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Vol. 124, No. 1 January 1988 ARTICLE s THE MEANING OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT

..." "Congress shall make no laws . doesn't mean what we think it means. By M. Stanton Evans 12 ROTC COMES MARCHING BACK Old-fashioned patriotism sparks an ROTC revival on campus. By Oliver StarrJr. 14 HOW TO BUY A GOOD USED CAR Knowledge and patience are the best weapons against shady dealers. By Paul Martin and Dennis 0 'Brien 16

DON'T LOSE SLEEP OVER INSOMNIA Simple self-help measures can help you fall asleep faster. By Edward Edelson 18

THE PHILIPPINES: DEMOCRACY UNDER THE GUN The Philippine ship of state cannot survive without a strong, loyal military. 22 VIGNETTES OF COURAGE Gallantry over the Meuse-Argonne and heroism in the Ardennes. By Vernon Pizer 26

THE NIGHT FREEDOM FAILED Twice denied U.S. asylum, the Soviet defector was whisked away and never seen again. By Philip C. Clarke 28

CHILD WELFARE FOUNDATION: FOUNDATION WITH A FUTURE

The Legion takes steps to combat the social and physical ills that befall the youngpeople ofAmerica. 31 HARDSHIP DUTY AT HOME Too many U.S. military families today live in substandard housing. By Phyllis Zauner 34

THOSE MILLION-DOLLAR DUCKS Prestige and riches await winners of the duck-stamp contests. By Gary Turbak 36 BATTLE OF THE SUBS Diesel subs are cheaper to make, but not one can shake Soviet sonar. By Steve Salerno 38 DEPARTME NTS BIG ISSUES Should The Congress Move To Restore The Draft? 10

LETTERS 4 VETERANS UPDATE 40 VETERANS ALERT 50

COMMANDER'S MESSAGE 6 LEGION NEWS BRIEFS 43 PARTING SHOTS 80

DATELINE WASHINGTON 8 VETERANS ADVISER 48

COVER Anti-Americanism in the Philippines. Photo by JB PictureslMelvyn Calderon

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Current crime statis- There still are 15 states that do not have Ido L. Turri tics warn us that laws protecting children." Cheektowaga, N.Y. about 83 percent of Walsh said some states are beginning American children to register sex offenders. California, for under the age of 12 example, has 64.000 registered sex of- Communism will be sex victims fenders, which permits law-enforcement I can hardly compliment and con- or targets at least agencies to keep track of them. "The gratulate you adequately on the article once in their lives, little people out there are counting on us "The Lie of Communism" (November). that one of every 12 help them." to To me, the philosophy of Ayn Rand is women will be a vic- Many children will get the kind of help not simply a castigation of communism, tim or an intended victim of rape, and they need, thanks to The American although it certainly is that. It is a pene- that one of every 133 Americans will be Legion Child Welfare Foundation fund murdered. trating critique of the social, welfare- drive that kicks off this month. (See "If violence against Americans by type programs of which we seem to story, page 31.) Americans is our way of life today, it's have more each week. "We need $1 million to help develop time we changed that way of life," said J. Arthur Curtiss and sustain programs that promote the John Walsh, president of the Adam Walsh Lincoln, Neb. wholesome development of children and Child Resource Center in Florida. that protect them from alco- Walsh, who travels the country to youths, and sex abuse and other such This excellent story lays bare a re- stump for stronger laws protecting holism, drugs, Nat'l Cmdr. John P. "Jake" markable resemblance to the direction women and children from the ravages of ills," said counting on you to do crime, praised American Legion posts Comer. "And we're in which our nation has begun to move what is right to help America's children." and departments for lobbying state legis- since World War II. It should be required latures for laws to prevent the exploita- As Comer put it: "America's children reading for our Senate and Congress. tion and sexual abuse of women and may not be 100 percent of our popula- Royal R. Redmond children, particularly children. tion, but they are 100 percent of our New Port Richer, Fla. "The real battle to protect our children future." Your contributions to the CWF must be waged on the state level," Walsh will help ensure a healthy and whole- said. "The quality of the lives of our some future for our children. Please Minimum Wage children vary from state to state. Some help. Please give what you can. Should we raise the minimum wage states are good; some states are bad. The Editors (November)? I say no. These high

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An Extraordinary Collection Of Music You'll Always Love Big Band wages are killing the farmers. We can't even buy our own American-made trac- tors because of high labor costs. Oliver Hagg Memories Salina, Kan; ^From the (&fl3mfl&Ba || 50 Original Sen. Ted Kennedy labels raising the minimum wage "the single most impor- Super Hits anti-poverty step we can take," tant Great despite the fact that Richard L. Lesher, By The president of the Chamber of Commerce Of The Most Stars Of Yesterday of the United States, notes that every No music in our history has ever given 10 percent increase in the minimum Famous us so much pleasure as the never-equal- wage results in a 1 percent increase in Records led recording classics of the Big Band unemployment. Years! And now you can enjoy again the I Daniel John Sobieski Ever Made most popular records ever made by the Chicago, III. most famous and most loved big bands and singing stars of those Golden Years. 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JANUARY 1988 5 Commander's message

HELP US MAKE A BETTER WORLD FOR OUR CHILDREN

RECENTLY returned from proud of what we have accomplished. my second journey to But much more remains to be done.

Central America in less As your National Commander, I have

than six months. I made pledged to America's youths a commit- the trip to assess progress ment to their welfare. In accepting my n toward peace in that troub- responsibility in San Antonio a few

led region, and to try to months ago, I set the goal of raising $1 understand what the future million for The American Legion Child may hold for Nicaragua Welfare Foundation. With that money in under the Sandinistas. My report will hand, the foundation can continue to appear in the March issue. fund the research and education pro- But for now, as the holiday season grams that are so vital to our youths. comes to a close and we begin the im- Children do not make up 100 percent portant work of a new year, I must share of our population, but they make up 100 with you an impression that has percent of our future. You can help us lingered with me since my return. make a better future for them by send- Every nation that hopes to survive ing your contribution to The American and prosper in the 21st century can pin Legion Child Welfare Foundation today. such hopes only on its young. It is es- You can help ensure that funds al- sential to instill its for every nation Nat' I Cmdr. John P. "Jake" Comer ways will be available for the important values and beliefs in its children; it is programs that the foundation supports. equally essential for every nation to A special section in this issue (p. 31) protect its young from anything that women of The American Legion and outlines the tremendous work of the would impede the transfer of responsi- Auxiliary have demonstrated over the foundation and describes its ac- bility from one generation to the next. years. We have a long history of com- complishments. Although it has been in To those who rule in totalitarian states, mitment to young Americans. We have business for more than 33 years, its that means emphasis on the former; to been generous in our support, forward- work is just beginning. Indeed, so long us, it means equal emphasis on both. looking in our planning and comprehen- as there are children to serve, its work

I have seen, firsthand, how the San- sive in our establishment of programs. never can be finished. dinista government in Nicaragua im- Our concerns on behalf of children and Take the enclosed self-addressed en- poses its values and beliefs on its young youths go beyond nurturing traditional velope, and send $10, $15 or whatever people. From textbooks that teach values and instilling democratic ideals. you can afford. I'm counting on your grade-school children arithmetic by We have taken it upon ourselves to pro- support. I know that America's veterans adding and subtracting weapons of war, tect our young people from abuse and will come through for America's to the relentless flow of youths sent to exploitation, to assist in the eradication children. Eastern Europe for a communist educa- of diseases that rob our children of their When we ourselves were young, we tion, I have seen the Sandinistas' com- very lives, and to provide the educa- donned uniforms and took up arms so mitment to a future secured by Marxist tional opportunities that can help them that our children, and our children's indoctrination and a belief in the in- realize their potentials. We can be very children, might be spared the tyranny evitability of war. But I also have seen and deprivation that come with the loss the poverty, disease and despair that of freedom. Around the world — in- characterize the day-to-day existence of deed, in our own hemisphere — other most Nicaraguan children. I have come sons and daughters are not so fortunate. to believe that the government's com- Let us, by our example and our con- mitment to their well-being is limited, tinued unselfishness, set a new standard cynical and contingent only on its own by which the world judges one genera- interests. tion's commitment to the next.

I thank God that such is not the case We need $1 million to keep on helping in our country, and I thank God for the our children and youths. I'm counting concern and generosity the men and on you. They're counting on you.

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Dateline Washington

students in our public schools, our historic and cultural pasts NATO Crisis have died out. Such is the conclusion of a National Endow- ment for the Humanities study. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, bulwark of the "The culprit is our educational process," the report con- Western allies against Soviet military expansion in Europe cludes, "the belief that we can teach our children how to think for the past four decades, is likely to undergo a midlife crisis without troubling them to learn anything worth thinking in coming months. about; the belief that we can teach them how to understand The raging debate over the reduction of intermediate-range the world in which they live without conveying to them the nuclear missiles, and short- and long-range missiles as well, events and ideas that have brought it into existence." has raised the specter of Europe being overwhelmed by superior Soviet tanks and conventional forces. Western allies are unhappy about such a possibility. Another Susan? Meanwhile, some Americans want the United States to Here we go again — several lawmakers on Capitol Hill are bring all or some of our 300,000 soldiers back from West trying to persuade their colleagues to give up greenbacks for Germany and other countries on the Continent. Other voices one-dollar coins. A bill that would replace the paper dollar in Europe — especially in Spain, Greece and Portugal — are with a metal one has been introduced in the House. loudly demanding that "Yankees Go Home." Supporters believe that the new coin will be welcomed because of the increasing demands of vending and fare Operation 'Flipper' machines.

Out of its array of secret weapons, the Pentagon has The U.S. Treasury issued the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin shipped dolphins to the Persian Gulf, where they are par- in 1979, but it failed to gain popularity with the public. ticipating in Navy mine-sweeping operations. Among the reasons given for its demise was that the dollar The Pentagon has acknowledged that five of the cetacean coin was too often confused with a quarter and that $1 bills mammals, trained for underwater surveillance and detection, continued to be issued in competition with the coin dollars. were requested by Navy commanders in the gulf. Informed Backers note that other countries, including Canada, sources said the dolphins have been taught simply to find the already successfully use dollar coins. The Canadian coin, for mines, not to explode them. example, is gold-color.

Along with its many electronic-weapon developments, the Navy has been conducting research on dolphins, porpoises, Day Care For Elderly whales and seals for the past 25 years. The findings are deep- sea secrets. Looking beyond catastrophic health coverage. Congress is considering developing day-care centers for the elderly as an Where The Men Are extension of the nation's Medicare program. Supported by more than 90 members of the House and a Census Bureau statistics generally are dry. but there's a hint bloc of senators, legislation in both chambers is aimed at of romantic possibilities in the agency's 1986 population providing a variety of services that would keep senior citizens estimates. at home, and out of hospitals and nursing homes. According to the bureau, women who are seeking spouses "We cannot afford to wait," said Sen. John Melcher of will find men to spare out West. Men outnumber women in Montana, a sponsor of the measure. Alaska, Hawaii, North Dakota. Wyoming and Nevada. In Our aging population is already moving into the octoge- Idaho, the sexes are evenly matched. narian range, and one of every five octogenarians requires

In all 50 states, the males of the species are in the majority considerable help. Among all aged, it is estimated that 4.6 up to age 18; from age 19 to 44, the females predominate in million already are functionally impaired and need help if more than half of the states. At age 65 and over, the women they are not to be consigned to institutional care. Today, there exceed the men everywhere in the United States except are about 1.300 adult-day-care centers operating around the Alaska. country. Thousands more are needed. The oldest population resides in Florida, where the median Proponents of the legislation maintain that the day-care age is 36, compared with 31.7 for the nation as a whole. The centers would not only lower Medicare costs in the long run,

youngest citizens live in Utah, where the median age is 25.5. but also would provide for kinder, more-effective treatment of sick and disabled older Americans. Students Fail Past Quote Of The Month Every schoolchild knows that George Washington led the American forces in the Revolutionary War. Right? No- "The members of the armed forces have been compelled to many don't. Two-thirds of our 17-year-olds are unable to make greater economic sacrifices, and every other kind of place the Civil War within the correct half-century; more can't sacrifice, than the rest of us, and are entitled to definite action " identify the Magna Carta. Most never heard of Dante and to take care of their special needs. Chaucer, or of Whitman and Melville. For all too many Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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SHOULD CONGRESS MOVE TO RESTORE THE DRAFT?

Rep. Robert G. Torricelli, D-N.J. Rep. Frank Horton, R-N.Y.

