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...ludicrous that the President and his Administration still hold dear the bugaboo of Communism to perpetuate our ridiculous role of the world's policemen! I refuse to allow my sympathy to be aroused by the sadly gory pictures in TIME, but remember instead the pictures of our American servicemen who lost their lives in the war we never should have fought in Viet...
...prodding and proposing of new laws: Neier wrote his just-published book Dossier to "help quicken the movement" for legal curbs on both private and Government information gatherers. The chubby young executive director has also developed specialists who push for the rights of such groups as homosexuals, minors and servicemen-sometimes even before they organize in their own behalf...
...price really have to be paid? Debate will continue for years over whether the American role in the war could not have been ended considerably sooner on much the same terms as finally resulted. During the four years that the negotiations were under way, 15,000 American servicemen died in Indochina (of a total of 46,000 since the war began in 1961) and 100,000 were wounded...
...anniversary evoked memories for many millions who never got near Normandy. All across the U.S. that Tuesday people had offered prayers. Parents and wives of servicemen, whatever their personal fears, could at last believe that the ordeal's end was beginning. Somehow the event seems even more distant than 30 years. There have been other wars, changing alliances, crises. None has stimulated the exultant unity of which D-day was the ensign. Hope, the real victor at Normandy and later World War II battlefields, went on to suffer a succession of blows that only now may be relenting...
...Scotch whisky. Taking trips to the Caribbean, Mexico, Europe and Africa, they make up one of the fastest growing segments of the travel industry. Trans World Airlines offers special black tours of Europe that feature trips to nonwhite communities, visits to African museums, and cocktail parties with black servicemen and expatriates...