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When Jim Sloan, 23, returned to Harvard after service as an Army sergeant in Viet Nam, he was laughingly labeled "the resident fascist pig of Adams House." Richard Parish, 22, was an Air Cav rifleman when a chunk of Communist shrapnel ripped his right shoulder to the joint; back in Michigan as a civilian, the Negro high school graduate was unable to pass physical examinations at either Cadillac Motors or Detroit Edison, and reluctantly began drawing disability pay. First Lieut. Leo Glover, 26, won a Silver Star and a Purple Heart near the DMZ as a Marine air controller, then...
...night into the camp's very midst to sow confusion. Then, from north and south, the Communists charged in force. The big U.S. 155-mm. guns were lowered to fire pointblank, and cooks and headquarters clerks joined the gun crews in manning the defense. U.S. planes, directed by Sergeant Mark Ridley of San Antonio, soon swept in to blast the attackers. When the attack began, Ridley and his squad found themselves out on patrol a quarter of a mile from the camp and with a direct view of the enemy's principal rallying point. Time and again...
...experience," he says. "I know most of these people personally and I know when something will hurt them. I can get away with nuances and insinuations that will sting them a little." He is, says a friend, "lethally neutral." Every target -tycoon or President, Republican or Democrat, general or sergeant, victor or vanquished-gets equal time...
...hocus and pocus, Heller has written a spoof of the old-fashioned war play or film. Before a precarious bombing mission, an Air Force captain (Stacy Keach) goads his squadron with poetic tunes of glory extrapolated from Kipling and Shakespeare. A corporal disappears in the first sortie and a sergeant is shot to death for refusing to go on a second. Heller indulges in hortatory asides to the audience: "Another young boy killed in a war and all of you just sit there." By the time the captain has to order his own son on a mission, it would take...
...Sloan, now a senior in Arams House, qualifies as one of Harvard's first "Viet Vets." After spending nine months of last year as a sergeant advisor in the Mekong, Sloan came back to Harvard to face a campus overwhelmingly against everything he had been fighting for. Certainly the American soldier coming back from any one of the wars we have engaged in has had a certain amount of difficulty readjusting to civilian life, but to come back from this particular war to this particular campus makes effective reintegration doubly difficult...