Word: px
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...especially unlikely sort. A young (20 last week), pleasant-looking Marine veteran of Viet Nam, Lance Corporal Rafael Minichiello was absent without leave from Camp Pendleton, Calif. The Italian-born lad thought the Corps had cheated him of $200 in pay. To get even, he had broken into a PX and was facing a special court-martial when he quit Pendleton...
...into the El Cortez Hotel atop a hill in the city's center, their bills to be paid with a $40,000 fund raised by the San Diego Chamber of Commerce. The men got some $200,000 in back pay and promptly unloaded some of it in the PX, opened for an hour despite the holiday. After a Christmas dinner, Bucher read a message from the families of Apollo 8's astronauts: "Your reunion has brought great joy into our hearts this Christmas Day." The Pueblo crew members reciprocated. After the space capsule's successful splashdown, they...
...attack rifles. This was the Milovice-Mlada military reservation, where some 20,000 occupation troops have taken up residence about 25 miles north of Prague. With perhaps 300 tanks in their "panzer park," a supply system that brings in everything from candy bars to jet fuel, and a booming PX, the Russians have plainly moved in for a long stay...
...whenever possible and save their regular dollars to sell on the black market. They had ample reason. "Green" dollars, which wealthy Vietnamese coveted for squirreling away outside the country, brought about 200 piastres in illicit dealing. The scrip was also purchased by natives, who used it to buy military PX goods through G.I. contacts...
...sympathizers voted yesterday to have an anonymous supporter with Army PX privileges buy the food that is distributed in the sanctuary room. A student whose father is an Air Force officer told the crowd that the government loses money on PX sales...