Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most enduring indictments of the U.S. in Asia is that racial considerations underlay Washington's decision in World War II to drop atomic bombs on yellow Japanese rather than white Germans. Last week retired Lieut...
...truth is hard to find, especially in Indonesia, where confusion is a way of life, and President Sukarno is the greatest obfuscator of. them all. Still unresolved last week was whether the six generals were martyrs slain by Communist-supported plotters or whether they had been killed by Lieut. Colonel Untung and his palace guards to prevent their launching a coup of their...
Nasser was not the only target of abuse. Egypt's Lieut. General Ali Ali Amer, commander of a proposed army of allied Arab states, bitterly complained that Jordan and Lebanon refused to allow foreign troops to be stationed in their countries. Jordan's King Hussein replied stubbornly: "This is just not the right time." Tiny Lebanon was again assailed for its reluctance to get moving on the long-delayed project to divert the Jordan River and deny its waters to Israel...
Once again world headlines blared the story and Hanoi yelled that the U.S. was using "toxic gas." Utter found his decision to try gas again under investigation, even though tear gas has remained regular issue for all Marine units. Unless Washington orders otherwise, Lieut. Colonel Utter is likely to fare kindly at the hands of U.S. brass in Saigon. Privately, most of them think that he did the right thing under the circumstances-and that a reluctance to use tear gas is an unnecessary and even inhumane restriction in doing what is one of the most unpleasant and difficult jobs...
...last, six limousines, escorted by Brazilian marines and U.S. paratroopers, hauled up in front of Wessin's house near San Isidro. In the cars were Dominican Armed Forces Secretary Commodore Francisco Rivera Caminero, Brazilian General Hugo Panasco Alvim, commander of the OAS peace force, and his deputy, Lieut. General Bruce Palmer, commander of the 82nd Airborne. The brass trooped into the house and trooped out again accompanied by Wessin y Wessin. Two hours later he was on his way to exile...