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...began as a modest proposal to solve a major problem?and just grew and grew. As the armed forces built up during World War II and the Korean War, military bases mushroomed overnight and threw heavy burdens on local school districts, which were expected to educate children of servicemen. In Midwest City, Okla., for example, the number of kids in classes jumped from 285 to 1,500 in one year after Tinker Air Force Base opened near by. School officials around the country lobbied Congress to pass a law granting federal aid in lieu of the local property taxes that...
Seven European countries, including West Germany where many American servicemen are stationed, allow military men to form unions or professional associations to negotiate wages and working conditions...
...military has reserved substantial acreage in Palau and the Marianas. The highest naval profile is on Guam, where two-thirds of the island-including the best beach, the only lake and the one patch of tillable soil-remains off limits to the population save for 8,800 U.S. servicemen and Pentagon civilian employees...
Certainly the wounds are healing, even those most painful wounds of old wars. At Christmas-week talks with U.S. officials in Paris, Vietnamese representatives agreed to intensify their search for the remains of American servicemen still listed as missing in action. This spring a delegation from Hanoi will visit Hawaii to study maps showing presumed locations of downed U.S. planes. After more than 30 years of bureaucratic machinations and court litigation, 52 Filipinos last week were finally granted the U.S. citizenship promised to all aliens who joined the American armed forces during World...
...umpires-sporting white armbands and riding in Jeeps flying white pennants-clambered about the battlefield. Over field radios, commanders were told "You're dead," while "killed" vehicles were marked with yellow flags. There were, however, real casualties; in ground accidents and one mid-air collision, two American servicemen and six German civilians were killed...