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...most troublesome question, of course, is what role the Russian servicemen in Egypt would play. Most observers figure that Russian advisers and technicians would pull back to avoid incidents if Egypt decided to mount any kind of cross-canal raid. Less certain, however, is the status of the Russian pilots who are flying the most advanced jets that Moscow has shipped to Egypt. If the Israelis began sending their planes over the Egyptian interior, the Soviet pilots would almost certainly challenge them. But what if the Israelis avoided "deep penetration" raids, yet were giving the Egyptians such a beating that...
...said tonight that there are a number of reasons for this. One he said, is that a large number of sympathetic veterans have been unable to get off work or leave school. Another is the fact that the Pentagon has refused to supply the VVAW with the names of servicemen leaving Vietnam. As a result of this, he said, "the VVAW is forced to rely solely on word of mouth and the media," "It is really quite hard to get at the vets," he added...
...called because there are roughly as many Americans in Ethiopia at a military communications center near Asmara-1,600 servicemen and an equal number of dependents...
...military has tried to face up to these problems with Transition Program, a project to provide job training for servicemen before discharge. Because the program is open only to those with six months or more of active duty remaining, it has little appeal. An alternative is almost immediate discharge upon return from Viet Nam. Of the 5,000 overseas returnees arriving at Fort Dix each month, for example, all but a few hundred are discharged within 48 hours. As a result, only 12,000 men enrolled for the program last year...
...TURKEY, an ambitious plot was carried out by kidnapers who identified themselves as members of the Turkish People's Liberation Army-a previously unknown group probably related to a Maoist student organization called the Dev-genc (TIME, March 1). The kidnapers seized four U.S. servicemen near Ankara and demanded $400,000: otherwise, they said, their American prisoners would be executed by a firing squad...