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Laird admitted that he had planned to keep the P.O.W. operation secret but finally announced it to avoid a "credibility problem." He insisted: "This was not a failure." If not, the word has meanings unknown to the laymen and to the servicemen who carried out the mission...
...raid left the U.S. worse off than it was before. With Hanoi surely tightening the defenses of the P.O.W. camps, further rescue attempts will be vastly more difficult?but President Nixon has already hinted that he has just that in mind. At his Thanksgiving dinner for injured servicemen, speaking to Marine Sergeant George Lowry, the President likened the situation to a football game. "Sometimes you have to take them by surprise," he said. "You run a play and it fails. Then you turn around and call the same play again because they aren't expecting...
...Shea Bill, passed last Spring, stated that the Federal government has no right to send Massachusetts servicemen to fight abroad for more than 60 days if Congress does not declare...
...boats and barges of his "muddy water" navy. While he plotted overall strategy to check enemy shipping and water-borne infiltration, he gave junior officers and chiefs considerable leeway with tactics for their own vessels. He also heard out their complaints and came away convinced that today's servicemen have "an absolute right to be treated better than they have been -they have volunteered for an unpopular...
...automation. According to a recent survey by the University of Michigan, one-half of all industrial workers worry continually about their job security, and one-quarter are concerned about their safety; 14,000 were killed in on-the-job accidents last year, more than the number of U.S. servicemen who died in Viet Nam in 1969. Fully 28% have no medical coverage, 38% no life insurance and 39% no pension beyond Social Security...