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...long been believed that experimentation with heroin is an irrevocable act that leads eventually to addiction and the criminal acts necessary to support the expensive habit. Thus it has also been assumed that the tens of thousands of U.S. servicemen who used the drug in Viet Nam have returned home as addicts, increasing the proportions of what was already a national heroin epidemic. But last week the Defense Department released a study that seemed to undermine these assumptions...
With little fanfare, Ervin has used his chairmanships to advance individual liberties. He inspired the revised Uniform Code of Military Justice, claiming that servicemen were subject to arbitrary discipline rather than justice. He pushed through a bill preventing any Indian tribal council from depriving an Indian of his constitutional rights. Ervin led a reform of the bail system, giving judges the power to release suspects too poor to pay bail but likely to appear for trial. He secured passage of a bill limiting the use of lie-detector tests in screening federal employees...
...took 19 flights to lift out the 2,500 American servicemen who still remained in the country on the last day. At about 5:20, a chipper North Vietnamese colonel stationed at the rear cargo ramp of a hulking U.S. Air Force C-141 transport presented a bamboo scroll painted with a Hanoi pagoda scene to an embarrassed American sergeant, whom he thought to be the last departing American. Moments later, Army Colonel David Odell, the Tan Son Nhut base commander, shouldered through the crowd and stepped to the boarding ramp; he had been having a final glass of champagne...
After four years of being urged to stay out of Viet Nam's larger cities, there they were: the last U.S. servicemen, buzzing about Saigon on driver-pedaled cycles, flirting with bar girls, buying souvenirs and generally staging the biggest shopping, sex and sightseeing spree ever seen in the city...
...carrying Odell and 55 other departing servicemen was airborne. Outside the Tan Son Nhut gates, a crowd of newly unemployed Vietnamese base workers were busy hawking chairs, tables and canned goods that had been freshly looted from a G.I. mess hall. It was not an inappropriate finale; the last days of the U.S. military presence in Viet Nam were one great, giddy scramble. TIME Correspondent David DeVoss reports...