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...combat-and 149,154 were wounded seriously enough to be hospitalized. The study reports that 472,013, or 2.6% of the total population of South Viet Nam, have been killed or seriously wounded while serving in South Viet Nam's armed forces. Going by the U.S. "body count" figures, the number of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers killed (714,984) equals 3.45% of the population of North Viet Nam. Civilian deaths in South Viet Nam, described in the report as "very approximate," number 325,000. According to the South Vietnamese government, 30% of the dead were children under...
...Splinter Groups. In May, a new group was formed by families who consider Administration policy toward prisoners an excuse for prolonging the war. P.O.W.-M.I.A. (Missingin Action) Families for Immediate Release-who count some 300 relatives among the supporters of their stance-called a press conference in Washington to demand that the President set a definite withdrawal date in exchange for the release of the prisoners. The group's organizer, Mrs. Harold Kushner of Danville, Va., charged the Administration with "using the prisoner issue to buy time for the South Vietnamese government." Another member was more blunt. Said...
JAPAN Nukes for Nippon? Unlike recent junkets by other Administration officials, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird's ten-day swing through Tokyo and Seoul seemed carefully calculated to be thoroughly unspectacular. Laird's message was the same for both allies: they could count on continued protection from the Seventh Fleet and the U.S. nuclear umbrella, but they would have to furnish "credible deterrence" on the ground themselves. Who could get upset over what amounted to yet another sales pitch for the Nixon Doctrine...
...year was 1964 when Edward ("Ned") Coll, an idealistic 24, left his promising job as a junior executive with a Hartford, Conn., insurance firm to found a social-action agency. Professionals and family were not amused. "It will take $80,000 to get started, and don't count on volunteers," gruffed the local antipoverty chief. When he started going around to newspapers to sell his cause, his father, a retired postal clerk, would call ahead and warn the editor that Ned was not to be taken seriously...
Young nomads who run into trouble with the law while abroad should not expect much aid. All a U.S. consul can do is help them find a lawyer and notify their parents. At last count there were 747 young Americans in foreign jails, all on charges of possession of and trafficking in drugs. Hirsute amateur capitalists who are caught trying to turn hash into cash find that penalties are generally harsher abroad than...