At a congressional hear- At first glance, the concept ing several years ago, I of mandatory national serv- asked Defense Secretary YES NO ice seems to be a good one. Caspar Weinberger about legislation I It evokes images of patriotism, duty to was proposing that would institute a system country and working for the benefit of of universal national service, including a your fellow Americans. But in giving the military component. Weinberger replied idea closer scrutiny, I believe that man- that the volunteer Army was just fine and datory national service is costly and un- that any consideration of wider military necessary make-work that is not in the service was unnecessary. When I asked whether his conclu- best interests of either our country or its people. sion was based on a review of costs and benefits, he said that Mandatory service would severely disrupt the lives of no review was available. young men and women at a time when they must make

I don't believe we can close off options that easily. Mili- critical decisions about their futures. The work they would tary strength isn't measured by spending, but by procurement do, much of which currently is handled by public employees and the quality of personnel. While total military spending in or volunteers, would be artificially created merely for the the United States and the Soviet Union might be comparable, sake of adding millions of "workers." And if any exceptions we spend more than 40 percent of our defense budget on to the program are made, there arises a clear possibility of personnel, while the Soviets dedicate less than 10 percent. favoritism, creating an inequitable and unfair situation The options for dealing with military personnel require- similar to the draft of the 1960s and early 1970s. ments are limited. In the era of tight budgets, defense spend- As for the military, let us not be deceived. With the ad- ing will not enjoy the rapid growth that it did at the beginning vanced technology of today's armed forces, we need well- of the decade. Another issue is demographics. The Census trained, well-educated and well-equipped forces. Today's Bureau predicts that by 1995, the number of American all-volunteer armed forces offer a credible first line of youths between the ages of 18 and 24 will have declined defense for our nation. nearly 20 percent from the 1985 level. Supporters of national programs said they believe that

I believe that one answer to this challenge is universal such a policy would instill a sense of patriotism in young national service. Legislation I've prepared would require Americans. We need not enact a program that would cost every American between the ages of 18 and 25 to give one billions of dollars each year just to engender a national pride year of service to the nation in either the Peace Corps, the that already exists. When needed, America's youths have

Job Corps, the Coast Guard or the armed forces. responded quickly, responsibly and effectively. I know that

The ability of this generation to borrow and spend the fact from personal experience. I was called to duty in World national wealth may be limited, but our people represent a War II, and I fought with other young Americans in both reservoir of talent that we haven't begun to apply. North Africa and Italy.

This nation and its latest generation need to be challenged. In America today, 84 million Americans age 13 and over National service builds communities and offers young volunteer each year for non-profit organizations and neigh- people the chance to grow, contribute and belong. It's a borhood groups, not because they have to, but because they simple concept: There are both opportunities and obligations want to. It is this spirit of volunteering and compassion that in American life. makes America — and American citizens — leaders in the The question remains less whether the young will respond world. to the challenge than whether our leaders will have the The case for mandatory national service remains inconclu- courage, confidence and wisdom to offer it. This generation sive and uncompelling. Such a program would be divisive, has failed so far. National controversial, cumbersome, service is an opportunity to YOUR OPINION COUNTS, TOO costly, ineffective and not in renew our bonds with the anyone's best interest. We Senators and congressmen are interested in constituent view- and to estab- can take pride in the record community, points. You may express your views by writing The Honorable (name), lish a time when all of us U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510, or The Honorable (name), U.S. of America's youths. They can help build and House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. 20515. will respond if their service strengthen our nation. is needed, as always.

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Photos courtesy of Bettmann Archive. Congress Authorized Prayer Henry, were demanding it). Members How debated the meaning of the language, and the legislators indicated by their

contemporaneous actions what it did

and didn't prohibit. This record makes it crystal clear that the current view of the THE MEANING OF THE matter is utterly without foundation. Thus, to take the most startling case in point, the House of Representatives, with Madison acting as floor manager, passed what was to become the First FIRST AMENDMENT Amendment (then designated as the Third) on Sept. 24, 1789 — accepting Our Founding Fathers' actions seem to contradict conference modifications of language originally proposed by Fisher Ames. Court's interpretation of the First the Supreme The very next day, it passed a resolution Amendment that prohibits school prayer. calling for a national day of prayer and thanksgiving — which is the legal origin of our current holiday. The language of this resolution reads, in full: By M. Stanton Evans "Resolved, that a joint committee of both houses be directed to wait upon the President of the United States to request EPARATION of church that he recommend to the people of the and state under the First United States a day of public thanks- Amendment has become giving and prayer to be observed by a pervasive theme of our acknowledging, with grateful hearts, political debates and legal the many signal favors of Almighty controversies. God, especially by affording them an This was, for instance, a opportunity peaceably to establish a major issue in the wrangle Constitution of government for their over Daniel Manion, who safety and happiness." had the temerity to support a bill in the This resolution is doubly significant

Indiana legislature permitting the post- since it not only called for a national ing of the Ten Commandments in the day of prayer, but also used language schools. It was the gravamen of the about the "signal favors of Almighty Louisiana creation-evolution case settled God" that, under current readings, is by the Supreme Court. It is the source of supposedly barred by the First Amend- loud alarm concerning the involvement ment. (Indeed, this language is virtu- of the "Christian right" in politics. VISIONARY — James Madison voiced ally identical to that in the non-denomi- concern over the amendment's clarity. The common thread of these and national regents' prayer in New York countless other disputes concerning State, struck down by the Supreme prayer in the schools, Christmas scenes tions then applied against the states. Court in 1962.) in public settings, treatment of religion A generation after the prayer rulings Obviously, if the very people who in textbooks, etc. , is the notion that the were handed down, this construction is wrote and adopted the First Amendment First Amendment to the Constitution bars accepted as common wisdom. immediately turned around and voted any kind of official support for religious What makes this truly remarkable is for official sponsorship of prayer, it is observance. Such is the meaning now that there is not one scintilla of evidence an absurdity to argue that the amend- routinely accorded to the amendment's in the constitutional record to support ment bars such sponsorship. The opening assertion that "Congress shall it. By historical standards, the founding amendment, instead, was supposed to make no law respecting an establish- era of our republic is not especially prevent (/) the creation of a national ment of religion ..." remote. We have a substantial documen- established church, like that in England We owe this reading of the matter tary record of the era, fully accessible to and those in several of the states, and primarily to the Earl Warren Supreme the courts and commentators; we know (2) the possibility that the newly created Court of the early 1960s, which decided the legal and religious practices of the government would interfere with the that the amendment prohibited prayer time; and we have the statements and religious customs of the states (which and Bible reading in the public schools, actions of the people who wrote and included all kinds of support for because these would allegedly consti- ratified the First Amendment. religion). tute an "establishment of religion," and In particular, we have the proceed- The colloquy on the floor concerning because the 14th Amendment adopted ings of the first Congress, in which all of this was fairly extensive, as Madi- after the Civil War supposedly "incor- James Madison supported the Bill of son responded to his colleagues that the porated" this prohibition into the restric- Rights and explained his reasons for amendment might interfere with state doing so (which were, in essence, that religious practices, that it could be Reprinted with permission of Human Events. his constituents, agitated by Patrick Please turn to page 60

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years, it came back to George Washington University in the nation's capital. With the Navy band playing "Anchors Aweigh," 73 midshipmen marched in dress uniforms for the com- missioning of the new George Washington unit as other students and faculty members applauded. Much of this resurgence stems from good old-fashioned patriotism. Young men and women are no longer afraid to show their patriotism and have lost their fear of anti-ROTC types, many of whom were draft-dodgers during the ROTC COMES Vietnam War. Economic advantages also rank high among the reasons for choosing ROTC. Twenty-thousand students currently hold two-, three- and four-year ROTC MARCHING BACK scholarships, which pay virtually all college expenses, except room and in Army, Air Force and Navy ROTC board. Scholarships are awarded on the By Oliver Starr Jr. units has doubled since the 1973-74 basis of grades, leadership, physical school year. For example, enrollment in fitness and academic proficiency in 0N THE night of May 3, Army ROTC has climbed from 33,200 such fields as engineering, advanced 1970, a fire broke out in the in the 1973-74 school year to 61,487 in electronics, laser technology, computer Air Force ROTC Quonset 1985-86. programming, the physical sciences hut at Washington Univer- But numbers don't tell the full story. and nursing. sity in St. Louis. Hundreds The quality of ROTC officers may be In the four-year Army ROTC pro- of students gathered to more important. gram, the basic course taken during the

watch it burn. When fire- "Young men and women being com- first two years includes such subjects as men arrived, the students missioned by the ROTC are almost al- customs, traditions and organizations pelted them with stones. ways unfailingly high-quality people." of the service, military science, history

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the bleak Vietnam War days. It was so the U.S. Armed Forces today. hours a week in the classroom or drill- bad that hardly anyone wore his uni- ing; uniforms also are worn to classes, form on campus. Those who enrolled in pendulum has swung so far on and short haircuts are the rule. ROTC were under constant siege from THEcampus that there are now as many The value of a four-year scholarship the anti-war factions. as five applicants for every avail- can easily exceed $45,000. At St. A dramatic change has taken place able ROTC scholarship. Louis' Washington University, for since that distressing era. ROTC is rid- Also impressed with the new attitude example, the annual ROTC tuition al- ing high again, not only at Washington toward ROTC is Lt. Col. Larry Bates, a lotment is $10,500. Textbooks and University, but also at more than 1,000 twice-wounded Vietnam veteran who $100 a month in spending money are campuses across the nation. Enrollment earned the Silver Star and Bronze Star provided. Non-scholarship students while serving as a company commander receive no aid as freshmen or sopho- annual subsis- Oliver Stan- Jr. , a former editor for a in the 8th Infantry. mores but get a $1,000 large metropolitan daily newspaper, is a "Students have recognized ROTC as tence allowance as juniors and seniors, free-lance journalist from Webster a highly honored profession," said and are paid for summer training. Groves, Mo. Bates, who commands the ROTC Gate- Please turn to page 58

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of Americans taking ad- classified ads will give you a pretty for such a car. But be careful . Make sure vantage of low new-car good idea of the retail price range of you are buying the car from a private interest rates have flooded specific models in your area," he said. seller, not a floating dealer who buys the market with quality "Classified ads also reflect regional and sells cars under the guise of a pri- trade-ins. differences in popularity and price." vate seller. T Despite the plethora, When you find a car that interests consumers are advised to exercise the you, how do you know it's not a lemon? IS also wise to check on what, if usual caution when buying used cars. First, disregard the odometer reading ITany, serious flaws are associated with The federal government has increased because odometers are easily set back the model you are considering. Gor- its efforts to punish disreputable used-car and, although there are laws against such zelany suggested buyers call the na- dealers, but the best protection still is a tampering, infractions are hard to spot. tional Auto Safety Administration's 1-800- little knowledge and taking the time to Jim Gorzelany, senior editor of Con- Office of Consumer Services at

check out the car before you buy it. sumers Digest, said a buyer should 424-9393 to learn quickly whether the Before going near a lot, decide gener- "suspect the odometer reading if the car has been involved in a recall and ally what kind of car you need, and numbers, especially the first two, do how serious the flaws might be. Have more important, what you don't need. not line up perfectly, or if there are gaps the car's make, model, year and ID Most people probably should not con- between the number dials." If possible, number stamped on the instrument sider highly modified cars, especially get service records from the owner. panel (visible through the windshield) those in which the engine has been They will show how the car was main- when you call. swapped for one from a different make. tained and give some indication of Gorzelany added cautions about cars Other cars to avoid are those with high- mileage. that have steam-cleaned engines, be- performance or turbine engines and cause the cleaning could disguise poor older foreign luxury cars that are expen- maintenance, and cars that have been sive to maintain. Imported "orphans" used in fleets by taxi companies, munic- no longer sold in the United States are ipalities or law-enforcement agencies.

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if you live far from a dealer who serv- but are high-mileage cars driven by ices them. many different drivers who are not the To familiarize yourself with prices, owners. Some dealers specialize in there are a number of guides listing buying fleet cars, touching them up and prices of U.S. and foreign models. The selling them to unsuspecting buyers as bank or lending institution where you one-owner cream puffs. will finance the vehicle loan also can The car's paint also can tell tales. A help you check prices. car less than three years old that has Dan Jedlicka, auto editor of the been repainted may have been in a wreck. To check for a repaint, look at Paul Martin, a World War II Navy pilot, the edges of the hood, trunk openings and Dennis O'Brien, a public relations and the door jambs for overspray or executive, are veteran magazine writers different-color paint. If you suspect the based in Chicago. Please turn to page 52

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President Aquino's policy of reconciliation with the communists "was doomed from the start," says counter- insurgency expert Gen. Richard G. Stilwell, who also cites serious problems in the Philippine armed forces.

