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Other freshmen are considering taking off a semester to enlist in the National Guard, which would commit them to a four to six month tour of duty and later service during summer vacations...
Calley got into the Army in the first place almost by accident, when he ran out of gas and money in Albuquerque and decided to enlist. He talks in a convincing colloquial way about such things as pizza-pie-throwing contests at OCS, a one-day "wartime romance" with a Vietnamese prostitute named Yvonne, and the repeated indoctrination to kill, as well as to serve the almighty body count. According to Calley, almost nothing was said either about protecting civilians or adhering to the Geneva Convention. For three months after arriving in Viet Nam, just after the Tet offensive, Calley...
Unlikely Survivor. The same afternoon, General Fawzi tried to enlist the tough commander of Egypt's Saiqa (Thunderbolt) Special Forces troops, Major General Mohammed Husseini Shazli, in a coup attempt. It was to have begun shortly after the joint resignations of Fawzi, Sharaf and three other ministers were to be announced on the radio news. Though Shazli was supposed to take over Cairo and arrest Sadat, in fact he did nothing. (Later, he too was rewarded, with an appointment as army chief of staff.) When the resignations were announced on the air, anti-Sadat demonstrators were expected to pour...
...Administration speakers at Sanders Theatre on March 26. Terming the demonstration a "damaging blow to the peace movement" and an example of "lunatic hooliganism," Lowenstein demanded, "What the hell are they afraid of letting these people say. If they're so big on violence why don't they enlist in the Vietcong and kill somebody...
...said that some of his men were "like foreigners," speaking a language utterly different from his own. The military's new efforts to relax unnecessarily rigid discipline and humanize the whole system (TIME cover, Dec. 21) may reduce this generation gap somewhat, but it is not only the enlisted men who find the Army wanting. A wonderfully articulate major, who read Timon of Athens during a slow day in Viet Nam, confided to his diary: "Once I was sure that whoever would be a good soldier must be an educated man. Slowly I shift from that conviction...