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...posture in response to serious border problems with China." From 13 to 23 highly mobile and missile-equipped Soviet army divisions stationed on the border are gradually being brought up to reinforced strength. The Russian leadership is conducting a country-wide indoctrination program to make sure that every Soviet serviceman and citizen understands that the enemy lies at his door to the East. Party Secretary Leonid Brezhnev lectured party leaders in Moscow, Donetsk and Gorky; President Nikolai Podgorny hit Kazan and Sverdlovsk. Premier Aleksei Kosygin briefed the Pacific Fleet last month, and dropped in to give his blessing to schoolchildren...
...helicopter pilot who has flown 400 assault operations in Viet Nam, has had his craft hit by gunfire 23 times, has twice been shot down and has collected the Bronze Star and eight oakleaf clusters for his Air Medal. Now Captain Willmore, 31, has become the first and only serviceman in the Vietnamese war to declare for public office in the U.S. Willmore is seeking the Democratic nomination for Congressman in Idaho's Second District, has already won the party's official endorsement. Last week he started home to prepare for the August primary. If he wins...
Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey dies of attrition. President Johnson appoints young serviceman, Patrick Nugent, in his place. Hugh Hefner refused to appear at White House Conference on the Fine Arts. "I won't go near that place until the Playboy Philosophy is law," he says...
...Your story should make every draftee and antiwar demonstrator realize that our leaders are not inhuman warmongers. The courage, loyalty, faith and determination of the U.S. serviceman have been demonstrated since 1776 and are being shown right now in South Viet...
...other words, is the mother of preservation. During the second World War, for example, a British paratrooper, downed in the desert and separated from his buddies, slogged 200 miles through the sand, quenching his thirst exclusively from the radiators of abandoned Jeeps, tanks and trucks. And an American serviceman lived for 22 days in the jungles of Burma on insects, grasshoppers, larvae, butterflies...