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...nevertheless, went ahead with plans to bring home 1,000 troops from Viet Nam by New Year's-chiefly noncombat technicians, many of whose duties are being assumed by Vietnamese. At Saigon airport last week, the initial 294 U.S.-bound servicemen, many happily bearing lipstick smears from Saigon sweeties, clambered aboard four C-135 jets. Present to see the first men off were U.S. General Paul D. Harkins and South Viet Nam's Defense Minister Lieut. General Tran Van Don. Said Don of the departing Americans: "They have shared our hardships and sorrows, and nothing can repay them...
Front & Center. On Monday, sunlight splashed the rotunda, and a million people lined the streets of Washington. Shortly before 11 a.m., nine servicemen slid the casket from its catafalque, bore it haltingly, laboriously down the 36 Capitol steps past the black-clothed ranks of John Kennedy's family. The drums began a muffled thunder. There was a gnashing of metal as the military men loaded it aboard the glistening black caisson, the same that carried the coffin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt 18 years...
...could recognize -Secret Service agents and bodyguards, scanning the crowd, rooftops, doorways and windows. The State Department alone had 250 agents; at least a dozen Secret Service men were always within a few yards of President Johnson. De Gaulle had ten guards of his own, and 4,324 servicemen and cops lined the route. With the events of the past few days, no one who watched that march could help fearing that another shot might break the hush. Indeed, there had been dozens of threatening phone calls, but there were no real scares...
...into effect July 1. The crime: robbing a bank at gunpoint. The punishment: 3½ years in prison, which is a gentler sentence than he would probably have received if he were found guilty by a U.S. military court. Pentagon spokesmen testifying before a Senate subcommittee reported that U.S. servicemen tried in foreign courts tend to get mild sentences. Japan has even built a special prison for U.S. prisoners, with much more comfortable accommodations than those provided for Japanese convicts...
Detectives and Secret Servicemen continued to question the suspect-but Lee Harvey Oswald defiantly denied any guilt. Nonetheless, the police charged him formally with the murder of the President. Then, on Sunday morning, as a huge phalanx of guards prepared to transfer Oswald from Police Headquarters to the Dallas County Jail, a man moved toward him, stabbed a revolver toward Oswald's abdomen and fired. About two hours later, 1:07 p.m., the prisoner was dead. Thus the world might never learn what had gone on in that strange mind that had driven him to assassination. There was, however...