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...liver or a heart for transplantation when needed is still far off in the future, but an information bank from which surgeons may find out about organs as they become available is in the process of being established. Sponsor of the bank-or, more precisely, clearinghouse-is the Medic Alert Foundation. Started on a shoestring twelve years ago in Turlock, Calif., by Dr. Marion Collins, the organization has by now issued something like 200,000 identification bracelets and necklace tags to victims of diabetes, hemophilia, penicillin allergy and other conditions, to alert medical emergency teams to special dangers involved...
...women jurors; doctors and clergymen are frowned upon as "preoccupied" drivers. A Manhattan lawyer was banned after someone hit his car in his apartment-house parking lot while he was upstairs asleep; a California housewife with a perfect driving record lost her policy because her husband was a Navy medic-driving an ambulance in Viet...
...None has ventured to seek Viet Cong help. The V.C. have not, in fact, won over a single American defector, while 27,178 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese defected last year. G.I.s flatly mistrust Viet Cong promises. "I've seen enough of their brutality," says Negro Medic John Crews, "to know that the V.C. draw no color lines in their killing or mutilating American soldiers-black or white." When it comes to standing up to Victor Charlie, there is no color difference among U.S. troops...
...minority now and then will cut off a few fingers or ears from the enemy dead as trophies. Such was the case with Specialist Fourth Class George Pawlaczyk, 22, a reporter and photographer for the 1st Infantry Division newspaper, and Specialist Fifth Class Franklin Passantino, 21, a muscular combat medic who has won both a Bronze and Silver Star and been recommended for another Bronze Star. Pawlaczyk and Passantino were with the 1st Battalion's 18th Regiment on Oct. 7, when it engaged in a fierce battle with the 271st Viet Cong Regiment nine miles northwest of the division...
With the burst of the misplaced bomb, the real ordeal of the battalion began. Eight of its 16 line officers had been killed, the other eight wounded. Only two of its three company commanders were alive. Only one medic had survived to treat the wounded, who lay bleeding and covered with grime on all sides, moaning for lack of morphine. Rescue and relief helicopters tried to reach the battalion, but were driven off by enemy rocket and machine-gun fire; twelve helicopters went down in the five days of fighting...