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...Viet Cong declared in Saigon that the North would not consider the U.S. withdrawal complete until the 825 U.S. soldiers on the Joint Military Commission and the 159 Marine guards who are to serve at the U.S. embassy are withdrawn along with the 5,249 other remaining American servicemen. Up to that point, the U.S. had planned to keep its JMC soldiers on hand in case the four-party commission agreed to continue functioning past the March 28 deadline. As for the P.O.W.s held in Laos, the North insisted they had not been part of the written agreement and were...
...first end, he sent a strong personal note to President Nixon opposing the December bombings of Hanoi; he established diplomatic relations with China, North Viet Nam and East Germany; he ordered the remaining Australian servicemen home from Viet Nam (and granted amnesty to those who had dodged the draft); he supported the concept of a neutralized zone in Southeast Asia; he announced he would petition the International Court of Justice in an attempt to stop French nuclear tests in the South Pacific. (A number of similar steps were taken by Fellow Laborite Norman Kirk, who won power in New Zealand...
Viet Nam veterans have been suffering for a long time-if only by comparison. The ex-servicemen of World War II got tuition paid in full at even the best private colleges plus a "subsistence allowance" of $50 a month for a veteran without dependents, which was adequate in the late 1940s. Veterans on today's G.I. Bill collect only $220 a month, which is enough to cover tuition at most state universities, but leaves little or nothing for living expenses...
...protecting and expanding the benefits of its largest and loudest constituency-the veterans of both world wars and Korea. Veterans' lobby groups also tend to favor older men. Lobbying has concentrated on increasing the already staggeringly expensive ($4.3 billion this year) military retirement plans, which benefit career servicemen...
Brandeis police, six carloads of state police, Israeli servicemen, and the American Secret Service collaborated on the fairly tight security for the event...