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...third judge, Homer Ferguson, thought the Tonkin resolution totally beside the point. "Regardless of the resolution," he said, "the fact remains that we are at war." It is enough to know that hundreds of thousands of U.S. servicemen are in combat in Viet Nam. Just how many G.I.s make a war he did not say. Presumably, the number in 1964, when Anderson committed his crime, was more than enough...
...amid crackling static, and Seaboard World Airlines Flight 25 3 A was already 80 nautical miles north of its course. Moments lat er, Pilot Joseph Tosolini was radioing that intercepting MIG fighters were forcing him to land on Iturup, one of the Soviet Kurile Islands. For Tosolini, 214 U.S. servicemen bound for Viet Nam aboard Flight 253A and the crew of 16, the interrupted maiden flight of the brand-new giant DC-8 jetliner turned into 55 hours of bone-wearying imprisonment that had diplomats in Washington and Moscow on tenterhooks...
...countrymen fighting and working in South Viet Nam account for $62 million a year in sorely needed foreign-exchange earnings. And such pleasure haunts as Hong Kong and Bangkok enjoy a windfall-$100 million a year, all told-from rest-and-recreation visits by Viet Nam-based U.S. servicemen...
White-collar women are moving ahead at a slower pace. In the U.S., where 41% of all women work, the proportion of working women classified as professional and technical has dropped from 45% in 1940 to 37% today because G.I. Bill-educated ex-servicemen have moved into these fields in larger numbers. Women as a percentage of the total work force, in the same period, increased from 26% to 36% as more blue-collar women moved into the jobs such men might have held. Determined women are still finding new opportunities. Since women buy 45% of the liquor purchased...
...court a U.S. Air Force sergeant who had been in an argument with a Thai taxi driver; they slapped him in jail for five days until he agreed to pay a $50 fine. Says General Pra-phas Charusathien, strongman of the Bangkok regime: "There is no question that foreign servicemen are under the jurisdiction of Thai courts of law. Of course they...