rubble, a Marine stood up to look through what had been a window, and an enemy soldier shot him through the neck. Greenway and a medical corpsman dragged the victim to the company command post, and once out of the line of fire, laid him down on a road behind a burned...
...Sudan, set up a clinic in the Congo, and build a school and irrigation dams in India, a youth center in Somalia, a sanitarium in Mongolia and a hospital on Cyprus. Averaging between 23 and 33 years old-about seven years older than the U.S. volunteers-the Communist corpsman signs up for a minimum of three months, takes a cram course on his host country and, once on the job, receives free board, lodging and $3 a week in spending money. To guard against defections, candidates are carefully screened, and those finally chosen travel and work in large groups, remaining...
...clutching his breast, slapping, clenching and conjoining his big hands to pound home his points, toying with his glasses and abandoning his previous deadpan, Sunday-sermon visage for a range of grins and grimaces, smiles and scowls worthy of a Method actor. All the while, an Army Signal Corpsman crouched unseen behind the lectern, reeling out microphone cord when Johnson wandered to the edge of the stage and making sure that he did not trip himself...
...volunteer workers in 52 countries, it has shunned frills and pared costs, saving taxpayers roughly $45 million over four years. Peace Corps Director Jack Hood Vaughn, 47, a feisty, compact (5 ft. 8 in.) redhead, was commended by Vice President Humphrey for slashing $495 off the upkeep of each corpsman last year...
Also symptomatic of the public pressure on Viet Nam policy was the response of the parents of a Navy corpsman killed at Con Thien, near the bloodily contested Demilitarized Zone. Returning a letter of condolence sent them by President Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Laning of Muskegon, Mich., wrote: "We cannot in good conscience accept your letter of sympathy because we believe that you, as President of this great country, are in part responsible for the death of our son because of your refusal to permit our airmen to bomb strategic targets in North Viet Nam." The doubt was reinforced...