HE STAGE already had been set when the when 1,000 soldiers, led by Col. Gregorio "Gringo" Honasan, Marcos regime crumbled in February 1986. seized key military posts in Manila, the capital city. When the Years of widespread corruption, neglect of the fighting ended, 53 Filipinos were dead and 300 wounded. soldiers' basic needs and inadequate response to Honasan said the government's inability to launch action a burgeoning communist insurgency had stirred against the communist movement, which has engulfed much up a sea of unrest in the Philippine military. of the 7,000-island archipelago since the late 1960s, Those conditions continued to fester even after prompted the rebellion. He and many of his followers eluded Corazon Aquino took office and today threaten capture, and have renewed their pledge to bring the Aquino T the island-chain republic, warned retired U.S. government to its knees. It was the fifth coup attempt, and Army Gen. Richard G. Stilwell, former deputy undersecre- most serious challenge, faced by the government. tary of defense for policy and an expert on counterinsurgency. Stilwell returned from a 10-day tour of the Philippines just "The deplorable conditions in the Philippine armed forces days before the coup attempt. As a representative of a private did not evolve overnight," Stilwell said. "Unrest has been U.S. -based health-relief organization, he met with govern-

building for years, and little has been done to address it." ment leaders and military commanders during his sojourn. "I The unrest exploded into armed rebellion last August, returned more pessimistic about the problems in the Philip-

pines than when I departed," he said. "The problems, especially in the military, are critical." Stilwell recently discussed some of these problems and other issues concerning the Philippines with The American Legion Magazine.

American Legion Magazine: What has been the Aquino government's major failure in attempting to restore stability to the Philippines?

General Stilwell: The government's lack of a firm, con- sistent policy toward the Philippine Communist Party. In her first year in office. President Aquino felt a moral imperative to bring about a cease-fire and attempt to negotiate an end to the communist-armed struggle. Key communist leaders were released from jail, and guerrillas were promised amnesty and

Retired Army Gen. Richard G. Stilwell, former undersecretaty

> of defense for policy, is a military-affairs expert who worked » closely with the Philippine Army during the HUKS insurgency 1 in the 1950s.

22 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE .

DISARRAY— The attempted coup and attack on army head- Army at 26,000. While the Philippine armed forces number quarters last August were ample warning of serious unrest more than 200,000, only the combat units are relevant to within the Philippine armed forces. counterinsurgency, and these total about 30,000 soldiers. It's alarming to note that the ratio of guerrillas to government land if they laid down their arms and surrendered. soldiers is almost 1-to-l. History shows us that insurgencies

The reconciliation effort was doomed from the start, as the fare well even when they are outnumbered 6-to- 1 communist objective is to dominate the Philippines. Negotia- tions got nowhere. Few guerrillas surrendered, and fewer still Q B Are the Philippine armed forces capable of waging turned in arms. And the communists were given a breathing all-out war against the communists? spell to recoup from the political mistake of not supporting A Under present conditions, no. They are deficient in many the revolt against Marcos. ways. To begin with, the officer corps is fractionalized, When the negotiations broke off in early 1987, the Philip- and the quality of leadership is spotty. Soldiers have not been pine armed forces were directed to take the offensive against indoctrinated, and units have not been properly trained, for the communist military arm, the New People's Army. The their unique missions in combating insurgency. Each soldier "offensive" has not yet begun, for the government has no must be drilled on his triple responsibility: protector of the overall plan for dealing with the insurgency. populace, contributor to its welfare and skillful guerrilla The military cannot go it alone. Counterinsurgency fighter. In my view, systematic and rigorous training of the campaigns require government action to address the armed forces for this kind of warfare should be the first grievances of the rural population, police action to root out priority. the imbedded communist apparatus, and military actions to Another major problem is the lack of the necessary logisti- provide security and hunt down the armed guerrillas. Without cal support for effective, sustained operations. There are no those complementary actions, the units of the New People's combat rations, much equipment is unserviceable, and Army will be hard to find, and every guerrilla who is killed battalions have neither qualified personnel nor medical kits will be replaced by the communist political cadres. for emergency treatment of the wounded. All this adds up to low morale. Q- How serious a threat are the Philippine communists? One gauge of military professionalism is enforcement of A They pose a great threat. The communist movement has discipline and standards. In the Philippines, officers simply two major arms, political and military, pursuing a don't get punished for embezzlement or, worse yet, for gross coordinated strategy. The political arm, the National Demo- leadership failures on the battlefield. cratic Front, has more than 45 supporting organizations — labor, clergy, students and so on— operating mainly in the Q- What is the root of the problem between the Philip- urban areas, intent on infiltrating institutions, destabilizing pine government and its armed forces? the economy and eroding confidence in the government. The Alt's difficult to be precise, because the armed forces do New People's Army, in the classic Maoist pattern of develop- not speak with a single voice. But the majority of the ing mass support in the countryside, now controls perhaps 30 officers complain that Aquino and her key advisers simply do percent of the rural villages. not understand the dimensions and methods of the com- The latest estimates place the strength of the New People's munist insurgency, and therefore, do not understand the

JANUARY 1988 23 DEFICIENT— Gen. Fidel Ramos heads a poorly trained army fraught with dissension and low morale.

scope of the measures needed to defeat it. General Ramos, Q a Have all these attempted coups helped the communist the chief of staff, has publicly cited the grave danger, and movement? called for a national strategy integrating executive, legisla- Unquestionably. The communists have taken advantage tive and judicial programs to be implemented without delay A of every distraction and every crisis that has occurred in at the grassroots level. Honasan, perpetrator of the August the Philippines. If anyone has gained anything from the coup attempt, tells the people the same thing. current instability, the communists have. The momentum of The fact that Honasan and his small band are not being the insurgency accelerates each time the government must hunted by the army and constabulary demonstrates that there face a problem that diverts its attention. is wide support in the armed forces for his platform, if not for his violent methods. The recent pay raise for soldiers does not Q. Would increased U.S. aid boost the government's address this problem. Many people also believe that Aquino ability to fight the communist guerrillas? is more suspicious of the military than of the communists, as Yes, to some degree. But more U.S. aid is not the sole— a result of the assassination of her husband some years ago. A or even primary — requirement. It's a Philippine prob- lem, requiring solutions that are Philippine in design and conduct; our assistance can only reinforce domestic pro- grams. Thus, the heart of the matter is the government's THE GROWING RED THREAT willingness to make defeating the insurgency a top national priority; develop an interdepartmental game plan; and began in 1969 as a ragtag band of com- WHAT harness the entire bureaucracy to the resulting tasks under munist rebels has evolved into an organized, clear-cut civilian, police and military management. well-armed revolution that today controls about a fifth This will require some budget reallocations, augmenting of the Philippine countryside. vital rural programs and reducing less-critical expenditures. The Communist Party of the Philippines and its The military budget needs only a modest increase; a high- military faction, the New People's Army, have stepped tech army always loses to guerrillas. As I said earlier, up efforts in their 18-year-long war against democracy correcting key deficiencies— extensive combat training, and in the Philippines, a war that has killed more than providing essential equipment at battalion and lower levels — 5,000 Filipinos in the past two years. The communists is not all that costly. One seasoned Filipino officer told me are waging war on two major fronts— on the battlefield that those improvements would "make our army proud and and at the polls. In some areas communists control up capable, and no longer the laughingstock of our Southeast to 50 percent of populated areas, according to Richard Asian neighbors." D. Fisher Jr., a policy analyst in the Asian Studies Center, The Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C. Q. Are the Soviets supplying arms to the Philippine "In these areas," Fisher wrote recently in a report, communist guerrillas? "the CPP collects taxes and maintains tight intelligence There's no evidence of that. We believe that the New networks that allow the NPA to retain the initiative A People's Army has received modest help from Viet- against the [Philippine] military." nam—mostly American-made M-16 rifles, which are the

24 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE guerrillas' basic weapons. But the guerrillas get most of their M-16s by stealing government stocks or capturing them in encounters with the armed forces. However, a considerable amount of money is being fun- neled to the Communist Party for non-military uses. Con- tributions have poured in to the various front organizations from groups in New Zealand, Australia and Western Europe— and even the United States — that are sympathetic to the insurgents' cause. The Soviet-controlled World Federation of Trade Unions provides support to the Philippines' second- largest trade-union association: the KMU, or May First Movement, which has attempted to dislocate the Philippine economy by targeting strikes on strategic industries.

QB Besides the communists and the military, what other problems are contributing to the instability of the Philip- pines? A The overall economic situation is bleak. The Philip- pines, once an economic leader in Southeast Asia, has become one of the poorest countries. Sixty percent of its people have incomes below the poverty line, and lack even minimum health and sanitation services. Unemployment is STRATEGIC SITES— A major U.S. concern is the security of very high, and the traditionally high birth rate creates a Clark Air Base and the Subic Bay Naval Station. demand for 700,000 new jobs each year. The foreign-debt burden is staggering. While the economy had positive growth in 1986 for the first time in several years, Q Didn't Aquino recently decree a land-reform program the unstable conditions have deterred both foreign and designed to provide land to the landless? domestic investment — the keys to long-term economic A Immediately before the Philippine Congress took office expansion. It is estimated that 95 percent of the national last July, Aquino announced a sweeping measure for wealth is held by 5 percent of the population. Meaningful, nationwide redistribution of privately owned land but left the phased land reform is one necessary step toward more details to be hammered out by the legislature. Her action equitable distribution of wealth. Please turn to page 71

CAN WE HOLD OUR STRATEGIC BASES?

By RobertJ. Hanks TWO military bases in the Philippines ticularly in the wake of major deploy- Continued access to Subic and — the Subic Bay/Cubi Point naval ments of 7th Fleet ships to the Indian Clark clearly is essential if the United complex and Clark Air Base — com- Ocean. States is to maintain a strong military prise the southern anchor of The strategic location of Subic Bay presence in the Western Pacific and in America's strategic presence in South- gives U.S. warships the freedom to the Indian Ocean. Demand for such a east Asia. From these bases, which sail across the southwest Pacific and presence rose dramatically after have operated since World War II, Indian oceans without requiring sup- Soviet air and naval forces arrived in American armed forces have domi- ply lines that would extend to Hawaii Vietnam. These forces menace South- nated major lines of communication or the West Coast, and without having east Asian countries and sea lanes, across the South China Sea, connect- to churn thousands of miles east or and diminish the confidence that those

ing the Indian and Pacific oceans, and north for major repairs. Also, Subic 's nations have long placed in American linking regional nations to Australia critical location gives U.S. warships military power. and New Zealand. Until recently, this the ability to react promptly to any The unprecedented Soviet buildup sea expanse has been mostly Amer- regional crisis. poses many threats. Wartime opera- ican-controlled. Clark Air Base, although an opera- tions would encompass air strikes America's military presence in tional airfield, is primarily a vital against land targets, submarine inter- Southeast Asia has safeguarded its supply depot serving U.S. military diction of shipping lanes, and sub- own interests and supported regional forces throughout Southeast Asia. marine-launched cruise-missile at- nations whenever they felt imperiled. Clark also is an indispensable part of tacks against opposing surface naval Although a few nations publicly re- a logistical lifeline to the American forces and shore targets throughout fuse to acknowledge this reality and at base at Diego Garcia in the Indian the area. The burgeoning Soviet mili- times even criticize the U.S. pres- Ocean. The bulk of airlifted support tary presence already has produced a ence, most are quick to register unhap- for that atoll originates in California, peacetime impact on regional states piness about any reduction of U.S. and transporting aircraft must refuel at that has enhanced Moscow's political strength in the Western Pacific, par- Clark en route to Diego Garcia. Please turn to page 70

