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...mile Demilitarized Zone. To soften the impact of the U.S. withdrawals, Washington has promised the South Koreans $315 million annually over the next five years in aid and equipment to modernize the obsolete weaponry used by ROK (Republic of Korea) forces. South Korean pilots are already flying a new squadron of Phantoms, and a plant is being built to manufacture M-16 rifles. But the South Koreans, who have made anti-Communism into a state religion, have been further upset by the possibility of a diplomatic thaw between the U.S. and China. Most South Korean voters felt that Park...
...Walters now owns 765 acres of prime farmland around the towns of Hebron and Woodstock; today the land is valued at more than $1,000 an acre. Three homes, three barns, five machinery sheds, three feed lots and a dozen silos stand about the spread. Throw in a rumbling squadron of assorted machinery -tractors, trucks, combines and related equipment-plus the cattle and hogs Erv and his sons are fattening for market, plus the $100,000 worth of planting costs. Add it all up and the Walters appear to be worth about $1 million. Erv Walters wryly notes...
Crewcut, clear-eyed and firm of jaw, Colonel Gerald V. Kehrli had been a model Air Force officer for 28 years. In May 1970, he took command of a less-than-spirited air transport squadron at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airbase, and before long the unit was back at a peak of morale. "It was guys like Colonel Kehrli who gave you that go-go spirit," one of his former officers said last week. "He was the kind of man you really wanted to work...
...turned out, the squadron was high on Kehrli in more ways than one. In Saigon, a military court sentenced the colonel to three years in prison and fined him $15,000 not only for being an enthusiastic user of marijuana but also for passing it around to his men, often at pot parties in his quarters. At the colonel's trial, a young intelligence officer testified that Kehrli had even been a pot proselytizer at Saigon military officers' clubs. "Marijuana is a good thing," Kehrli told the officer during one conversation. "It allows me to understand...
This means of verification, however, had its limitations. Unlike in North Vietnam, reconnaissance missions were not flown after each strike. Rather, a given target would be photographed by jets of the 432nd tactical reconnaissance squadron once over a period of from two weeks to three months. Thus it was often most difficult to assess when a given strike had occurred, or who had been responsible for it. In addition, reconnaissance was rarely done on areas which had not been approved as targets...