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There are other problems, too, more significant than personal ones. Though agents are assigned to protect, not serve the President, recalls a onetime Secret Serviceman: "You do what the man says." Occasionally, "the man" has asked a friendly agent to babysit for his child or carry his wife's packages; that, at times, can interfere with an agent's professional responsibilities. Under Richard Nixon, the Secret Service was criticized for being too accommodating and tapping the phone of F. Donald Nixon, the President's brother...
...government suddenly relaxed the rules for evacuating the Vietnamese dependents of American citizens. One American affected by the ruling was Karl Camp, who had already spent $1,500 in bribes in an effort to get his Vietnamese wife and her six children out of the country. Another was former Serviceman Kenneth Cowan, who had left his wife and three children in Saigon when his tour of duty in Viet Nam ended two years ago. Now a helicopter repairman in Redondo Beach, Calif, Cowan took a month's leave from his job, sold his car, diving equipment and drums...
...American serviceman with a mission to protect the freedom of America against those who would take it from us, I find the greatest "clear and present danger" to that freedom in the Burger court decision on pornography and its far-reaching implications for repressive legislation...
...keep up the spirits of the P.O.W.s, Americans are donning bracelets-some 4,000,000 at last count. Each is a metal band engraved with the name and rank of a serviceman and the date he was taken prisoner or listed as missing in action. The wearer agrees to keep the bracelet on until all 1,783 imprisoned and missing Americans are accounted for and their camps have been inspected by the Red Cross...
...major cities. Sweden is a tightly structured society, and some Americans have found it as difficult to conform to the Scandinavian brand of red tape as to military life. Then, too, they are often disappointed to find they can only scrape up menial jobs. As one ex-serviceman growled in a television interview: "I didn't come to Sweden to wash dishes...