JANUARY 1988 25 Mi:i)AL0F110N()R RALPH TALBOT and ROBERT G. ROBLNSON

wmmmwm URING World War I the ». "TH battlefield extended into a I new arena: the sky. None VIGNETTES OF H I °f the band of intrepid air- I men who fought in that i new dimension did so with I greater skill or bravery 9 M than Ralph Talbot and HhI Robert G. Robinson. By October 1918, the long, bitterly COURAGE contested war had reached a critical juncture. Massed Allied and German armies were locked in contention for The young pilot and his gunner fought the Meuse-Argonne area of France near the Belgian border, each realizing that a cold, dispassionate war of speed, skill this could very well be the decisive battle. Vying for advantage, each com- and weapons. But for a Berlin-born mitted its full resources, including the U.S. paratrooper, war was a personal matter. embryonic air arms that both possessed. On Oct. 8, the frail, canvas-covered, two-seat aircraft assigned to Squadron C, 1st Marine Aviation Force, were By Vernon Pizer airborne behind enemy lines, seeking targets of opportunity. The pilot of one were no longer alone — 12 enemy scout Once in Allied territory, Talbot plane was 2nd Lt. Ralph Talbot; Gun- planes were closing on them rapidly. headed directly for an Army hospital, nery Sgt. Robert G. Robinson was his Talbot skittered his plane about eva- setting the plane down in a field beside

observer-gunner. Although Talbot was sively while Robinson traversed his it. After litter bearers removed the still- only 21 years old and Robinson only machine gun, raking the Germans with unconscious gunner, Talbot took off for 22, both Americans already were veter- a steady stream of bullets. The pilot home base and much-needed repairs. ans of air combat. Early into the flight succeeded in bringing the plane up on Robinson eventually recovered and the pair had attacked and scattered an the tail of a German scout, and Robin- was sent home. Talbot, less fortunate,

enemy ground concentration; now they son hit it dead on; it exploded in a fire- was shot down and killed on a sub-

were scanning the terrain , hunting other ball. sequent mission. For their courage and targets. As Talbot banked the plane, a Ger- skill, both men received the Medal of All at once they were set upon by man bullet struck Robinson in the Honor. They were the first Marine

nine German aircraft. The hunters had elbow, ripping most of it away; simul- Corps aviators to earn that coveted become the hunted. Robinson zeroed in taneously, his machine gun jammed. decoration. on one of the German planes, bringing Maneuvering skillfully, Talbot fended

it down, while Talbot took evasive ac- off the enemy while the gunner, work- tion to shake off the superior force and ing with his good hand, cleared the jam. ISADORE S. JACHMAN streak for home. Before Robinson could resume firing he Early the next morning Talbot and was struck twice more, in the stomach /N A VERY special way, Isadore S. Robinson were again over enemy terri- and the hip. Jachman was fighting a personal tory, flying interdiction missions. The Stealing a quick glance back, the war. Born in Berlin, he had consid- Meuse-Argonne battle had reached a pilot saw that Robinson was uncon- ered himself to be a loyal German citi- new level of intensity, and the entire scious. Flying the plane with one hand, zen until the Germany he knew was front line was aflame with action. Talbot manned the forward guns with perverted by the insanity and bestiality On Oct. 14, the pair was part of an the other, shooting down one of the of Nazism into a slaughterhouse for Allied attack formation flying over scouts. Then he took the plane into a millions of the innocent. He was one of Belgium when their plane developed an steep dive, leveling off only when he the relatively few lucky ones; he wound engine malfunction, forcing them to was within 50 feet of the ground. The up in America, where he was safe from separate from the others. For a short maneuver forced the enemy scouts to the jackbooted Nazi extermination while as they turned back, they had the break off. squads. sky all to themselves. Suddenly, they Continuing to hug the ground, Talbot When the United States entered nursed the malfunctioning, shot-up World War II, Jachman promptly en- Author of 15 books, Vernon Pizer has little plane across the German lines. He listed in his adopted country's army, written more than 500 articles for lead- drew heavy ground fire, but none hit a seeking to repay his debt to the land that ing magazines throughout the world. vital spot on the ailing aircraft. had granted him refuge and to settle his

26 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE ANGRY SKIES -War went airborne for the first time in World War I, and American pilots soon earned their wings of courage in dogfights over foreign lands. personal score with the land he had battle was combat at its most elemental fled. Assigned to the infantry, he volun- level: a bitter, unrelenting contest for teered for training as a paratrooper. each snow-covered hillock, each clump Alert, conscientious and a quick of trees, each crossroad village. learner, he did well in jump school and Jachman and his comrades were had no trouble winning his para- blooded in a hurry. trooper's wings. Posted to Company B On Jan. 4, Company B was probing of the 513th Parachute Infantry Regi- the enemy near Flamierge, a small town ment, 17th Airborne Division, Jachman in the Bastogne area. The unit had al- displayed qualities of leadership and ready engaged in a minor fire-fight that professionalism that earned him a morning as it moved through the woods promotion to staff sergeant. leading to Flamierge. Jachman led one of the forward elements of the com- THE winter of 1944-45, the 17th pany. The Americans emerged from the AIR SUPPORT-U.S. Marine Corps air- Airborne was bivouacked in England, woods and were just beginning to cross IN craft wing their way to the heavily con- undergoing its final shakedown be- open ground when a concealed enemy tested Meuse-Argonne area of France. fore leaving to fight on the Continent. unit opened up on them with artillery, On Dec. 16, 30 German divisions plus mortar and small-arms fire. Effectively soldier. Grabbing the bazooka and supporting units mounted a massive pinned down by the bracketing fire, the some rockets, he armed the weapon, counter-offensive against the Allied Americans were vulnerable. Jachman raised it to his shoulder and moved forces in the Ardennes region of Bel- directed his men to belly down into the toward the two tanks, firing as he went. gium. History books would label the snow-covered ground in a defensive The Germans turned their weapons giant operation the Battle of the Bulge. perimeter and return fire. on the sergeant, but he kept coming. Achieving initial surprise against the A few minutes into the exchange, One of his rockets struck the nearest thinly held Allied lines, the Germans two German tanks lumbered over a rise, tank, crippling it. The battered tank broke through and made a deep penetra- inflicting heavy casualties on the dug-in turned and began to withdraw. The sec- tion. Eight days later, the 17th Airborne Americans. Jachman realized that the ond tank also turned and withdrew. Division was hurriedly airlifted across only way to prevent the tanks from wip- Wounded several times, Jachman died the channel and was at once committed ing out his men was to bring bazookas in the snow as both tanks retreated. to combat in the Ardennes. — armor-piercing rocket launchers — Jachman lost his life but won his Because the weather was so foul dur- into action against them. He looked personal war — he disrupted the Ger- ing the most critical phases of the Battle around desperately for his bazooka man man attack and saved his men. Three of the Bulge, the Allied air forces could and saw that he was dead, his bazooka days later Flamierge was in American not fly missions in close support of the lying in the snow beside him. Jachman hands. For his bravery, Jachman was ground troops. To a large extent the leaped to his feet and raced to the fallen awarded the Medal of Honor.

JANUARY 1988 27 The NHiHT

Miroslav Medvid

By Philip C. Clarke

after dark on the live in an honest country." REPENTED DEFECTOR -Medvid or his SHORTLYnight of Oct. 24, 1985, a What followed, however, was a two- impostor (second from left) finally is allowed to leave his ship for an interview young Ukrainian seaman week nightmare of frustration, misjudg- with U.S. immigration officials. named Miroslav Medvid ments and bureaucratic procrastination, jumped from his ship, the resulting in a humiliating failure of Soviet freighter Marshal America's political-asylum process. wrong and why, and to recommend Konev, anchored in the Not only was the would-be defector safeguards for the future, Congress in Mississippi River near denied freedom in the United States, 1986 ordered a full-scale investigation

New Orleans. Clutching a but he was forcibly returned to the of the case, assigning it, ironically, to small, watertight jar containing his Soviet vessel twice, with the help of the U.S. Commission on Security and Soviet identity papers, he swam ashore, three Americans. When Washington Cooperation in Europe. A bipartisan barely eluding three ship's officers who tried to rectify the situation, a standoff group composed of 19 members of Con- followed him. As Medvid told an inter- developed between U.S. and Soviet gress and one representative each from preter later that night, he wanted "to officials, nearly provoking a serious the State, Defense and Commerce de- international crisis. partments, the CSCE was created pri- Philip C. Clarke, a former AP corre- All of this was reported in often- marily to monitor Soviet compliance spondent, is a free-lance journalist and sensational news accounts at the time. with the 1975 Helsinki human-rights editor based in Greensboro, N.C. But to determine exactly what had gone accords.

28 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE TWICE Medvidjumped into the river, but he was returned to the ship both times by U.S. authorities.

The CSCE's 415-page report, includ- ing appendices and exhibits, was re- leased that May, after a 10-month probe that was based on more than 300 inter- views. The remarkably detailed and revealing account reads like a horror 3

story straight out of the Cold War. g ashore, Medvid, After swimming | dripping wet in a pullover shirt, shorts I and tennis shoes, found himself in the town of Belle Chasse, 15 miles down- wanted, the officers turned him over to SEAGOING PROTEST-/rate U.S. citi- stream from New Orleans. At a local the New Orleans Harbor Police. They, zens call for the sailor's release as they picket the Soviet freighter Konev, an- shopping center, he encountered an too, were baffled and called in the U.S. chored in the Mississippi River. employee leaving work. Though Med- Border Patrol. When Border Patrol vid spoke no English, he managed to agents also failed to overcome the lan- communicate that he wished to go to the guage barrier, the senior agent arranged tigators that Medvid began by saying, "policia" in "Novi Orleans." Despite a three-way telephone interview with a "At last, somebody understands me!" initial misgivings, the American drove part-time Ukrainian translator for the and twice answered, "Nu, da!" — mean- the stranger to New Orleans and dropped Immigration and Naturalization Service ing "Oh, yes!" when asked whether he him off at a police precinct station. in New York. wanted political asylum. She suggested Unable to understand what Medvid The translator told the CSCE inves- that in filling out the report on Medvid,

AMERICA STILL IS A POPULAR PLACE

CRITICS notwithstanding, the America is the land of opportunity. lar social group or political opinion." United States still is a popular In addition to economic incentives, INS spokesman Verne Jervis said, place. When the State Department growing numbers of the world's peo- "We get a lot of frivolous applications suspended normal immigration re- ple seek political freedom. Since from illegal aliens. They request quirements for one week in January 1975, the United States has taken in asylum as a kind of back door into the

1986, so that an extra 10,000 people more than 1 million refugees. Most of United States. And even when they're could apply for visas on a first-come, them came from communist-ruled rejected, many of them use our pro-

first-served basis, more than 1 million Southeast Asia, but increasing num- longed appeals procedure to postpone requests poured in. bers of people are now arriving from their deportation indefinitely." More than 100,000 applications Central America. In March 1986, the Statistics prove the point. Of the arrived from Ireland in one day. About Supreme Court ruled that the govern- 26,107 applications for asylum re- 64,000 Canadians applied. Seven ment must relax its standard for decid- ceived in the fiscal year ending in thousand people called the U.S. em- ing eligibility for political asylum. September 1987, only 4,062 were bassy in Romania; 5,000 people stood Previously, the Justice Department, accepted. in line outside our embassy in Burma. which administers the INS, held that a Only 62 Soviet citizens applied for From West Berlin, 5,500 applications "well-founded fear" and a "clear prob- asylum; 32 cases have been approved, came the first day. ability" were the same in proving a and the other 30 are pending. The As The Wall Street Journal printed: defector's claim that he would be reason for the low number of Soviet "The United States must be doing some- killed, tortured or otherwise perse- applicants is obvious: In order to seek thing right." The paper suggested that cuted for his beliefs if he returned to asylum, Soviets first must defect. And Canadian Lloyd Rowe of Calgary may his native land. But the high court said as former Soviet defector Vladislav have identified the main reason. "I'm this was contrary to the intent of the Krasnov explained: "The option of sick and tired of being taxed to death," Refugee Act of 1980. Under that law, defection is available only for the Rowe wrote. eligibility for asylum requires only chosen few who are allowed to travel While high taxes could prompt proof of "a well-founded fear of perse- abroad, or those daring enough to many outsiders to seek refuge in cution on account of race, religion, attempt to cross the border against America, there is a greater attraction: nationality, membership in a particu- overwhelming odds."

