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...asked the Nobel committee to donate the prize, totaling $65,000, to a scholarship fund for children of American servicemen killed or missing in action in Indochina. The Paula and Louis Kissinger Scholarship Fund, named for my parents, was established for this purpose. On April 30, 1975, as Saigon fell, I wrote to the Nobel committee, returning the Peace Prize and the equivalent of the cash award. The committee refused to accept them, replying that intervening events "in no way reduce the committee's appreciation of Mr. Kissinger's sincere efforts to get a cease-fire agreement...
...national unemployment trigger that provided an additional 13 weeks of benefits, but kept the individual state triggers intact. It is estimated that 640,000 workers will not get such payments during fiscal year 1982, for a savings to the Government of $690 million. Also stopped were unemployment benefits for servicemen who choose not to reenlist. The rationale was that military service during peacetime is an occupation, and those who leave voluntarily are in effect quitting their jobs. Finally, the budget cuts virtually eliminated the extra benefits paid under the Trade Adjustment Assistance Program. In December 1980, some 233,000 jobless...
...bomber and the M-1 battle tank. The U.S. booklet, Soviet Military Power, used artists' renderings of satellite photographs of Soviet weapons. The Soviet effort contains many distortions and a few outright lies. The total strength of the U.S. armed forces is listed at "close to 3 million servicemen," when in fact it is 2,049,100. The Soviets say that there are more than 7,000 tactical nuclear warheads in Western Europe; there are about 6,000. It is claimed, correctly, that the U.S. defense budget rose 13% between 1978 and 1980. But Moscow's pamphlet does...
...warm-up. These guys stand with their noses up against the front wall and bash the ball so hard in the pre-match rallies that there's no way their oppent can return it. It's funny to watch, but don't forget, it is a psych move: servicemen take their squash seriously...
Squash coach Dave Fish will assemble a band of walking wounded for the men's squash team's season opener today at Hemenway (3 p.m.), and somehow it's only fitting that his hobbling fife-and-drum corps will do battle with the fitness-conscious servicemen from Navy...