Word: px
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Over the next 30 months, Panamanians will assume full control over courts, police and prisons. Meanwhile, the U.S. Government is trying to make things as comfortable as possible for the remaining Zonians. They will have PX privileges at the army bases to compensate for their loss of the subsidized commissary once run by the now defunct Panama Canal Co. They will also receive free postage, and schooling for their children will be provided by the Pentagon. Said Major General Harold Parfitt, the 17th and last governor of the zone, who is going home to Texas: "There will be no tomorrows...
...because I do 'womanly' things and they work." And their wives are no more sympathetic, barely acknowledging his presence when he does the family wash in the basement laundry of the military apartment complex where the Venemas live. Nor is life any easier at the PX; every time Richard goes there he seems to have to explain to yet another puzzled clerk that his wife is the soldier, he the dependent. Grousing does not help: "Nobody listens to me because nobody has to listen...
...bloodletting, but both sides admit that some Iranian soldiers were killed and mutilated by anti-Shah rioters. The army then displayed their bodies to other soldiers, who reportedly ran over demonstrators with tanks, shot wildly into the crowds and even attacked civilian hospitals. The demonstrators reduced the army PX, symbol of the military's privileged position, to a ruin, along with a local Pepsi-Cola bottling plant, delivery trucks, the Iran-American Society building and the home of the sole U.S. military adviser in the city. The adviser was not at home, but his Iranian guard was killed...
...military is rewarded for its devotion. Officers' pay ranges from $2,000 a month for lieutenants to a high of $70,000 a year for generals. In addition, officers receive modern housing with servants, vacation quarters, and PX privileges that enable them to buy hard-to-find luxury items without paying normally high taxes on them. Privates on long-term enlistments receive $400 a month and sergeants $1,000; conscripts, who constitute only 20% of the force, get the equivalent of a dollar a day. (Iran's civilian per capita income: $2,200 a year.) Barracks are modern...
...greatest irritants to Philippine sensibilities involve the U.S. bases. Clark Air Base and the Subic Bay naval facility are bastions of affluence that contrast painfully with the poverty and squalor near by. Filipinos are critical of the PX mentality that prevails on these military reservations. At Clark an Olympic-size pool, 18-hole golf course, three movie theaters and 14 base exchange stores serve the 20,000 people who live there. Until U.S. and Philippine authorities cracked down this year, too much of the tax-free stereo equipment, perfume, potato chips and liquor sold at the exchange stores ended...