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...just what that means-which is probably the intent. The agreement will allow the U.S. to continue to use three airbases in Spain (at Saragossa, Moron and Torrejón) and a Polaris submarine and Mediterranean fleet-support base at Rota. The bases are manned by 10,000 U.S. servicemen. In return, the U.S. will provide Franco with at least $300 million worth of military aid, including 36 phased-out F-4C Phantom jet fighter-bombers...
...renowned war correspondent for Scripps-Howard newspapers; of abdominal cancer; in Washington, D.C. Why always a war? someone once asked Lucas, and he replied: "It is one of the few circumstances in life I have found where the majority of people I deal with are selfless." Untiringly he accompanied servicemen through eight World War II Pacific landings, 26 months in Korea, 18 months with the French in Indochina, and then Viet Nam. Though he was known for his terse, highly personal accounts, his most memorable piece was a 1954 off-the-record interview with Douglas MacArthur, printed in 1964 after...
...Unemployment will also rise. No one can yet foresee a business expansion vigorous enough to provide employment for all the new job seekers. They include growing numbers of youngsters reaching working age, women who think that their place is not" only in the home, and servicemen returning from Viet Nam. Though they speak for different schools of economics, TIME Board of Economists Members Walter Heller and Beryl Sprinkel join in predicting a rise in the jobless rate from 4.7% in June to 51% or 6% by late...
Spiro Agnew T shirts, Spiro Agnew watches modeled on the Mickey Mouse design (TIME, July 6). Instead of fuming, Agnew co-opted the satire: advance payments and royalties from the manufacturers will go to a charity supporting American Indian children and to an organization of families of American servicemen taken prisoner or missing in Southeast Asia. "The real reason I'm here," Agnew joked on the Tonight Show, "is that the other night I saw Mickey Mouse on television, and I'm here to ask for equal time." Agnew is getting plenty of equal time: he wrote...
...best way to determine what the people of South Viet Nam want is by the electoral process. We have no intention of imposing a solution." Rogers also brought Thieu a warm personal letter from President Nixon promising $100 million to improve the housing and rations of South Vietnamese servicemen and noting that Thieu's forces have proved "fully capable of shouldering the tasks of the substantial numbers of men we have withdrawn...