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Although those involved in the case declined to discuss specifics, there are indications that at least one black police officer will be promoted to sergeant...
Very Sad. Nearly all of the 1,264 individuals who have requested repatriation so far are people who left Viet Nam without their families. Nguyen Than Danh, 26, a former South Vietnamese Air Force sergeant, says that he left involuntarily. In April a military plane he was riding in changed course in mid-flight and spirited its passengers to safety in Thailand. Danh's wife and five-month-old son are still in Viet Nam. "Maybe the new government will kill me," he says sorrowfully, "but I cannot live here without my family. I am very sad thinking that...
With a chestful of ribbons (Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Commendation Medal from three tours in Viet Nam) and Airman's Performance Reports studded with ratings of "absolutely superior," Leonard Matlovich, 31, is the very model of a modern technical sergeant. He is also a professed practicing homosexual. As such, he has become a celebrity in the armed forces, which every year drums out hundreds of homosexuals on grounds that they "seriously impair discipline, good order, morale and security." Tall and redhaired, Matlovich has become, in the words of American Civil Liberties Union Lawyer David Addlestone, "a beautiful case...
Matlovich's act was the culmination of a long personal odyssey. The son of a career Air Force sergeant, Matlovich grew up on military bases in such places as Charleston, S.C., Alaska and Guam. In 1963, after graduating from high school in England, he joined the Air Force. "I knew I was homosexual then," he says. "I had been since I was in the seventh grade...
...agreement, and a seven-hour delay by the students the next day, the occupation ended. The three Americans, two Marine guards and a civilian who had barricaded themselves inside the compound for a week, emerged tired and worn, but unharmed. "It was one week in hell," said Sergeant Donald E. Wilburn, 26, of Osgood...