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...that other war is not over. When one of our Saigon correspondents remarked to a U.S. Marine sergeant that there would not be much space in this issue for Viet Nam, he was told: "Don't worry, boy. This war's got staying power...
...understandably reluctant to try to extend such power to directly oppose Congress, which has control over the Court's appropriations, membership, and jurisdiction. In Kilbourn v. Thompson, it acknowledged that it could not consider charges against Senators for actions performed in their official capacity, but it did allow the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate to be sued. Presumably, the Court could order the Clerk of the House to inscribe Powell's name on the list of members, but it would be powerless to force the House to stop treating him as a non-member...
Kiotsuke! The Japanese drill sergeant called his platoon to attention so earnestly that his voice broke and the whole outfit burst into laughter. There was nothing for the sergeant to do but grin and bear it. For this was no ordinary bunch of boots, supposed to tremble at a drill instructor's every whim. The 70 young men in ill-fitting fatigues who stumbled through close-order drill at an army camp near Tokyo were all employees of the Tokyo Mutual Life Insurance Co. Their Taiken Nyu-tai (draft experience) was scheduled to last exactly three days...
...because their "army" life is uncommonly pleasant. They do get lectures on the organization of the Self-Defense Force; they also get a minimum of marching and exercise with wooden bayonets. Their drill instructors are completely out of character. "We have to be sweet to these people," complained one sergeant. "After all, they're only civilians...
Green Beret master sergeant who is now "military editor" of muckraking Ramparts magazine, testified that Vietnamese irregulars, usually Montagnard tribesmen, cut off the right ears of slain enemies to collect up to $10 per capita bounty from Special Forces. "Cutting off an ear," he explained, "was considered proof that you had killed a man." It was a gruesome practice indulged in by irregular troops-not the regular Vietnamese army. Asked about Vietnamese mistreatment of prisoners, Duncan said: "Beatings and general brutality were the order of the day. Normally, when it started, you would turn around and light a cigarette...