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...offers high odds on the next event. The cowboys eagerly plunk their money down, and Tom rides flawlessly. It is a profitable little con, but Tom had something more conventional in mind. Fed up, he finally deserts Red and becomes a main attraction at the "big shows" like Pendleton and Odessa. Called "Killer" because he rides the horses way past the sound of the buzzer until they finally drop dead from the strain, Tom takes out all his rage and self-contempt in the saddle...
...night shrouded the Southern California coast. There was no sound but the rush of the surf as 80 Camp Pendleton Marines, their faces blackened, huddled in the brush in night ambush position. They kept their weapons at the ready in preparation for a night assault by "aggressors"-fellow Marines engaged in landing exercises...
Riots, racism and guard brutality used to be facts of life at U.S. military prisons from the Marine brig at Camp Pendleton, Calif., to the Army's Long Binh jail in Viet Nam. Last year a blue-ribbon panel of civilian penologists visited 23 Army lockups, found most of them dismal, and issued a critical 133-page report. Aware of the problems, the Pentagon urged sweeping reforms...
...CAMP PENDLETON, where Marine guards reportedly used to beat hog-tied inmates, the brig population has been halved to less than 500, and a new $2,500,000 facility will open in August. Captain Sam Saxton, an assistant warden, has helped improve the guards' caliber. "When we see a guard going sour," says Saxton, "he's out of here in 72 hours...
...grotesque aspect of all war that it becomes a sort of chess game in a charnel house. At week's end Nixon, as if to find a brief respite in a crisper tradition, flew to Camp Pendleton, Calif., to welcome home the 1st Marine Division after five years of bloody fighting. Acrid white smoke rose over the parade grounds from a 21-gun salute. Nixon, thoughtful and obviously proud, pinned a presidential combat citation on the unit colors. "We are not going to fail," he told the Marines. "We shall succeed." Later he issued a word of warning...