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...Barker put it. "I was there to follow orders." Caught in the Democratic National Committee's Watergate offices on that fateful night of June 17, 1972, they all stoically pleaded guilty and trooped off to jail. As the scandal has expanded, they have become its forgotten men: Bernard ("Macho") Barker, 56; Virgilio ("Villo") Gonzalez, 47; Eugenio ("Musculito") Martinez, 51; and Frank Sturgis...
...deny that he had said those words-"Why I agreed to it [the interview], I'll never know," he confessed later-but it was a little hard to imagine just how the precise, bespectacled professor of history at Harvard could see himself as a lean, flinty-eyed macho on horseback. Still, in a way Kissinger's self-portrait was not so preposterous as it sounded. Proud, private and consummately confident of his ability, Kissinger has always acted alone, rising to his present eminence with the aid of almost no one but himself...
...Macho's two squadrons claimed the highest sortie rate of American airmen anywhere in Southeast Asia. Each of their 52 daily "hops" averaged more than an hour, and most pilots lived with an exhausting schedule-between 14 and 16 hours a day, seven days a week. Now, the mood at Bien Hoa resembled early New Year's Eve when everyone is waiting for the boring annual office party to begin. Long lines of Marines stood listlessly on the tarmac waiting to board C-130s for transfer home. Huddled in the shade by the sprawling base terminal building...
...flight line, ground personnel winched 500-lb, bombs onto the wing racks of Macho's 30-odd Skyhawks, guarded from rocket attacks by steel revetments that were decorated with gaudy graffiti. GOODBYE VIET ALLIES...
...late afternoon, the final four flyers moved out of the ready room and suited up. Colonel Macho drove out on the flight line to watch them take off. Ground personnel had painted the last bombs red, white and blue, inscribing them with labels: 500 POUNDS OF JELLY BEANS, CARE PACKAGE, LAST CHANCE CHARLIE. Read one carefully lettered piece of ordnance: THIS BOMB IS DEDICATED TO THE HOPE THAT ALL MARINES HERE AT BIEN HOA WILL SOON BE ENJOYING A GOOD AND EVERLASTING PIECE. It was not an inadvertent misspelling...