Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prisoner was Lieut. Commander Richard A. Stratton, 35, a U.S. Navy fighter pilot from the U.S.S. Ticonderoga who was downed over the North last Jan. 5. His Pavlovian performance in Hanoi-witnessed last month by American Freelance Photographer Lee Lockwood and reported last week in LIFE-raised fears that the Communists were once again resorting to the inhuman brainwashing techniques whose widespread use during the Korean War horrified the world. U.S. Ambassadorat-Large W. Averell Harriman warned that "it would be a matter of the gravest concern" if that were the case, and the State Department demanded that Hanoi allow...
...Abrams, 52, has been Army Vice Chief of Staff since September 4, 1964, the day he pinned on his fourth star. He will take over from Lieut. General John A. Heintges, who has been named Deputy U.S. Army Commander in Europe. The appointment of a full general to replace a lieutenant general underscores speculation that Abrams will ultimately succeed Westmoreland. Abrams, who has just returned from his third inspection tour of the war zone, considers the present U.S. force level (435,000) in Viet Nam "about right...
Sierra Leone last week got its fifth government in a week, which sets a new record even for restless Africa. The change took place while British United Airways Flight 321 from London to Freetown bore homeward Lieut. Colonel Ambrose Patrick Genda, 39, who had been summoned from his United Nations diplomatic post to head a new military junta, which had overthrown Army Commander David Lansana, who had arrested Prime Minister Siaka Stevens, who had been named to replace Prime Minister Sir Albert Margai, whose government apparently lost last fortnight's elections...
Ojukwu thinks I'll be just a titular head and sign the papers for him. I will like hell. -Lieut. Colonel Yakubu Gowon
Gowon is like a toddler trying to sweep out a room with a big broom-amusing and slightly pathetic. -Lieut. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu