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...effect, there was no one for her to sue. Italy is one of the 67 countries in which U.S. servicemen are governed by a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). Typically, U.S. officials retain jurisdiction over all persons subject to military law whenever their offenses are committed while performing their duty or against another American stationed in that country. The host country has jurisdiction over all other cases, but usually waives it even for serious offenses. Although SOFA provides U.S. tort liability when servicemen are on duty abroad, the .U.S. sailor who hit Mrs. Shapiro was off duty; although she could...
There is no doubt that military schools are highly efficient in training servicemen for specific tasks, partly because it is easier to keep a trainee interested in mastering a diesel engine than in shunning split infinitives. The services have been far ahead of public schools in the use of training films, overhead projectors, programmed instruction, individual audio aids, and closed-circuit television. Under McNamara, they have been pressured to prune all nonessential information from their training programs to increase efficiency-and the pruning works. When superfluous material was cut out of a communications repair course at Fort Knox, the rate...
...ammunition and petroleum port from which a pipeline will pump fuel to Korat airbase in northeast Thailand. The increased logistical flow will supply not only the dozen U.S. fighter-bomber squadrons now operating in Thailand, but also four additional squadrons due to arrive soon, raising the number of U.S. servicemen in Thailand to 30,000 by year's end. As the main funnel for the flow, the Sattahip sea-air complex will require thousands of U.S. personnel...
...mission is to support our own troops." After a rash of plastic surgery for cleft-palate victims won the nickname "Operation Harelip" for all U.S. compassionate services, the Army officially put aid to civilians on an "emergency only" basis, partly on the ground that noisy children were disturbing sick servicemen...
Rising Gloom. With 60% of the nation's commercial air transport grounded, problems of all kinds continued to grow. In California, servicemen returning from Viet Nam on combat leave found themselves stranded for up to 72 hours at Travis Air Force Base. As many as 100 at a time curled up to sleep on sofas or in makeshift barracks while they waited for hitchhikes aboard military planes passing through the base. Mail deliveries that normally move by air were slowed; shipments of everything from electronic equipment to exotic flowers were delayed for lack of air cargo space. Businessmen hitched...