Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WAYMAN, U.S.A. Avon Park, Fla. Sir: Aero engineers stole the moon out of Junes Medico pioneers took the heart out of tunes About all that's left in the bowl luv, is soul. ESTHER ANN GOLDBERG Lyndhurst, Ohio That Corson Book Sir: In its criticism of Lieut. Colonel Corson's book, The Betrayal [June 28], TIME again underscored one of the major contradictions of the American involve ment in Viet Nam: We cannot make our local allies worth defending without taking them over completely and becoming blatantly colonial, one thing is even-clearer than the improbability...
MICHAEL W. DUNLOP St. Louis Sir: TIME should take with the proverbial grain of salt the statements of critics as well as protagonists on Viet Nam. For example, you cite Lieut. Colonel Corson as having me proudly announce "the distribution of 150,000 more tons of fertilizer in five northern provinces in 1967, failing to mention that the region's rice production fell by 150,000 tons during the same period...
...LIEUT. PHILIP D. FLYNN JR., U.S.N.R. LIEUT. ALAN R. POSNER, U.S.N.R. Annapolis...
...Nigerian military government, headed by Major General Yakubu Go- won, accuses the Biafrans of purposely allowing suffering for the sake of "waging psychological war and seeking diplomatic advantage." The government points out that the Biafrans, led by Lieut. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, have turned down a plan to have the Red Cross ship food through federal territory to Biafra. But Gowon insists on federal handling of any such shipments, and the Biafrans fear that his men would poison the food: they cite instances of beer laced with cyanide and powdered milk infected with bacteria found in Biafra. Even if Gowon allows...
...Lieut. Colonel William R. Corson would be an unusual soldier in any man's army. He speaks Malay, Vietnamese, and three dialects of Chinese, reads Russian, French and German. He is completing a doctoral thesis on China's finances. A slum kid who dropped out of high school, he won a university scholarship at 15, studied as a mathematician under the late Nobel prize winner Enrico Fermi. He fought the Japanese as a World War II Marine, won a master's degree in economics and political science, and fought in Korea and Viet Nam as a tank...