Word: nams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like any proud father-in-law, L.B.J. was telling war stories about his two boys in Viet Nam. It seems that Airman First Class Pat Nugent, with a supply outfit, has volunteered for so many extra combat-supply missions he has logged more than his share of flights and has been temporarily grounded. Marine Captain Charles Robb, just reassigned to a staff job after commanding a rifle company for five months, has become a cool customer under enemy fire. One day, explained the President, Chuck was taking a shower when he heard the whistle of an incoming round. He listened...
Except for the last sentence, Terry Sullivan, 30, could have been writing home about graduate school. Instead, his words appeared in a recent issue of Win, a magazine devoted to the Nonviolent Movement against the Viet Nam war. Sullivan's observations were intended to reassure fledgling draft resisters, to tell them that the ordeal of prison is not as terrifying as it seems. A draft resister who spent ten months at Danbury Correctional Institution in Connecticut, Sullivan was released a year ago. He recommends prison as "a great experience-you'll love...
...present, almost 800 draft resisters and evaders are locked up in federal prisons throughout the country.* Whether they opposed war in general or the Viet Nam war in particular, whether they burned their draft cards or simply refused to go, each was convicted under the same clause of the Selective Service Act. Yet sentences vary enormously, depending upon the attitudes of the federal district judges who hear the cases. Some defendants are put on probation and will probably never go to prison at all; others draw the maximum sentence of five years and a $10,000 fine. Last year...
...strength of his teen-age record, Ashe earned a scholarship to U.C.L.A., where he won two U.S. Intercollegiate championships, joined the R.O.T.C. and graduated with a commission in the Army. "I'd be proud to go to Viet Nam," he said, but the Army assigned him to West Point as a systems analyst, a job that allows him time to play in tournaments and compete for the U.S. Davis Cup team...
Died. Major General Keith L. Ware, 52, commander of the U.S. First Infantry Division in Viet Nam (see THE WORLD...