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Students giving blood through the Phillips Brooks House Drive this spring will be able to request that their donation be sent to the American servicemen in South Vietnam...
...blood will be sent to South Vietnam in the form of gamma globulin which is injected into all servicemen to protect against an epidemic of infectious hepatitis. Whole blood will not be sent to South Vietnam...
...heroes of the Viet Nam war is not a man but a machine-a snub-nosed, whale-tailed airplane that looks as if it would be lucky to get off the ground. Officially designated the C-130 Hercules, it is known as the "Herky Bird" to thousands of U.S. servicemen in Viet Nam, and it provides them with the sustenance of life. The cargo-carrying Herky Bird works when monsoon rains keep supply ships offshore. It flies ammunition and chow to artillery units isolated by the Viet Cong, now moves 65% of the military air cargo inside road-shy South...
Last week the Pentagon had second thoughts. Under a year-old Army regulation, ex-servicemen who have been sent to prison for five years or more are ineligible for burial in a national cemetery. Thompson had received a three-year sentence for his 1949 conviction, jumped bail, was recaptured and sentenced to an additional four years. In all, he spent five years and one month in prison. With Thompson's ashes already at Arlington awaiting burial this week, the Army asked U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach to rule on the problem...
...refueling tanker over Spain's coast on Jan. 17. Three of the bombs landed on Spanish soil and were readily recovered. The fourth fell into the sea just short of Almeria. Fishermen quickly rescued the bomber's four survivors but not the bomb. Some 2,000 American servicemen from Spanish bases undertook the search. To be sure, none of the deadly, multimegaton nuclear-bomb cases was armed, and all were packaged in radiation-proof shells. But, just the same, everyone wanted all of them found...