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...reason that I came to Kent State University was for an education. And I'm getting one. Seeing those khaki-green tents and trucks on the football field, men carrying real M-1 rifles loaded with real ammunition, and then witnessing some of my fellow students bleeding and hysterical, left a far deeper impression within me than my most effective professor could have...
This book cannot stop the war. Its only aim is help those who dissent. [It is] designed as a practical guide for those who do not feel they should have to wear either military khaki or prison stripes. . . It is written in the hope that no potential IV-F dies fighting a war to which he is opposed...
...west of Saigon. Pines reports: "In one village, where the V.C. had burned a district office that Sean wanted to photograph, we two Americans created quite a commotion. Sean, especially, fascinated them. Six feet tall, strikingly handsome, with long blond hair almost to his shoulders, he wore only sandals, khaki shorts, a white pullover and love beads. While he was photographing the house, we saw South Vietnamese air force planes bombing just across the border. We had learned earlier in the day that both Vietnamese and American artillery and airplanes had begun regular missions on Cambodian soil. Sean wanted...
...kidnapers threatened to kill him unless the government of President Joaquin Balaguer released 24 prisoners. After two days of haggling, the government placed 20 prisoners aboard an aircraft bound for Mexico City, and the kidnapers released Crowley blindfolded from an automobile. He was still wearing the riding boots, khaki pants and white jersey he had worn 21 days earlier when he went to the polo field to exercise some ponies...
...with vast markets for their goods. Today the Japanese have come closer to establishing an informal Co-Prosperity Sphere than ever before (see map, page 27). The difference is that the latter-day wako carries a soroban (abacus) instead of a sword and wears blue serge instead of the khaki of General Hideki Tojo's Imperial Army...