JANUARY 1988 29 '

American company that serviced ships that Medvid was kicking and scream- in the area. There, the scene turned ing, while lying on his back and 'bang- DESCRIBED as "mad as ugly. When the launch pulled alongside ing his head backward onto the ground. the Konev's gangway, said the CSCE He finally seemed to grow tired hell," a number of and report, "Medvid started screaming and began sobbing uncontrollably. He senators launched an shaking like a leaf. Clinging fiercely to screamed and shouted in a foreign lan- the launch railing, to 1 1 th-hour bid to prevent he refused go guage, repeating many times a word farther. Then he suddenly jumped off which sounded like rockne — suggested Medvid's deportation. the launch into the river and began by one translator later as possibly being swimming for shore." With the Konev's the Russian word prokyyatiy, meaning second mate now on board, Raymond 'you s.o.b.'. the senior agent should list "political Guthrie, the launch pilot, tried to head "Guthrie remained on the launch, and moral reasons" for the defection. off Medvid, but he reached shore just directing a spotlight at the men on After long consideration, however, the ahead of his pursuers. shore. He confirmed that Medvid re- agent decided that Medvid was "just The report continued, "The Soviet sisted capture and struggled with the another ship-jumper" and should be officer jumped onto the shore and three other men ..." returned to the Konev. tackled Medvid on the grassy area of After Medvid had been subdued, the

It was past 1 a.m. when the "ship- the river bank. Two other Americans launch returned to the Konev for rein- jumper," described as being nervous aboard the launch also assisted in over- forcements. "About six or seven crew- but not yet fully aware of his fate, was powering Medvid, who was struggling men were taken back to shore, where taken by launch to the Soviet freighter, to get free. they literally picked Medvid up and escorted by three employees of an "One of the Americans later recalled Please turn to page 62 TEARING DOWN THE WALL WHEN President Reagan visited have been assigned to the task, he West Berlin last year and called said, and measures have been adopted on Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down to reassure disenchanted defectors "by the wall," oppressed people every- showing more concern for the indi- where hailed his reaffirmation of the ! vidual." (Under a 1949 law, the CIA right to freedom of movement. Today, may harbor up to 100 intelligence de- however, problems plague Americas fectors a year, a quota that never has v kw handling of communist-bloc defectors B ~ been filled.) as well as the applications of thousands Among the proposals emerging who yearly seek asylum here. from the hearings are increased finan- Only days after the failed bid for cial support — the government cur- freedom by Soviet seaman Miroslav rently provides only $600 per capita

Medvid in October 1985, the highest- 1 for "refugee resettlement" — and ex- '' i MrlP M ranking KGB officer ever to defect to pert assistance to help defectors over- the United States, Lt.Col. Vitaly Yur- come language difficulties, acquire appeared at a Soviet training and find jobs fully commen- chenko, suddenly -J hH Mm Sfir^B WMli embassy news conference to announce surate with their qualifications. Other SYMBOL OF TYRANNY — President that after three months, he had "es- suggestions include expediting citizen- Reagan last year made a personal plea caped" from his CIA "kidnappers" to the Soviets to tear down the wall. ship and setting up a 24-hour emer- and was returning home. Back in the gency hot line for defectors seeking USSR, both men are now being used some defectors were tracked down and immediate protection. to spread anti-American propaganda assassinated. But the current Soviet "The defector offers our country a and to deter other would-be defectors. intelligence offensive is making effec- unique insight into an otherwise The humiliating reversals sent tive use of "novel psychological closed world," said Sen. Sam Nunn of

shock waves through the U.S. intelli- methods" — i.e. , the carrot and the Georgia, chairman of the Senate Sub- gence community, and brought de- stick. committee on Investigations. "We mands from an outraged Congress for The Soviet tactics appear to be gain- must learn to better assist and use the sweeping investigations and reform. ing. Although the numbers are classi- genuine defector, who usually arrives Meanwhile, a study by the Senate fied, high-level defections from the at our doorstep in his flight for free- Subcommittee on Investigations re- Soviet bloc are said to be declining dom with nothing more than the shirt leased last October said the KGB has while redefections are increasing. on his back." launched "a concerted, sophisticated Alarmed by this turn of events, CIA Added Nunn: "Even if the actions and expanding program of harassment Director William Webster assured Sen- taken under glasnost begin to match and intimidation meant to force the ate hearings in October that since the the advance advertising, the Soviet defector to return to the Soviet bloc." Yurchenko affair, the CIA has im- Union still will have a long, long road The program doesn't approach the proved its capacity to effectively man- to travel before it becomes what we violence of past KGB efforts, when age high-level defectors. More agents call a truly open society."

30 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE COMER PLEDGES $1 MILLION

FOUNDATION WITH A FUTURE

' N SOMEfortu- for CWF grants to conduct nate teen-agers worthy projects on behalf of chil- year were dren," Grant said. "For example, flast^ plucked from a $14,000 grant was awarded this ^ the grip of year to American Legion Post alcoholism or 1 59, Aberdeen, Idaho, to publish coaxed out of a booklet for sexually abused I suicide at- children.

U tempts . This "Although the foundation v J year, physically doesn't have the money to award impaired youths will get hands-on the six- and seven-figure grants training in the skills of Scouting, that large U.S. foundations can and children will learn how to afford," Grant said, "we still get recognize and avoid physical and 3 OKv a lot of mileage out of our dol- • sexual abuse. jm lars. Traditionally, the board of These are just some of the directors seeks projects that are "minor miracles for youths" important but whose financial made possible by the American needs are relatively small. Legion Child Welfare Founda- "We use the same principle for

tion Inc. , through grants funded awarding grants today as the by donations. "This year, we CWF founder, Dr. Garland need $1 million to keep on help- D. Murphy Jr. , used during the *** / ing our kids," said Nat'l Cmdr. early days of the foundation," John P. "Jake" Comer. "I'm Grant said. He was referring to counting on you!" the "seedling" principle cham- "For years to come, Legion- NATION'S FUTURE— The CWF helps programs that pioned by Murphy, who believed naires will look back on 1988 as foster creativity and self-development of America's that the wise use of small the year of the child, thanks to future leaders. amounts of money could out- the national fund drive that kicks produce the extravagant use of off this month," said U.S. (Udie) Grant, and others have supported the Child large amounts of money. president of the foundation's board Welfare Foundation through their con- Murphy, in fact, had witnessed that of directors. tributions. principle in action as early as 1948, "The real beauty of this project is The donations pour in from all cor- when the Legion and Auxiliary — con- that we will raise the money together— ners of the world. Some are large, cerned about children with rheumatic the Legion, the Auxiliary and all our some are small — $17 to the "Yanks" heart disease — gave a seed grant to the organizations," Comer said. "I can from a British veteran; $50 from a fledgling American Heart Association. promise you this: The American Legion Junior Auxiliary unit in Porter, Texas; A few years later the Legion awarded a will be long remembered and appre- $64 from a Lyle, Wash. , woman who similar grant to the National Associa- ciated for its efforts." raffled off a quilt she made. The tion for Mental Health. In both in- Pearl Behrend, national president of largest gift: $25,000 from the Pennsyl- stances, Murphy noticed, the Legion the American Legion Auxiliary, said vania American Legion Auxiliary. grants alerted the nation to important, she is equally enthusiastic, and already Since CWF was established in 1954, but little-known, causes and set off a she has passed the hat wherever her of- it has awarded grants totaling more chain reaction of donations from other ficial duties have taken her. At press than $2 million to non-profit organiza- sources. The Legion gifts, in effect, time, Auxiliary units had donated tions and agencies dedicated to the had clearly provided the seed money nearly $10,000. health and welfare of America's chil- for both agencies to become national For 33 years, Legionnaires, Auxiliary dren and youths. This year alone, health-research organizations. and Junior Auxiliary members, Eight CWF has awarded $137,500 in grants. Through the success of the "Founda- and Forty members, SAL members, "Any post or department may apply ( Please turn to page 56)

JANUARY 1988 31 Foundation with a FUTURE

CHILDHOOD-^ rapid blur of motion and experience racing to the future. The Child Welfan

WORTHY GOAL — Each Amer- ican child should grow up as happy and healthy as possible. 'We need $1 million

to keep un helping our kids.

I'm counting on you!'

John P. "Joke" Comer, Natl Cmdr.

32 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE 1986 grants ap- proved by the Child Welfare Foundation include: American Legion Auxiliary National Headquarters, In- dianapolis, $72,500; Aplastic Anemia VARIETY - CWF Foundation of Amer- grants benefit chil- ica, Inc., Bal- dren in numerous timore, Md., $22,500; ways, such as pub- Cornelia de Lange lishing comic Syndrome Foun- books on child dation, Collins- abuse and sup-

ville, Conn., porting research dis- $18,000; Genoa on childhood eases. Youth Center, Gen- oa, Neb., $7,000; Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, New York, N.Y., $22,500; Kansas Educational Endowment Program, $2,000; Parents Anonymous, Missoula, Mont., $7,500; Va- riety Pre-Schooler's Workshop, Syosset, N.Y., $21,500; Voice of the Blind, Bethel, Maine, $17,000; „ Guardians of Hydro-

| cephalus Research ° Foundation, Brooklyn,

1 N.Y., $18,000. oundation helps each child be a winner.

"CHILDREN do not make up 1 00 percent of our population, but they sure make up 1 00 percent of our future. You can help make theirs a better future and ours a better world by sending your contribution to The American Legion Child Welfare Foundation today. Take the enclosed self- addressed envelope and send $10, $15 or whatever you

can afford. I'm counting on your support, and I know America's veterans will come through for our kids!"

JANUARY 1988 33 AMERICA'S SERVICEMEN HARDSHIP DUTY THOME

Germany, Japan, Alaska and Hawaii do By Phyllis Zauner get a percentage boost — but that's not For many military available in the continental United States. "California is worse than men and women in HEN I see him stand- Alaska," said one sergeant, whose car ing up there in uni- lower pay grades, bears parking stickers from a half- form, the way he holds dozen bases. "Up there we got a cost-

his head ... it makes substandard of-living adjustment." me proud." Renee said A Department of Defense study housing is all about her husband, shows that 21 percent of all military Casey, a Marine lance they can afford families live in substandard housing corporal. "He's doing because allowances don't cover off- for their families. something that makes base costs. This applies especially to

him feel good, and I know it's important grades E-3 and below. In fact, a recent

to him to have someone here to share it DoD report to the Armed Services com- with." mittees showed that half of all junior But Casey will not have his wife and enlisted people who live in off-base children with him much longer. Family not cover the cost of living in cities housing live below DoD standards of life is a luxury he can't afford. After the along the East Coast and in the San minimum acceptability. According to couple's third child is born, Renee will Francisco area, which even higher-paid DoD standards, housing is unaccept- leave the one-bedroom apartment near officers call "hardship duty." In dire able if there are not enough bedrooms to Alameda Naval Air Station in Califor- financial shape, military families ensure that no more than two dependents nia and go back to Chicago to live with scramble for food and clothing, share share a room. her parents. She sees no way to squeeze apartments or are forced to split up. In many cases, according to the in another crib, and she's not sure she David Ciechanowski, chief of Army DoD, junior enlisted people pay their can stretch her food budget to feed Community Services at San Francisco entire basic allowances and nearly $300 another mouth. Presidio, said, "If they're making pay- a month more for a two-bedroom apart- Casey's base pay is $800 a month ments on a car, they're in tight straits." ment, not including utilities. before taxes. The off-base-housing Part of the squeeze stems from the allowances he receives fall $100 short STATISTICS tell the story. Junior fact that the military has changed. It's of paying the $515-a-month rent on his enlisted people (E-3 and below) no longer made up of footloose young family's present quarters, and a two- receive a basic off-base-quarters bachelors living in barracks and eating bedroom apartment would cost at least allowance of $253 a month, supple- at the mess hall. Twenty-eight percent $675 in the exorbitantly high-rent San mented by a variable housing allow- of the first-term soldiers in today's Francisco Bay area. So Renee and the ance. In some states and in rural areas, Army are married, and there's not kids will move to Chicago, and Casey there is no variable housing allowance. nearly enough on-base family housing

will take bachelor quarters on the base. In San Francisco, it's $275, the highest to accommodate them.

