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...adviser's" role is not easy. Last week five more U.S. servicemen died in Viet Nam-two Army officers and an Air Force captain killed when an electric mine was detonated under their Jeep; an Army major shot dead by guerrillas in broad daylight in a village ten miles from Saigon; another major caught by machine-gun fire that raked his Vietnamese Ranger battalion. The roll of American dead would grow at a swifter pace as reinforcements arrived. Said a senior U.S. official in Saigon dryly: "When you put more people in a zone traversed by enemy bullets, your...
...given the right to return fire if necessary. American pilots began flying combat missions, carrying fascinated Vietnamese "students" in the rear cockpits. So reluctant was the Pentagon to call ii a war that it took a presidential executive order for U.S. servicemen in Viet Nam to receive the Purple Heart and other medals...
...psychological strangle hold on the capital, a sprawling, pseudo-sophisticated city of more than 1,000,000, which has never seemed to take the war very seriously. But terrorism has increased, and people get off the sidewalks quickly at night, even the streetwalkers. Last week five U.S. servicemen and 15 Vietnamese were wounded when a bomb was heaved into Saigon's Shadows Bar while the dance floor was crowded with rhumba dancers. The day before, a man on a motorcycle tossed a grenade at six American advisers standing at a Saigon bus stop, missing them but injuring four Vietnamese...
...Passed, in the Senate, a $207 million pay increase for military personnel. Most servicemen will get 2.5% pay hikes, but officers with less than two years of service will get an 8.5% raise. House passage is virtually certain...
Midst laurels stood: Comedian Bob Hope, 61, given the National Citizenship Award of the Military Chaplains Association for his "tireless, unselfish efforts" to bring "warmth and cheer by personal visits" to U.S. servicemen; Composer Benjamin Britten, 50, winner of the New York Music Critics' Circle awards in two categories-operatic (for A Midsummer Night's Dream) and choral (War Requiem); Thomas J. Watson Jr., 50, chairman of International Business Machines Corp., elected president of the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America (he joined his first troop in Short Hills, N.J., on the day in 1927 that...