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...obliged whenever its help was asked. Last week President Kennedy announced that the U.S. was rushing rice, corn, dried milk and other foodstuffs from U.S. surplus stocks to help feed 300,000 homeless Baluba tribesmen starving in remote Kasai province. Orders crackled from U.S. Air Force European headquarters in Wiesbaden, and an urgent airlift headed south. U.S. planes stopped at Nairobi, Salisbury and the Cameroun city of Garoua, picked up food pledged by other governments. On the way back, the planes would help haul out the Moroccan, U.A.R. and Guinean troops that the dissident politicians of Africa had ordered home...
...Possibly Wiesbaden is a very good duty station, (I have never been there) but your article leaves the general American public with the impression that we service people are living in the lap of luxury, and nothing could be further from the truth. Most duty stations are dull and drab and economically a hardship on the average G.I. Here is a picture of our plush living here at Misawa. It is of our off-base housing, which we call with deep affection B-Battery...
Permit me to be the first to nominate the character who crawled out from under a piece of brotchen just long enough to take a quick look at Wiesbaden and have the unmitigated gall to depict the true life of "Americans Abroad...
Your description (Dec. 5) of the Wiesbaden area is one-sidedly accurate. The other side is bigger and longer. Sure, there's an active social life. We must keep busy. Do you prefer that we exploit the reputation of American womanhood by engaging in quiet prostitution and Gasthaus lounging, or should we keep active in scouting, P.T.A., women's clubs and civic activities? The women's club I belonged to adopted a German orphanage; we delivered food to German refugees living in the basement of bombed-out buildings-so dirty that the average American woman would have...
...national security. They warn of a flight from the service by married men unwilling to be parted from their families, and predict that the first to go will be the expert technicians already tempted by high salaries and plentiful Levittowns back in the States. The good old days, when Wiesbaden village so overflowed with togetherness that 40% of its servicemen voluntarily extended the normal three-year tour of duty to four, seem coming to an end. But some of Wiesbaden's inhabitants find cause for optimism in the future's uncertainties. During a coffee break last week...