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...Tootsie" to his parents, "Roosevelt's butcher" to the Nazis, "Taskmaster" to his hard-driven aides in Viet Nam and "an American hero" to President Ford. From his emergence as a tank commander in World War II to his death last week of lung-cancer complications at 59, Creighton Abrams Jr. won respect even from enemies abroad and antiwar activists at home...
...Emphasis. To cut the dollar glut, the board of directors announced in June 1972 that it would spend $30 million "for the study and treatment of hearing and speech disorders in children" at nearby Creighton University...
...National Collegiate Athletic Association selected its nine-at-large teams Thursday for its tournament: Notre Dame, Marquette, Pitt, Providence, South Carolina, Oral Roberts, Syracuse, Creighton and Dayton...
Construction on the new barracks has already begun at Fort Sill, Okla., Fort Hood, Texas, and Fort Carson, Colo. Three other posts will start on new quarters this year, and 15 more are slated for barracks renewal in 1974. Comments Army Chief of Staff General Creighton Abrams, who undoubtedly has known drabber digs: "It is a splendid design. It is admirably suited to both male and female soldiers and will make their lives better, happier and healthier." Which raises the question of whether co-ed dorms are next for The Modern Volunteer Army...
...testified General Creighton Abrams last week before the Senate Armed Services Committee, which was examining behind closed doors the campaign against Hanoi carried on for a time by Air Force General John D. Lavelle. Last spring Lavelle was recalled from his command of all Air Force activity in Southeast Asia and demoted for conducting 28 raids against North Vietnamese airfields and radar sites between November 1971 and March 1972. The raids were in clear violation of the White House rules then in force on bombing North Viet Nam, and came at a period when the Administration was engaged in delicate...