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Easy Living. For many Soul Alley AWOLS, the living is easy. Explained one: "You get up late, you smoke a few joints, you get on your Honda and ride around to the PX, buy a few items you can sell on the black market, come back, blow some more grass, and that's it for the day." Rent for the second floor of a brick house rarely runs to more than $40 or $50 a month, including laundry and housekeeping services. Hustling is the name of the game here. This gives everyone plenty of money for anything from soul...
...still unbroken record for long-distance skyjacking in October 1969, when he forced the crew of a TWA jet to fly 6,900 miles from California to Rome. At the time, Minichiello was AWOL and fleeing from a court-martial; he had broken into a PX because, he said, the Corps had cheated him out of $200 in pay, and he wanted to square accounts...
...general who invents a major enemy offensive to derail the Paris peace talks (rival U.S. Army and Marine Corps units end up bombarding each other); and a CIA agent who, while posing as a beggar, learns of a Tet offensive against the most cherished spot in Saigon, the "Big PX...
...music fan, and prefers to work at home for an hour or two each evening with Burt Bacharach or guitar music in the background. Photography is his passion. He began shooting movies of the President and big state events last year with a camera he bought in a Bonn PX, and has since virtually filmed Nixon's every step. What socializing Haldeman does tends to be with like-minded members of the Administration. His closest friend in Washington is Ehrlichman, a former classmate at U.C.L.A., whom Haldeman enlisted as an advance man in the 1960 campaign. Haldeman was working...
...Fifth Division. Much of the Big Red One's equipment, including 27,000 weapons, 4,500 Jeeps and trucks and 500 artillery pieces, was handed over to the South Vietnamese and other U.S. units. As the pull-out date neared, nonessential supplies all but disappeared. The base PX ran out of everything but men's swim trunks. Two "massage" parlors and the Crossroads Bar just outside the main base, foreseeing a disastrous curve in the local business cycle, closed down...