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...this more welcome than the man directly responsible for the U.S. military effort in Viet Nam: Army General William C. Westmoreland, 50, commander of the 23,500 American servicemen in South Viet Nam and senior U.S. military adviser to South Vietnamese forces. "The war has quite obviously moved into another stage," said Westmoreland in visible relief. "Now the rules of war have changed, and policymakers in Hanoi are confronted with the necessity of balancing their resources against the damage they may suffer. They've got to take a look down that long road and decide whether they really want...
...killings brought to 32 the number of Filipinos slain on U.S. bases since 1952. Under the U.S.-Philippine 99-year military-base treaty, American courts-martial have jurisdiction over U.S. servicemen, whether their transgressions are committed while on duty or off. This angers many Filipinos, who feel that Filipino courts should try off-duty offenders-and Washington has in fact indicated that it is willing to make concessions on this point...
Erie Stanley Gardner might call it The Case of the Shrinking Celebrity. Three times in the past year, TV's Perry Mason, Raymond Burr, 47, has slipped into South Viet Nam, visited some 8,000 U.S. servicemen stationed in remote areas, sometimes with Viet Cong shells bursting near by, and issued no publicity about it to boost his ratings. He jotted down the names of thousands of servicemen whose relations he called up for a personal report when he got back. Burr hobbled through his most recent Jeep-and-helicopter round last month despite a painfully pinched leg nerve...
...professors who volunteer to spend three to six months at the Ellsworth Air Force Base, working under Resident Director Robert E. Hastings, 35, an Ohio State assistant professor and former Air Force ground crew chief. No diploma mill, it offers the same courses and requires the same standards from servicemen as from the civilians back in Ohio. The chief difference is the academic schedule, which has to fit the students' erratic hours. The library at Minuteman U. is open day and night, all week. The students attend classes, between duty days, in two low white buildings overlooking snow-dusted...
...servicemen have been killed in that Vietnamese war in which their country still does not admit to being an official combatant. Last week, the White House announced that a Medal of Honor had been awarded to Army Special Forces Captain Roger Hugh C. Donlon for "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity" in action against the Viet Cong...