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Special Note. In their final decision, the six-man court-martial found Pawlaczyk guilty of violating the "laws of war," as laid down by the Geneva Convention, and of discrediting the armed forces. He was thereupon demoted to private and ordered to forfeit two-thirds of his net pay for two months. In Passantino's case, the court took special note of his heroic war record and-though finding him guilty, like Pawlaczyk, of discrediting the armed forces -lifted the specific charge of committing a war crime. He was then demoted to specialist fourth class and fined two-thirds...
Some 20,000 "phantom soldiers" are still in the ranks-soldiers who have defected to civilian life but still remain on the active rolls in exchange for letting their officers pocket their pay. Graft runs right up the command line in many units. The going price for a province chief's chair can be $25,000, an investment quickly earned back via shakedowns of the local population and kickbacks on licenses and shipments of goods...
Dean Ford says that all students will be eeligible to run for next year's Student-Faculty Advisory Committee. However, in order to vote, he cautions, students will have to pay a "small sum" and satisfactorily interpret a section of the Course Catalogue. Tanzanian journalists say that Ho Chi Minh is succumbing to an attack of boils...
Americans also feel that other nations could do more to pull up their technological socks. "It surprises us in the U.S.," Chase Manhattan Chairman David Rockefeller bluntly told a Paris meeting of businessmen, "that you pay relatively little attention to management training and to training in some of the newer scientific disciplines. The American advantage comes not so much from the discovery of new ideas and methods as from their application. It has to do basically with capabilities in management, engineering and marketing, in short, the willingness to take risks and to accept the change...
...inflationary speed. Chairman Gardner Ackley of the White House Council of Economic Advisers predicted that "a strong revival of demand" would be led by a burst of spending for factories and durable goods. It wasn't. Spotty profits kept businessmen cautious about expansion. Their borrowing served partly to pay off old loans and replenish coffers depleted by the 1966 money squeeze and the spring speedup in corporate tax collections; most of all, it reflected wide expectation that the Reserve Board might tighten up on credit or that the Government would pre-empt borrowable funds. Auto sales dropped to about...