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Despite President Kennedy's announcement that all U.S. soldiers would leave South Vietnam in 1965, there are now 22,000 servicemen there, more than at any previous time. The death toll has reached 223; more Americans (21) died in action last month than in any other of the Vietnamese conflict. At first U.S. troops were only to serve as military advisors; then it was announced that Americans would return fire when fired upon; and this year it has become clear that in many instances military action is being initiated by Americans...
...greatest U.S. military loss occurred just two weeks ago when Viet Cong mortar fire killed four U.S. servicemen and destroyed or damaged twenty bombers at Bienhoa air force base, near Saigon. A few days after the shelling of Bienhoa, General Nguyen Khanh, former Premier and presently military chief of staff, reiterated what he considers the solution for South Vietnam's problems: that South Vietnam and the United States should attack North Vietnam...
Last week, not for the first time since U.S. servicemen arrived in Korea 19 years ago, the Korean mooses came under fire. In a letter distributed to 12,000 Lutheran pastors throughout the U.S., the director of an American service center in Seoul denounced "the age-old dangers of women and liquor" and concluded that "our young men aren't spiritually and morally ready for Korea." The Rev. Ernst W. Karsten, a mild-mannered Iowan of 59, charged that about 90% of the G.I.s in Korea consort with prostitutes regularly. "Many men have their steadies," Karsten reported. "Some...
...Joseph Kress, 44, a proud Navy mother in Dubuque, Iowa, walked into the Dubuque Telegraph-Herald newsroom with a little item for the paper's servicemen's column. She had a letter from her son, James J. Kress, 20, a fireman aboard the U.S. destroyer Richard S. Edwards, and she wanted Jimmy's friends to know where he was. The letter began: "Dear Mom and Dad: In case you haven't heard the names of those destroyers that were attacked in the Tonkin Gulf last Friday night, they were the R. S. Edwards and the Morton...
...estimated 35,000 eligible voters, Goldwater subcommittees are in operation in Vicenza, Verona, Leghorn and Naples, near U.S. military sites. At British market towns outside U.S. bases, the Democrats have parked decorated carts equipped with loud speakers playing Hello, Lyndon, hoping to catch the ear of U.S. servicemen and their wives on shopping tours...