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...problems are mostly about pay, not politics. "The wage rate," says one RMK-BRJ official, "is the most explosive issue facing this outfit." Surprisingly, the combine wants to pay more but cannot. The wage lid is being held down tight by both the U.S. embassy and the Vietnamese government, not only to frustrate inflation but also to keep the U.S. combine from hiring sorely needed skilled workers away from Vietnamese employers, who pay up to 23% more. Under their U.S. Government cost-plus fixed-fee contracts, RMK-BRJ's wage scales are pegged at 1957 levels; machinists start...
...year ago." Crimson Coach Harry Parker said last night at Red Top. Conn., "but that shouldn't surprise anyone. In '65 we had an outstanding crew composed almost entirely of veterans. I don't really know how fast this boat is, but I think it's a good outfit...
Aura of Hysteria. Winner in a covert internal coup that ousted longtime CORE Leader James Farmer last winter, McKissick, 44, has lately steered his civil rights outfit, a leader in the movement in the '60s, away from gradual integration toward aggressive Desegregation Now. Almost all white members and most Negro moderates have either resigned or been nudged out of national policymaking positions. Opposition to the war in Viet Nam has reached a hysteria, and CORE leaders have come close to damning any cooperation with whites-as McKissick did during his meeting with the two Baltimore officials...
Whoever thought the head man of so secretive an outfit would stand up and accept an award for running an airline under "extremely sensitive political conditions"? Yet there was George Doole Jr., Air America's managing director, smiling like a Rotarian and receiving a citation for the line's achievements from Washington's Aero Club at a luncheon in the capital last week. After the luncheon, Doole, a former Pan American Airways pilot, shrugged off newsmen's questions about his company's activities. "One wouldn't know," he said, if any particular contract...
...Mekong Delta, South Vietnamese Rangers on Operation Dan Chi (People's Determination) used American helicopters to trap another Viet Cong battalion. The Reds were part of the crack Soctrang Mobile Force, an outfit whose mobility failed it last week. Caught in a vise by three Ranger battalions, the Communists made their stand in a mangrove swamp near the village of Vinh Chau and suffered 262 dead...