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...sister-in-law, Mrs. Frankie Ford, whose husband has been missing in action since 1968, McLin researched the problems. He found that Florida laws provided for situations in which a spouse is dead, mentally incompetent or absent by his own volition. There was no category for absent U.S. servicemen. As a result, wives who wanted to transact important family business were often helpless if their husbands had full or partial title to the property involved...
...Project Appreciation repair a Gl's shattered limbs? No, of course not; but in a small way Project Appreciation is letting our servicemen know Americans do care...
Charles R. Nesson '60, professor of Law, petitioned President Nixon on August 13 to release three Air Force enlisted men imprisoned in Vietnam for refusing to carry weapons. Acting as president of the Lawyers Military Defense Committee--a group formed last year to give free legal representation to servicemen in Vietnam--Nesson asked the President to defer the three men's sentences during appeal of their convictions...
TREASURY SECRETARY JOHN CONNALLY, as head of the Cost of Living Council, has overall authority to wheedle, cajole, crack heads and otherwise employ his considerable political skills in imposing the freeze. He has moved briskly. When the Pentagon announced that certain servicemen's pay raises would go through on schedule, Connally called Deputy Defense Secretary David Packard and said: "You rescind those raises or I will." After Texas Governor Preston Smith declared that his state employees would receive their regular pay increases, Connally signed an order directing the Attorney General to see that Texas complied with the freeze...
Most of those polled felt that U.S. civilians in Viet Nam tended to be honest, courteous and industrious, with the exception of construction workers. Many praised U.S. military men for their hard work and sincerity. But servicemen were also criticized as "drunkards, haughty, licentious men who wore ridiculous clothes and seemed indifferent to accidents for which they were responsible...