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...have Negroes proved to be a weak link that the Viet Cong could hope to break. "The violence back home the V.C. write about is true," says Negro PFC Gregory Putnam, 20, a Detroiter from an East Side storm center of last summer's rioting. "But it has nothing to do with the war." None has ventured to seek Viet Cong help. The V.C. have not, in fact, won over a single American defector, while 27,178 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese defected last year. G.I.s flatly mistrust Viet Cong promises. "I've seen enough of their brutality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Greetings from Victor Charlie | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

...contrast, the Army's orders-is-orders syndrome led to comedy of the absurd in the case of Pfc. Joe A. Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Two Who Stayed Home | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

Nervous Cat. Nabors is both a representative and a caricature of the noble American rustic. As Gomer, a leatherneck Pfc, he wears a gee-whiz expression, spouts homilies out of a lopsided mouth and lopes around uncertainly like a plowboy stepping through a field of cow dung. He is a walking disaster area. When his drill sergeant chastises him for "taking the taxpayer's money without putting in a day's work," the hapless recruit returns part of his paycheck-and fouls up the bookkeeping system of the entire Marine Corps. Yet in the end, Gomer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedies: Success Is a Warm Puppy | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

RICHARD P. SMITH PFC, U.S.A. Fort Sill, Okla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 3, 1967 | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

...PFC) DOUGLAS E. BLAYNEY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 6, 1967 | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

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