Renee knows that military and pri- in the nation; in Oakland, it's $ 160. The "The percentage of married soldiers

vate relief agencies could help. But her allowance is the same whether the serv- has skyrocketed in the past five or six husband is too proud to accept any help. ice person has five dependents or none. years with the volunteer Army," said The story is not an uncommon one. When the allowance was introduced Ciechanowski. "The Army is recruiting

Thousands of low-ranking military in 1981, it was supposed to make up the more established people now. A lot of people are struggling to raise families difference between the basic allowance people are looking at the Army as a on pay and housing allowances that do for quarters and the actual cost of rent. place to raise a family." But a cost-cutting Congress, appalled at As early as 1983, the Army's chief of Phyllis Zauner, a Sacramento-based au- the way the extra allowance was soaring staff reported, "The Army's willingness thor of more than 400 articles, writes in some areas, froze the rate. to acknowledge the critical role families on social conditions in America. Military families who live in West play in its mission has moved from

34 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE SKY-HIGH -Most young military families living in high-cost areas such as San Francisco rarely make ends meet.

studied neglect, through selective inclu- to get into an apartment. Emergency sion of families, to a sense that the food lockers also are widely available, development of a family philosophy is Half of the and the San Francisco Presidio has a imperative." junior enlisted unique program that releases unsold Still, dozens of soldiers and seamen commissary food once a week. feel that the true attitude hinges on an people living in "This is no soup kitchen," insisted old military adage: "If we wanted you Ciechanowski, who is in charge of the to have a wife, we would have issued off-base housing program. "We're not just giving food; you one." live below DoD we give nutritional advice. People in Housing problems do not exist the program meet others in the same everywhere in the nation. Low-cost standards of predicament and arrange carpooling or trailer parks line the perimeters of bases acceptability. babysitting pools." in some states, and rural towns near Still, many enlisted people see it as a some bases exist solely as a result of the form of welfare, and they resent the fact military. But that only makes it more that they can't support themselves. Many difficult for members of Congress from of them are too proud to ask for help and California to persuade their colleagues don't like to admit that there isn't to vote for military-housing funds. enough food. The government food-

In San Francisco, the situation is stamp program seldom applies since it expected to become acute when the is based on gross entitlement and the battleship Missouri and its escort ships ceiling is below what they are paid. become home-ported there. That will All of these problems play a big role bring 6,000 sailors into an area where in determining whether or not enlisted there is already a shortage of 2,000 people stay in service. "If they don't apartments. Military planners hope that perceive it as a feasible lifestyle for leasing arrangements with private de- their families, they're going to get out," velopers will ease the crunch by 1992. said Ciechanowski. Meanwhile, Army Community Serv- That puts the ball back in Congress' ices and other such organizations are court. The central issue is an adjustment working to ease the burden on low- in the variable housing allowance. Said GETTING WORSE-The carrier Enter- ranking enlisted people, who generally a Navy housing spokesman at the Penta- prise, home-ported in San Francisco, will have not yet accumulated nest eggs, by has just not let variable be joined shortly by the battleship Mis- gon, "Congress offering no-interest loans that will pay souri, which will bring its 6,000- man crew housing do what it was supposed to the first-and-last-month rents they need to an area already short 2,000 apartments. do."

JANUARY 1988 35 BEAUTY MOST FOWL— A painting of three redheads was selected as the design for the 1988 U.S. Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp. THOSE MILLION-DOLLAR DUCKS!

Hatched in the 1930s, the duck stamp By Gary Turbak since has soared to fantastic heights, Each year U.S. raising millions of dollars for wildlife, and bestowing prestige and riches on NE day in November 1986, wildlife artists the artists who win the annual design Wisconsin artist Arthur enter their own contest. The duck-stamp contest has, in Anderson got a phone call fact, become the most lucrative art about a duck that eventu- world series, competition anywhere. "It's the world ally will make him a mil- series of wildlife painting," said Min- lionaire. Like 800 other where they can nesota art dealer Bill Webster. "And virtu- wildlife painters, Anderson win big bucks for ally every artist has a chance to win." had entered the annual In the dusty days of the 1930s, duck-stamp art contest painting ducks. drought swept across the land, and hard sponsored by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. When judges named his paint- ing of redheads the best of the flock, Gary Turbak, a regular contributor to

Anderson joined the elite ranks of duck- this magazine, is an award-winning jour- made millionaires. nalist based in Missoula, Mont.

36 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE times drove farmers to plant crops on offending elements before sending the tors and conservation-minded people. every available acre. Millions of wet- painting to the stamp engraver. The 5 3 -year-old program has garnered lands disappeared, and waterfowl num- Officially, the winner receives only a $313 million that has been used to pre- bers plummeted. In 1934, at the insis- sheet of stamps featuring his painting, serve 3.7 million acres of wetlands and tence of conservationist and political but artists have learned to build huge nesting habitats for waterfowl. cartoonist Ding Darling, Congress nest eggs for themselves by selling The price of the stamp has climbed moved to reverse that trend by passing thousands of prints of their winning from $7.50 to $10, but that only means the Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act. entries. According to Webster, the duck- more money for ducks. "Out of that The Duck Stamp Act, as it is commonly stamp contest is worth at least a million $ 10, no more than 26 cents will be spent called, requires waterfowlers over the dollars to the winning artist. on production costs." said Norma Op- age of 16 to purchase special federal In 1934, about 650,000 stamps were grand, coordinator of the duck-stamp stamps for their hunting licenses. The purchased at $1 each, and with wet- program. "The rest will all be used to proceeds are used to acquire waterfowl lands selling for as little as 77 cents per acquire wildlife habitats." habitats. acre, a lot of habitats came back to the Again this November the phone will birds' side of the ledger. Today, duck- ring in the studio of some lucky artist. before any stamps could be stamp sales annually raise more than The caller will have a million-dollar BUTsold, someone had to create a paint- $14 million from hunters, stamp collec- message about a duck. ing. Darling did the first one — a pair of mallards — and for each of the TTfTTn limillHIIIHIM next 14 years officials simply asked U.S. THE INTERIOR S another noted artist to produce a design. DEPARTMENT OF In 1949, however, the USF&WS insti- tuted a contest to select the painting for that year's stamp. Only eight artists entered that first competition, but the egg had been laid. By 1981, contest administrators and judges found themselves buried be- neath 2,100 paintings. Though a $50 entry fee now eliminates most silly and eccentric entries, hundreds of artists participate in the contest each year. The event has been no less colorful than the birds it serves. "We've had Daffy Ducks and goofy ducks and even one entry showing a swan with a trum- pet behind it — a 'trumpeter' swan," recalled Pete Anastasi, former contest administrator. One entry featured a hunter sleeping in a blind with a duck CINNAMON TEAL • VOID AFTER JUNE 30, 1986 TJ O sitting on his head. Another painting depicted a duck standing on a lake shore flapping its wings; one wing was ex- Cinnamon Teal by Gerald Mobley quisitely done, but the other consisted of a skeleton with a lone feather protrud- ing from the end. A few weeks before the 1975 contest, urn mimiiii officials received a letter claiming that We've had the event was rigged and predicting Daffy Ducks ORATORY who would win. When the judges in- HUNTING and goofy AND deed gave the top award to the painting SEKVATION mentioned in the letter, a major scandal ducks, and STAMP threatened to erupt. However, it was even $7.50 nothing more than a lucky guess. one One year, the winning painting was enfry showing of geese standing in a field. Close in- a swan wifh spection showed that the birds' wings were clipped and that corn lay around a frumpef their feet. The artist had simply used behind if." tame geese as models, but the painting U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR appeared to depict live decoys and bait litittitiifiiffiiriiffinifiriflimii being used to lure wild birds to hunters. Fulvous Whistling by Burton Moore Since both those techniques are illegal and unethical, authorities removed the

JANUARY 1988 37 theory, one submarine could single- handedly wipe out all of America's great cities.

As the Navy sees it, it is impossible to overstate the importance of hunting down such subs. mm Diesel subs are too noisy for that. "They're very good when they're on battery," Lehman acknowledged, but under high-speed operation, "they have to recharge about every three hours or so." Recharging necessitates rising near the surface to run the air-breathing diesel motors. The sophisticated sonar equipment that both sides commonly use can spot diesel subs as readily as if The Soviets they were mammoth icebergs; in fact, have far more parties to debate, and we don't see any- this equipment is so sensitive that it can thing to debate." identify specific types of submarines by subs the I than In spite of Lehman's words, a debate the sounds of their pumps and motors. I United States. does exist, and like most disagreements Our shortage of subs compared with between Congress and the Pentagon, it the Soviets makes stealthy subs impera- • But former Navy involves money. Some members of Con- tive. The Soviet Union currently out- I Secretary John gress question whether we are getting numbers the United States 3-to-l in Lehman defends an adequate payback from our invest- naval attack subs (once called ment in a nuclear-powered armada, "U-boats") and more than 2-to-l in S the Navy's which includes aircraft carriers as well ballistic-missile-bearing submarines. choice of quality as submarines. Indeed, building nu- The gap is widening, too; the Kremlin's ; clear submarines can be a nine-figure accelerated building schedule puts quantify. over proposition. The new Seawolf class of eight to 12 new subs in the water each supersubs, scheduled for deployment year, compared with our four. In war- toward the end of the decade, may cost time, an American sub that is detected nearly $1.6 billion apiece. Nuclear subs in the distant, icy reaches of the Barents are complex affairs; each is essentially Sea can count upon being quickly sur- By Steve Salerno built to individual specifications. Years LASTS LONGER — Nuclear subs are can go by before delivery takes place. harder to detect than diesel subs and THE United States Diesel subs, on the other hand, are can run for years without refueling. spending and relying too assembly-line projects. They are much much on its nuclear sub- cheaper to build, and most of the work marines at the expense of can be farmed out to a ready pool of OSconventional subs? Ask domestic and foreign jobbers that are former Navy Secretary experienced in the mass production of

John Lehman for his as- the vessels. Delivery is correspondingly sessment of the debate on quicker. At a time when the Pentagon nuclear vs. diesel sub- has made no bones about the Soviets' marines, and his reply is typically forth- vast numerical advantage, congres- right: sional critics wonder why a financially "There's certainly no debate in the constrained Navy would want to wait Navy or the Pentagon," he said. "We twice as long for half as many ships. have stated and restated what every- The answer is the only meaningful body knows: Diesel-electric subs are criterion as far as Lehman and the Navy very good for certain purposes, but they are concerned: performance at sea. cannot replace nuclear subs. They just At one time, the Soviets deployed don't do what nuclear subs do." most of their subs in the Atlantic and Never one to pull punches, Lehman Pacific. Now they are clustering an added, "Some people who know little increasing number of ballistic-missile about naval matters keep suggesting submarines back toward the polar ice that diesel subs are an alternative to cap. From beneath the arctic perma-

nuclear submarines. But it takes two frost, remote as it sounds, the Soviets can unleash a staggering atomic blitz- Steve Salerno is a California-basedfree- krieg. A Russian submarine of the lance journalist whose articles appear in Typhoon class harbors 20 missiles, each

a variety ofAmerica 's most respected of which is equipped with multiple, magazines. independently targeted warheads. In

38 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE 'IN THEORY, ONE SUBMARINE COULD SINGLE-HANDEDLY WIPE OUT ALL OF AMERICA'S GREAT CITIES.'

rounded by a bevy of Soviet attack you can stay down," thus avoiding the subs. Moreover, although our sleek, inconvenience of having to surface and single-hull-design subs are much snorkel during a hot pursuit. quieter and more agile than the Soviet Pritchard added that because of the versions, we pay for those benefits in fuel requirements of their conventional terms of ruggedness; their chances of motors, diesel submarines are range- surviving a direct hit are not as good as limited. "The fuel resources they have those of the double-hulled Soviet on board are finite," he said. "They "water tanks." The result, according to have only a certain amount of diesel one Navy source, is that "even if our fuel." By contrast, nuclear submarines sub takes one or two of their subs down normally are refueled no more than with it, it's a losing game." once every seven years.

The Navy stressed that none of this is ASIDE from the noise issue, diesel to be interpreted as a blanket condemna- subs are not suited for the search- tion of diesel vessels. "They're very and-destroy missions that form effective for operations close to home," the basis of America's "forward- Lehman said. "There, you don't have to ENDURANCE— The Ohio-class ballistic- missile submarines have the speed to deployment" naval game plan. They transit at speed, and you can stay on keep up with aircraft carriers. simply are not built for racing across battery from one to three knots for more foreign waters. Said Lehman, "Diesel than 24 hours without having to sur- subs are useless for moving with the face." He pointed out that our current tity. Noting the overwhelming Soviet carriers that operate at 30 knots, and naval strategy relies on NATO's diesel edge in sheer numbers, Adm. Bruce they are useless for operations that re- submarines to provide coastal defense Demars told a Senate subcommittee, quire long transits — which are our pri- of Europe while most of our fleet chases "We've been able to maintain a reasona- mary naval operations." the Soviet forces elsewhere. ble margin of security against these The nuclear sub's great advantage in But in the final analysis, the issue is odds only through the technical this area is its bountiful source of elec- really one of values and priorities. Rec- superiority of our submarines." trical energy. "You don't have to worry ognizing that we probably cannot win a Another Navy source put it more sim- about stopping and charging batteries," war of numbers with the Soviets, the ply: "All things considered, we would explained Navy Lt. Cmdr. Bob Pritch- Navy's position in recent years has been rather have 100 Los Angeles-c\ass nu- ard. "Instead of coming to the surface, to pursue quality at the expense of quan- clear subs than 300 diesel subs."

