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When Vinson retired in 1965, Rivers, as the committee's ranking Democrat, came into his own as chairman. Upon taking office, he doubled the Johnson Administration's request for a servicemen's pay raise and sponsored a bill requiring congressional review of any cutbacks in military facilities. In one of Rivers' first encounters with the former Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, the Pentagon chief tried to patronize the committee, as he had under Vinson's chairmanship. Rivers finally breathed drowsily: "But Mr. Secretary, Carl Vinson's gone. He's gone...
They suggested that the indictments are an effort of the Nixon administration to "punish" Massachusetts for the Shea bill which exempted Massachusetts servicemen from duty in Vietnam. The Supreme Court refused to hear the Massachusetts case...
...longest U.S. war, and this week another grim and numbing milestone arrives. It is from Jan. 1, 1961, that the official log of American military dead in Southeast Asia is kept, and thus with the New Year, the war enters its second decade for Americans. Over 53,000 servicemen have died, 44,167 through "action by hostile forces," 8,990 from other causes in the combat theater. They are irretrievable, but those Air Force, Navy and Army fliers still held prisoner in North Viet Nam are not. Hanoi last week released a list of P.O.W.s, briefly raising hopes that...
...closer look reveals shabbiness. Isla Vista resembles a hip version of the towns near military bases thrown up to house and often gouge transient servicemen's families. Built like cheap motels, some apartments come with peeling paint and broken plumbing...
...Needs Hollywood? The Government's reduction in war spending accounted for much of the new unemployment. Labor Secretary James D. Hodgson points out that at least one-third of the rise in joblessness during the past 18 months came from defense cutbacks: net reductions of 500,000 servicemen, 130,000 Defense Department civilian employees and 1,500,000 defense workers. Stubborn pockets of high unemployment in Seattle (10.9%), Wichita, Kans. (9.3%), and Bridgeport, Conn. (7.1%) bear witness to the disrupted careers of Americans who once got high pay in high-technology industries. Some have moved to Europe or Mexico...