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While driving Lieut. Follett's car without a military driver's license, SP4 Johnson was stopped one day by MPs; he was fined $80, reduced to private and given 14 days extra duty. Then he was transferred to another job at a dispensary in Worms, 25 miles away, forcing him to commute by train or car, or to hitchhike. Says Johnson of his new assignment: "The people here are pretty nice. As long as I keep my bunk tidy and footlocker straight, nobody cares where I spend my nights...
...phalanx of Marine Corps MPs would not be able to keep audiences away from Pippin. Does this mean that it is one of the pinnacles of the art of musical comedy? Hardly. What Pippin possesses is splendiferous theatricality, the kick of a lightning bolt and a passionate professional knack for being entertaining. The show satisfies the popular non-platonic ideal of a US musical. It has the musk of sexuality, firecracker dance numbers, sunshiny songs and smashing girls that the gods of Olympus might ogle...
Swiftly the Israelis moved in. During a two-minute fight, four MPs and a Lebanese gendarme were killed and five of the seven Syrians captured. They proved a high-level bag: a brigadier general and two colonels from the army general staff and two air force intelligence officers, plus a Lebanese captain acting as their guide. They were flown off in helicopters for interrogation, and Israel said that they would be treated as prisoners of war. There were hints that they might be offered in exchange for three Israeli flyers held since 1970 as prisoners in Syria...
...black major were both shouted down. When Beverly Bradford, a white reporter for the Anniston Star, was discovered in the midst of the WACs, she was subjected to some unladylike pummeling. "It was wild," says Colonel Richard Hines, the deputy post commander. "It would have taken 50 MPs to stop those women...
...meeting-if it could be called that -completely fell apart, and McKean brought in the MPs. No force was used, thanks partly to the efforts of some black MPs, but the 140 who were arrested were taken to the city and county jails because McClellan has no stockade...