JANUARY 1988 39 Veterans update

KBeeping a promise he made to numerous Legion- So far the VA has denied disability claims for all but 28 of naires during his travels across the nation, Nat'l Cmdr. John the nearly 6,000 veterans who claim to be suffering from P. "Jake" Comer has arranged for a POW/MIA open forum to cancer or other radiation-linked diseases. VA Administrator be held Feb. 29 during the Washington Conference. Thomas K. Turnage said the federal government opposed "Many Legionnaires, especially members of local POW/ H.R. 1811 because the diseases are presumed — not proved MIA committees, told us that they feel they are being — to be service-connected. VA officials also said the bill shortchanged or receiving lip service whenever they try to represents a radical departure from the principle that veterans' express their views on the issue to Washington officials," benefits should be directly connected to military service. Comer said. "In fact, most of them said they would be willing In earlier testimony before the House Veterans Affairs to pay their own way to Washington if I could arrange a face- Subcommittee, a Legion spokesman told U.S. lawmakers to-face meeting with those government officials who are that "veterans who were exposed to ionizing radiation while responsible for resolving the POW/MIA matter." serving in the U.S. armed forces continue to find it exceed- Comer said that nearly every post he has visited promi- ingly difficult, if not impossible, to receive favorable nently displayed a POW/MIA flag and an empty chair as determination on their disability-compensation claims. graphic reminders that "the return of our POW/MIAs is a "It has been known for more than 40 years that exposure to major concern of our members. Arranging for this forum is ionizing radiation is dangerous to human health, yet nothing one way to show them that it is a major concern of the has been done to help veterans who were unknowingly national organization as well." exposed to high levels of radiation," the spokesman said. "So

Among the officials invited to participate in the forum are: far as The American Legion is concerned, it is the U.S. Richard T. Childress, director of Asian and Pacific affairs. government that has been neither responsible nor responsive National Security Council staff; Gen. John W. Vessey Jr., to these veterans." USA (Ret.), special POW/MIA emissary of the President; Brig. Gen. James W. Shufelt, deputy director of operations, plans and training, Defense Intelligence Agency; Richard L. D Armitage, assistant secretary of defense. International Wranch-of-service inscriptions for veterans Security Affairs; George L. Brooks, chairman. National headstones and markers are now being provided by the VA at League of POW/MIA Families; Albert J. Bland, national government expense. Until a recent policy change, multiple- commander of American Ex-Prisoners of War; and Keith branch inscriptions were permitted below the last line of the Baker, chairman, the American Legion Special POW/MIA authorized inscription, but only at private expense. Committee. In another change of policy, the VA is delivering all Comer said the forum will include discussions about headstones and markers by private carrier. Headstones POW/MIAs of World War II, Korea and Vietnam. traditionally have been shipped by private carrier, but bronze markers now are being handled in the same manner. VA officials said that all requests for headstones and markers must include a street address because post-office box num- Legion testimony to Congress criticizing the bers cannot be used for shipping purposes. way the VA is treating radiation-exposed veterans has A government headstone or marker is furnished to mark apparently paid off. On July 28, the House passed a bill to the graves of veterans and their dependents interred in provide benefits to these veterans and their survivors. H.R. national cemeteries and, upon request, to mark the graves of 1811, which has been sent to the Senate for further action, veterans interred in private cemeteries. would recognize several diseases that the Legion has urged be considered service-connected for compensation purposes. With the exception of chronic lymphatic leukemia, the diseases include all other forms of leukemia; thyroid cancer; bronchogenic carcinoma; pancreatic cancer; breast cancer; Legislation tO Correct an oversight in provisions and cancers of the pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small of the new GI Bill should have little trouble passing the intestine and colon. The bill, sponsored by Rep. J. Roy House, according to Washington sources. The GI Bill, passed Rowland of Georgia, would require the VA to pay benefits to last June, inadvertently allows the government to keep certain veterans exposed to radiation while in service if those money paid into a college-education fund by military men veterans developed any of the aforementioned types of cancer and women who were killed on active duty. within 30 years of exposure and suffered at least 10 percent The Legion is joined by other veterans' organizations, as disability as a result. Radiation exposure must have occurred well as DoD officials and members of Congress, in support- as a result of nuclear testing from 1945 to 1963, or during the ing a change in the bill that would return the education occupation of Japan before 1946. contributions of deceased military men and women to their The DoD estimates about 220,000 military personnel were next of kin. Legion Res. 2, passed at this year's convention, exposed to low levels of radiation in atmospheric nuclear test supports the change. explosions from 1945 to 1963, and in the military occupation "The U.S. Treasury should not benefit from the deaths of of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where the United States dropped these soldiers," said Rep. Jim Slattery of Kansas. "It is an atomic bombs. inequity created by Congress, and Congress must correct it."

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Legion Disagrees

With CDC Decision On Agent Orange Agent Orange Study by rHEthe Centers for Disease Con- trol is dangerously close to being canceled. After two rocky years, CDC has decided that it cannot complete the study, saying that not enough soldiers were exposed to significant levels of the herbicide. The decision was based on a dioxin-valida- tion study that compared the amounts of dioxin in the blood of more than 700 veterans— 600 who served in Vietnam and 100 who served in other countries. The purpose of the study reportedly was to determine the usefulness of military records in estimating ground troops' exposure to Agent Orange. The American Legion has criticized CDC's conclusion that the Agent Orange Study cannot be done. Legion officials have pointed out that the OBSERVANCE — Nat'l Cmdr. John P. "Jake" Comer (second from left) salutes the United States sprayed 10 million to 12 nation's war veterans during the 34th annual Veterans Day ceremonies at Arlington million gallons of Agent Orange over National Cemetery. The event, which was accompanied by a storm that dumped 15 inches of snow on the Washington area, featured a wreath-laying ceremony that Vietnam— a country that is smaller than included President Reagan and other military and government leaders. The American Jersey. "Thus it is absurd to say New Legion hosted the observance. that there are not enough people to study," a Legion spokesman said. The Legion voiced its concern about the composition of the study more than a year ago. Among the veterans elimi- Using APO, FPO THANKS A MILLION! nated from consideration were those Donors who have contributed $50 who served more than one tour in Viet- Can Save Money or more to the American Legion nam, those who served in a unit for Child Welfare Foundation as of fewer than 180 days, persons above the living in ZEGIONNAIRES Nov. 13: rank of E-5 and those who transferred foreign countries who are eligi- Robert Porter Florida from one unit to another during their ble to use APO or FPO addresses Arthur R Oger West Virginia are to provide National Robert C. Preble Jr. Illinois tours. The spokesman said about 83 asked Harry Wright Mexico percent of the original study subjects Headquarters with those addresses. Use William E. Christoffersen Utah Joseph Holzka New York were disqualified based on the criteria of the APO or FPO mailing addresses Donald E. Johnson Iowa Bob Scott Oregon set by CDC. "There is no doubt that can not only speed up delivery of The Patricia Comer New York were heavily exposed to Agent Legion and Sen. Francis Doris Massachusetts many American Magazine Veterans Life Insurance Co. Pennsylvania Orange," he said. other correspondence, but also can save Robert F. Marek Idaho Margaret Wilson Massachusetts NatT Cmdr. John P. "Jake" Comer the Legion a considerable amount of Ruth Berry Iowa Thomas M. Llewellyn Kansas said the Legion will continue to push money in postage, which could be used Germaine Desjarlais Florida Alma Pierson Massachusetts "It is the productively for Legion programs. for an Agent Orange Study. more Boston Whaler's Co. Massachusetts responsibility of the federal govern- Headquarters officials request that W.R Petersen Montana Melville W. and Belmeda Pratt Massachusetts ment to use all resources available to Legionnaires who are not already using Gina (wishes to remain anonymous) Illinois Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Lawson Massachusetts determine the effects of Agent Orange APO or FPO addresses submit change- Gilberto M. Font Puerto Rico Oliver A. Watkins Arizona notices to Circulation Dept. and then to adequately compensate of-address Norma Lee Clise West Virginia those veterans who have incurred dis- The American Legion, P.O. Box 1954, Sarah Elam Virginia Beta Sigma Phi Alpha New Hampshire Please turn to page 54 Indianapolis, IN 46206.

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Do you have questions about your veter- for non-college-degree students. Under ans' benefits? The American Legion quarterly certification, students usually Magazine answers those questions in received checks on the first of each this column. We regret that we cannot month. With the monthly format, veter- personally answer each query. Write to ans and eligible dependents will typi- The American Legion Magazine, cally receive their checks sometime Veterans Adviser Editor, P.O. Box 1055, between the 15th and 25th of each Indianapolis, IN 46206. month, instead of at the beginning of the month. Q. May a veteran name a minor child as the principal beneficiary of Q- Is there a time limit on filing for his NSLI policy? reimbursement of the cost of a non- A Yes. If the beneficiary is still a government headstone placed in a minor at the time of the veteran's private cemetery? death, the VA will provide assistance in A Yes. The claim must be filed within supervising the payment of proceeds. two years of either the date of burial or the date of purchase of a pri- Q a My grandfather was a patient in vately purchased headstone or marker. a VA nursing home. He recently passed away, and we are applying for Q a My husband was cremated, and burial benefits. Can we claim trans- his ashes were scattered without in- portation expenses? terment of any portion of the ashes. Transportation costs of remains A May I still obtain a memorial marker veteran are authorized when the for him? dies in a VA medical facility. memorial may be erected Here's why. International Coins A Yes. The Currency, Inc. of Montpelier, Ver- in a private cemetery or memorial & Q. My husband is a WWI veteran mont is confident that once you try section of a national cemetery. who is not eligible for VA pension us, you'll decide to use our rare coin benefits because of income stan- services again and again. That's why Qa My spouse is retired from the dards. Is he eligible for VA outpatient we're willing to risk losing money armed forces and rated 100 percent treatment? with this "get acquainted" offer. by the VA for service-connected dis- Yes. A WWI veteran may be pro- A abilities. Do I have the option of vided VA outpatient treatment for .ere's the offer. For the next 7 choosing Civilian Health and Medi- H. any condition even though he is not days, or as long as supplies last, we'll cal Program of the Uniformed Serv- receiving VA pension benefits. sell new customers guaranteed Very ices (CHAMPUS) or Civilian Health Fine Morgan silver dollars in and Medical Program of the VA Qa I receive service-connected disa- pre-1904 mixed dates for only $19.75 coverage? compensation based on a rating (CHAMPVA) each in rolls of 20. Each coin is bility No. If your spouse retired from the strictly graded VF according the of- of 30 percent. I just got married. Can A a armed forces, you must apply for ficial of the American I receive additional funds for my standards CHAMPUS. Numismatic Association. Individual wife? coins are available for $25 each, Yes. Veterans whose service-con- A Qa I am a veteran who would like to half-rolls of 10 for $225 (save $25), nected disabilities are rated at 30 rolls of for $395 (save $105). start a small business. How can I ob- and 20 percent or more are entitled to addi- Order #11952. Limit 3 rolls (60 tain a VA small-business loan? tional allowances for dependents. coins) per customer. A The VA does not have a small-busi- Qa I am enrolled in a vocational ness-loan program. The Small Bus- programs to H..ere's how to take us up on program in school and receive educa- iness Administration has the offer. To order by credit card, tion benefits under the GI Bill. I have assist veterans in obtaining small-busi- call toll-free 1-800-451-4463 at any recently experienced problems in ness loans. In each SBA field office hour. Or send a check or money receiving my VA checks on the first of there is a veterans-affairs officer to order to: International Coins & Cur- each month. Will my checks continue assist veterans. Check the U.S. govern- rency, Inc., 11 E. State St., Box 218, to be late every month? ment section of your local phone book Dept. 405, Montpelier, VT 05602. VA recently changed from for the address of the nearest SBA Add $3.75 for postage and handling. BThe quarterly to monthly certification office. 15-day money-back guarantee.

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36th Station Hospital (NP) (England-WWII) (June- 300th Combat Engr. Bn. (June-Dallas, TX) Willie Hein.

