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Conglomerate. Defense Minister Nguyen Van Vy may also lose his job because he founded the army's corporate empire in 1968, and has been running it ever since. Vy's vehicle was the Servicemen's Mutual Aid and Savings Fund (SMASF), which was financed by dunning every soldier 25? a month. Initially, Vy's goal was to encourage savings so that the soldiers would have some money to spend when mustered out. In theory, each army veteran was to collect all the SMASF money deducted from his paychecks, plus interest; similar payments were...
...conform to the Navy itself. Some 3.6% of naval officers are women. Shouldn't a similar percentage of Annapolis' entering class and graduates also be women? Shouldn't there at least be one?" Chaffee replied that U.S. law provided for the Navy to admit "sons" of servicemen killed in action, and he interpreted that narrow slice of law to limit the academy's general enrollment to men only. In addition, Chaffee argued, naval regulations prohibit women from attending Annapolis. Javits' reply: The law "simply provides that the Secretary of the Navy shall be in charge...
Along with Fellow Movie Star Donald Sutherland, Jane was leading a scraggly, 15-member troupe of entertainers called the Free Theater Associates. Formed last winter largely to produce antiwar programs for U.S. servicemen, the F.T.A. is a sort of counter-U.S.O. and its initials conveniently stand also for "F- the Army," a slogan familiar to all overseas G.l.s. "Ours is a political vaudeville created out of materials found in G.I. newspapers," says Sutherland. In mid-November the group began a five-week holiday tour with a show near Fort Dix, N.J. From there it went on to play near...
...week's end, Jane was undaunted. "This definitely is going to be the main part of my life," she said. "I'm sure the remembrance of the evenings, and of how many of their fellow G.l.s were there, will come back to many servicemen at their moment of decision in the future...
...papers that explicitly indicated that the Department of Defense had a policy restricting the number of blacks sent to bases in Iceland. He said that the Government had reached a verbal agreement with Iceland at that nation's request. By 1963, the Icelandic government accepted two married black servicemen into the country, and the number has now increased to about 40. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird could only plead that he had no control over previous administrations and that no such understandings now exist...