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After three years of law at Oxford, Albert returned to Oklahoma, eventually went into private practice. In 1941 he enlisted in the Army as a private, emerged five years later, after service in New Guinea, Okinawa and Japan, as a lieutenant colonel. Back in McAlester after the war, he resumed his law practice, but when Representative Paul Stewart resigned because of ill-health, Albert ran for the seat. He won a spirited Democratic primary by a scant 350 votes; his Oxford background had not sat well with some of the farmers. The general election was a pushover (Oklahoma...
Reforms on paper are not necessarily reforms in practice, but the U.S. was cautiously optimistic. An aircraft carrier sailed from Okinawa bringing the first U.S. helicopters to enable Diem to spot his elusive Red enemies, and aid, mostly military, to Saigon in 1962 will reach $400 million, nearly double this year's. At the same time, Secretary of State Dean Rusk appealed to the U.S.'s allies to share in the anti-Communist struggle in Southeast Asia. To illustrate the nature of that struggle, the State Department issued a 35,000-word White Paper, documenting in detail...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). First of two programs on guerrilla warfare, as taught by the U.S. Army at Fort Bragg, N.C., and on Okinawa...
...Communists decide to touch off a brushfire in Southeast Asia, the first Army troops to swing into action would be the 2,000 paratroopers of the 503rd Battle Group, which is stationed on Okinawa 1,500 miles from South Viet Nam. Despite the knowledge that they are expendable troops, the spirit of the 503rd men is so high that many were genuinely disappointed that they did not get into action earlier this year during the Laotian crisis. Says Captain Jere Hickman: "We were sharpening our knives. I felt sorry for the enemy." The paratroopers share Okinawa with the rugged...
...softspoken, hard-driving logistics expert who commanded the Marine Corps from 1956 to 1960; of cancer; in Bethesda, Md. A World War I Army private who entered the Marines from Virginia Military Institute in 1921, Pate directed supply operations at Guadalcanal, did staff work on the Iwo Jima and Okinawa invasions, and assumed his only combat command-the 1st Marine Division-in the last months of the Korean...