Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Justice Done. Such calm acceptance was the prevailing attitude of the activated Reservists-even among Viet Nam veterans. New York's Lieut. Peter Dodge, 27, veteran of 215 combat missions in Viet Nam and holder of a drawerful of medals, including the Distinguished Flying Cross, was released from the Navy four months ago. About to begin commercial-airline pilot training, he was ordered back to duty with Squadron VA831. "I'm not upset," said Dodge. "I'm very anxious to see justice done." Another who felt the same way was Marko Jukica, a naval gunner...
...some of those called back, it was the fourth and fifth time they had been summoned to the colors. Lieut. Colonel LaVerne Donner, 46, commander of the 107th Tactical Fighter Group, Niagara Falls, fought in World War II, and was later reactivated for the Korean War and the Berlin and Cuban crises. When his unit was mobilized again, said his wife Marilynn, "we all sat down and cried...
...every Reservist was so dismayed. "It couldn't have come at a better time," allowed Lieut. Commander John Brame, a member of Erv Johnson's Naval At tack Squadron VA776 at Los Alamitos, Calif. Brame, a real estate salesman, had just concluded a big project and currently has "nothing in escrow." Air Force 2nd Lieut. Jim Riordan, 25, of the 150th Tactical Fighter Group, Albuquerque, N. Mex., was all ready to go and "even looking forward to it. In the back of my mind, I figured we would be called...
...police, who began to set up road and street blocks to intercept the assassins. Even so, they got within several hundred yards of the Blue House before police sighted and challenged them. A brief battle ensued, in which a policeman and a guerrilla were killed, and one young guerrilla, Lieut. Shin Jo Kim, was captured. The rest of the North Koreans escaped, and a nationwide man hunt spread out to catch them before they could get back through the DMZ. By week's end all but ten had been caught, but only one alive. The rest died shooting, killing...
...home by punishing the officials and army officers who had sided with the King. It removed former Premier Constantine Kollias, who had accompanied the King on his flight to Rome, from his post as Chief Prosecutor of the Supreme Court and gave dishonorable discharges to 33 army officers, including Lieut. General George Peridis, who tried to rally army troops in northern Greece to the King's cause. It also dismissed 56 university professors for disloyalty to the regime and barred them from teaching in Greece for life. Meanwhile, seven colonels who hold posts as secretaries general in the junta...