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...reform of military life is not a luxury or even merely an idea whose time has come, mirroring the changes in the rest of U.S. society. It is a necessity. Largely because of the Viet Nam War, the prestige of the military is plummeting. Many servicemen, including cadets and midshipmen from West Point and Annapolis, try to hide their military connections when on leave among their peers. There is even a wig market in Annapolis where middies can acquire hirsute camouflage. Re-enlistment rates have dropped to their lowest levels since 1955. Barely 31% of servicemen of all ranks...
Simultaneous Sessions. Servicemen still stop in for "Mother" or "Death Before Dishonor" tattoos, but Tuttle's place is considered neutral ground when it comes to sociological or political disputes. He still marvels at the congeniality of two recent customers who chatted and chuckled together through simultaneous tattoo sessions. One, a black man in a beret, was having a panther tattooed on his back. The other walked out with a red and blue Confederate flag unfurled on his white shoulder...
...cost of nearly $1 per citizen, the 1970 census counted 204,765,770 Americans, including nearly 1,600,000 servicemen and civilians now living abroad. The population has grown some 24 million since the 1960 calculation. But the increase-13.3%-was the lowest in any decade since the low birthrate days of the Depression. For one thing, those relatively fewer babies born in the '30s are now of the child-bearing generation of the '60s; a trend toward smaller families helped to diminish the sum further. It was enough to encourage watchers of the population clock. They...
...close to Calley at both slaughter sites, had talked freely about his and Calley's role at My Lai when the case surfaced a year ago. But now Meadlo was claiming Fifth Amendment protection against selfincrimination. The Government has not attempted to prosecute any of the servicemen now out of the Army. The prosecution offered Meadlo a grant of immunity signed by Major General Orwin Talbott, commander of Fort Benning. Meadlo's lawyer argued that the writ was worthless, that his client might conceivably be tried by some special tribunal, U.S. or foreign, for war crimes...
...prisoners in both North and South Viet Nam. A recent list had marked as dead six Americans whose fates had not been known for certain. That report was sent from Hanoi on Nov. 6 to Mrs. Cora Weiss, co-chairman of the antiwar Committee of Liaison with Families of Servicemen Detained in North Viet Nam. Mrs. Weiss has given Washington the names of 22 such Americans in all. None of the information she has received from Hanoi indicates whether the men died in captivity or earlier, when their aircraft were knocked down, and she bitterly complained last week that...