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SSgt. Barry Sadler's best selling album, "Ballads of the Green Berets," purports to fall into this last category, and the jacket blurb is certain, "that many years from now these songs.... will be recalled as a true expression of the Vietnam combat soldier's feelings during the time of that fierce encounter." It's an inviting prospect: elderly Special Forces veterans spinning this disc on their various VFW record players in years to come, and sobbing into their suds. "That's the way it was, man; that's the way it really was." But SSgt. Sadler's collection...
...hoked-up Folk Rock, and the one catchy tune, Bamiba, turns out to be an old Kingston Trio favorite, complete with only slightly altered lyrics. This theft, I must add, is in the best tradition of militant songsters the world over, and it is only to be regretted that Sadler and Bass confined their chicanery to the musical dregs of the last ten years...
Although their diction ranges from the heavily eloquent ("What is the Badge of Courage? /It's sweat and blood and tears," and "Our toll is written in history's scroll / In bright, bright lines of red.") to the quasilyrical ("Lay the green sod oe'r me"), Sadler's words are united by the common theme of self-congratulation. Sometimes they approach the sickness of Teen Angel as in Trooper's Lament where, "As he fell through the night, / His 'chute all in flames, / A smile on his lips, / He cried out his girl's name," but generally these songs...
...volume of air traffic between Japan and the U.S. has nearly tripled in five years, in part because of the deepening U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. The U.S. airlines are also struggling against foreign encroachment on their domestic business. Japan Air Lines' new rights, says American's Sadler, are "the latest in a long series of moves that have changed completely the role between domestic and international carriers. Years ago, the international carriers served the coastal cities of the U.S., exchanging traffic with their domestic counterparts. Now the U.S. is a lattice work of international carriers lifting traffic...
...what the Marshall Plan would do, and we would have anticipated the European boom." Moreover, American has recently lost out on applications for some lucrative domestic routes, notably Miami-Los Angeles, has added only one major nonstop route, New York-San Francisco, in six years. Says President Sadler: "American has been held to the smallest expansion of any domestic airline...