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U.S.A.F. (Ret...
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...hostilities could be the first order of business at a conference," high American officials in Saigon and Washington warn that the U.S. should do just the opposite, maintaining and perhaps increasing military pressure until discussions are successfully concluded. In his book, How Communists Negotiate, Admiral C. Turner Joy (ret.), the U.N.'s chief negotiator in Korea, charges that Washington's early agreement to a truce line at the Panmunjom peace talks in 1951 "was the turning point of the armistice conference. Thereafter, we lacked the essential military pressure to enforce a reasonable attitude"-and 70,000 American casualties...
ROBERT W. COLLINS Commander, U.S.N.R. (ret.) Yazoo City, Mich...
...would be temptingly easy to dismiss Col. John H. Glenn, Jr., U.S.M.C.(ret.) and astronaut as little more than a huge boy scout made good. Tall, tanned, fit, graceful, handsome, just shy enough, pleasant, polite, friendly, modest, sincere--just think of any epithet related to "clean-cut," and it probably applies to the colonel. A country lad who went to Muskingham College, a United Presbyterian Church school in his home town of New Concord, Ohio, married the girl a quarter of a mile down the road, joined the Marine Corps in 1941 and stayed for 18 years, Glenn seems about...