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Happy Tears. Ronald Lockman, 23, the private who refused to go to war, announced his intentions at a San Francisco news conference the day he was scheduled to be processed for shipment, Sept. 13. "My fight is back home in the Philadelphia ghettos where I was born and raised," said Lockman, a Negro and a member of the militant leftist W.E.B. DuBois Club. "I will not go 10,000 miles away to be a tool of the oppressors of the Vietnamese people." A day later, Lockman was hustled to the stockade, after refusing to board a bus with 100 other...
After completing engineer training at Fort Hood, Texas, Smith, also 23, went home to Brownsville, Calif., on a 30-day leave in November 1965. At leave's end he phoned Fort Hood for further instructions, was told to report to Oakland Army Terminal Dec. 28 for shipment to Thailand. Then, days later, he received a telegram telling him to disregard the reporting date and await new orders "to follow." Obeying orders to the letter, Smith settled back to wait, meanwhile picking up a $130-a-week logging job. His wife Glenda Fay continued to receive her monthly $95.20 allotment...
Masterly Confusion. Two months ago, Chan set out from the Burma fields on his way to Laos with a caravan of 300 men and 200 pack horses carrying nine tons of opium. He had no intention of paying the $80,000 in tolls usually collected on a shipment of that size passing through the Chinese generals' territory. When the caravan reached the Mekong River and the Laotian border town of Ban Houei Sai, the Chinese irregulars were waiting...
...asbestos, had a vision of things to come. So it prepared for future problems by setting up a South African subsidiary called Southern Asbestos. Although the mineral still moves straight from Rhodesian mines to a Mozambique port without ever going through South Africa, the company simply supplies each shipment with a South African certificate of origin. Outgoing chrome is usually labeled South African as well and is bought in large quantities by the Japanese. Not long ago, says the Sunday Times, 20,000 tons of chrome ore arrived in Tokyo from "South Africa," and for the 27th time...
...simply not coming through. For at least four years, Washington repeatedly turned down Hussein's requests for some jet fighters. Not until Russia offered the King null at a bargain $70,000 per plane last year did the Administration finally decide to sell Hussein 36 F-104s. The shipment has yet to arrive. The Shah also complained that the U.S. has yet to deliver the two squadrons of F-4 Phantoms that were promised to Iran...