Houston) Paul Block, 3415ShadycrestDr., Pearland.TX Rt. 1, Box 74, Wallis.TX 77485 (409) 478-6320 OUTFIT REUNIONS 77581(713)485-1615 311th F.A. Bn., 79th Div., A Btry. (WWII) (June-McMinn- 49th F.A. Bn., 7th Div. (WWII) (June-Kingston, OK) Marvin ville, TN) M.B. Hillis, Rt. 9, Box 7, McMinnville, TN 37110 Guidelines — Outfit Reunion notices are published for Kimble, Box 444, Hydro, OK 73048 (615) 668-8787 Legionnaires only and must be submitted on official 50th Trans. Med. Truck APO 719 (Okinawa, 1953-55) 312th F.A. Bn., 79th Inf. (WWII) (Apr-Pawleys Island, SC) forms. To obtain forms, send a self-addressed, stamped (June-Little Rock, AR) Bobby Hopper, Box 575, James Chandler, 430 Highmarket St., Box 533, George- envelope to: Form, The American Legion Magazine, O R Springdale, AR 72765 (501 ) 756-3053 town, SC 29442 (803) 546-6541 P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, IN 46206. Notices must be 57th Field Hospital (July-Minneapolis) A D. Easley, 2221 334th Ord. Dep. Co. (May-Fayetteville, NC) Wallace

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Rgt., 2nd Arm'd Div., H Co. 2159 Sequoia Dr., Hemet, CA 92343 (714) 652-3087 410th AAA Bn., D Btry. (WWII) (Aug-Rockton. PA) John (June-Nashville, TN) Clarence Crumpton, 412 Dunn's 88th Inf. Div. (Sept-Cincinnati) C.W. Waters, Box 925, Conway, Box 56, Rockton, PA 15856 (814) 583-5477 Mtn. Rd., Salisbury, NC 28144 (704) 279-7880 Havertown. PA 19083 410th Inf. D Co. (Sept-Mt. Pleasant, IA) Virgil Morris, Rt.4, 3rd Chemical, 4.2 Mortar Bn. (July-Atlanta) Quentin 89th FA Bn. (Jan-Gainesville, FL) L.W. LeGrand, Box 422, Box 21, Mt. Pleasant, IA 52641 (319) 986-6848 486-4543 Unger, 6016Torrey Pines Dr., Ocala. FL 32672 (904) Bronson, FL 32621 (904) 444th Signal Bn., B Co. (June-Pittsburgh) Harry Smith, 624-0937 96th Inf. Div. (July-Peoria, IL) William Broschk, 17819 S. 57 Pacemaker Plz., Toronto, OH 43964 (614) 537-2121 5th Arm'd Div. Assn. (WWII) (Oct-W. Palm Beach, FL) Station Rd., Columbia-Station, OH 44028 (216) 236- 455th Ord. Evac. Co. (WWII) (June-New York City) John Will Cook, 13344 Luthman Rd., Minster, OH 45865 (419) 5141 DiGiorgio, 318 Stoodley PL, Schenectady, NY 12303 628-4032 103rd Combat Engrs. (June-Marietta, OH) Charles (518) 355-3902 Rt 1. Marietta, 373- 5th US Inf. Rgt. (July-Portland, ME) Paul Haney, 107 New McFarland. Box 84, OH 45750 (614) 456th AAA AW Bn. (June-Charlottesville, VA) John York Ave., So. Portland, ME 04106 (207) 774-0630 7508 Hendrickson, 3907 Mill Creek Dr., Annandale, VA22003 7th Cav. Rgt., Heavy Mtr. Co. (1949-50) (Sept-Nashville. 106th Cav. (June-Champaign. IL) Fred Gourley, 1412 S. 467th AAA AW Bn., B Btry. (May-St. Louis) Ralph TN) Jack Couch, 5144 15th Ave. So., Minneapolis, MN Mattis, Champaign, IL 61821 (217)356-0491 Steinhoff, 4906 Howard St.. Skokie, IL 60077 (312) 675- 55417(612)822-6622 114th Inf., 44th Div. (June-Sioux Falls. SD) Curtis Eggers. 5327 Rt. Falls. 332-0718 9th Med. Bn., 9th Inf. Div., C Co. (July-Redmond. WA) 10. Box 74. Sioux SD 57101 (605) 475th AAA AW Bn. 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constantly struggling to feed my family while others possible . Thanks to Pace! to key positions on The Ameri- were striking it rich. Not being able to control my Mail Today for FREE FACTS. own destiny really got to me. can Legion national staff. Som- Earn big money selling part-time like Tedd One day I saw a Pace ad about a man who mer became director of the VA & R Divi- Mainwaring! Enjoy the financial security and earned $4,154.46 on just one Seamless Spray independence of your own business! Our sion upon the retirement of Robert E. order—without investing a penny of his own. I field-tested sales kit provides all the know how wrote for Free Information. And am I glad I did. Lyngh last month. Hovish took over as you need. No investment required ... No training. Becoming a Pace Dealer was the best move I ever Start making $1 550 a sale even to national librarian when Thomas V. Hull made. — up $7700 and more, send for FREE facts. No obligation. retired in October. What impressed me from the start was the unlimited number of Seamless Spray prospects. MAIL TODAY FOR FREE SALES KIT Sommer was deputy director of the Schools, Hospitals and Commercial buildings of all Washington-based division since 1982. types didn't have any choice but to spend a small Pace Products, Inc., Dept. AM- 188 fortune to renew their leaking roofs. Quality Plaza, 112th & College Blvd. He joined the national staff in 1974, P.O. Box 10925, Overland Park, KS 66210 Thanks to Pace, I can offer them a choice. I can after serving three years as director of renew their roofs and save them a fortune! The WITHOUT OBLIGATION rush me the FREE SALES KIT that tells me to have Pace Business. Rehabilitation and Services for the fact that General Motors, Holiday Inns and how my own No salesman will call. American Airlines were satisfied Pace customers Department of Ohio. was a real sales clincher! Print Name Hovish comes to the Legion from My first few calls were not big successes—but Address Utica, N.Y. , where he was assistant then it happened! My first sale. It was to renew a school roof that had been leaking for 25 years. City State Zip director of the public library.

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58 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE , ' Why Are We Offering These Famous Nationally Advertised M SWIFT 660/F ™ Telescoping Spin Rods for only^^?

As part of its Anniversary Publicity Campaign, a leading New York firm will distribute one million (1,000,000) of its most expensive spin rods—the Famous Nationally Advertised™ SWIFT-660/F" Telescoping WhisperCast™ WhamRod™—for the astonishing "Anniversary Price" of only $5 each to the first one million persons who write to the company address (below) before midnight, March 27, 1988. EXTRA BONUS These are the same famous SWIFT-660/F Telescoping WhisperCast WhamRods nationally advertised in leading If you media. A full standard 66 inches from base to tip, they respond spring to complete length in an eye-blinking 6/10ths ofa second!. ..then telescope down to a mere 16 inches promptly for easy storage in kit bag, glove compartment or attache case.

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1 . PRICE BREAK! Only a few years ago we were selling our 8. MONEY BACK GUARANTEE— If you are not satis- religion, it five Morgan Silver Dollar Sets for $250. 00 per set—so you national was inserted before fied for any reason, you may return your coins within 1 5 days save twice as much! for a full refund. The Numismatic Guild, dealers in rare gold would satisfy the minds of honorable 2. MOST SOUGHT AFTER COINS—Considered by ex- and silver coins since 1947, is a member in good standing perts to be the peak of the engraver s art, Morgan solid silver gentlemen. He believed that the people of the S.P.N., the Retail Coin Dealers Association and the dollars of 412.5 grains of ninety percent fine silver. .77344 I.N.S. We guarantee all our coins to be original United States feared one or sects to- oz. pure silver, are the most sought after coins ever minted two combined Mint issue in fine condition containing appropriate sig- in the Gnited States. natures, dates and mint marks. gether might obtain a pre-eminence and 3. NO LONGER IN CIRCULATION—Dated from 1878 to CREDIT CARD H0LDERS-F0R FASTEST DELIVERY 1921. these coins have become so popular that collectors establish a religion to which they would CALL 24 HOURS A DAY— 7 DAYS A WEEK and investors have been hoarding them for years. As a compel others to conform. He thought result, along with the fact that millions of these coins have been melted down for their silver content, there are no 1-800-847-4100 if the word national was introduced, it 1 longer any Morgan Silver Dollars in circulation. (New York Slate residents call 212-947-7022) the directly to 4. A MONEY SAVING OFFER! Now, due to a special pur- TO ORDER BY MAIL: Please print your name and address would point amendment chase of these historic coins, we are able to make them clearly- Specify how many Morgan Silver Dollar Sets you the object it was intended to prevent." available to you in this money saving offer. However, due to wish to order. Each set is just '98.00 plus $7.50 postage market fluctuations, we can guarantee this offer for the next and handling. Please include your phone number so we This is only a sample of the volumi- 2 weeks only!' may confirm your correct address. Enclose a check, money 5. INCREASED VALUE OVER LAST 10 YEARS—Silver order or Credit Card number and expiration date. We accept nous evidence showing the authentic MasterCard. Dollar coins in general have increased in value over ten Visa. American Express. Diners Club and meaning of the establishment clause, times in the last ten years. Some Morgan Silver Dollars sell Choice. (Mew York State residents, please add sales tax.) for as much as $20,000 and one in prime mint condition Send to THE NUMISMATIC GUILD which had nothing to do with banning recently sold for $42,500. , 1937 The numismatic Gum 35 West 35th Street. Dept. AL-652 New York, M Y 10001 prayer or religious observance at the federal level, much less in the schools or other institutions of the states. The Be Your Own Boss and Make overwhelming conclusion from such data— and countless others that might be cited— is that the current reading of the First Amendment is an intellectual $18.00 deception, standing the Constitution on

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It was Nov. 7 — day 14 in the ordeal of the Americans presented Tkachenko Deciding reluctantly that nothing Miroslav Medvid. with a carton of cigarettes as a "going- more could be done, U.S. officials re- Committee staffers Terry Wear and away gift." Hidden inside were copies leased the seaman to the Soviets after David Sullivan flew immediately to of the Medvid subpoena. obtaining Medvid's signed "statement New Orleans; at 10:30 p.m., they went "Wear and Sullivan were jubilant," of intent." At 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 29, aboard the Soviet freighter to serve the said the CSCE account, "believing that Medvid boarded the Marshal Konev for subpoena. Their request to see Medvid Customs would now detain the Konev the last time. In Washington, the State was denied, however, and Captain until Medvid was produced. They were Department announced, "The case is Tkachenko refused to accept the sub- as yet unaware of decisions in closed." poena on Medvid's behalf, insisting Washington to refrain from enforce- Not on Capitol Hill, however. A that the Americans await the arrival of a ment actions regarding the subpoena." number of senators, described as being Soviet embassy official. On Nov. 9, as Coast Guard vessels turned away a small boat carrying signs saying "STOP" (for "Save the Op- EXCLUSIVE FORMULATION USED BY AIRLINES—NOW AVAILABLE TO CAR OWNERS pressed People"), the Marshal Konev departed for the Soviet Union with a " Glass Shield keeps all car windows cargo of American grain and a Ukrainian seaman named Miroslav Medvid. PERFECTLY CLEAR AT ALL TIMES... The CSCE found no evidence of high-level U.S. -Soviet collusion in the ABSOLUTELY NOTHING CAN STICK TO THEM... case, as some rumors had alleged. Nor was there any evidence that the Soviets • NOT SNOW • NOT SLEET had switched Medvid for an impostor • NOTICE • NOT GRIME after the seaman's forcible return to his • NOT DIRT • NOT RAIN ship. But the commission's inves- • NOT BUGS • NOT TAR tigators concluded that "White House, National Security and Justice Depart- — • NOT SALT SPRAY ment officials deviated from constitu- lasts for Six HOT SOLO IK STORES One Application up to Months! tionally and congressionally mandated procedures," adding that "this fail- GLASS SHIELD utilizes the formulation ure. . . constitutes a violation of law." It now used by most commercial and private Glass Shield- planes to insure a perfectly clear windshield determined that State Department offi- • STOPS ICE, SNOW AND SLEET FROM regardless of how foul the weather. 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70 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE the United States and to the Free-World insurgency. Among other things, order THE PHILIPPINES nations in East Asia, stabilizing the must be restored in the military ranks, Philippines is much more important. I and key military deficiencies must Continuedfrom page 25 be believe that the future of the bases will addressed. If democracy is to survive in be ensured if the internal threats to the the Philippines, its president must have Philippines can be eliminated. a strong and loyal military. served a political purpose. But it was 0. What should the United States not economically viable; it alienated Please additional informa- do to help the Philippines? send me it even the small landowners; and tion on how I can become a "Paid up Our primary objective must be to showed little awareness of the implica- A for Life" Member. a help the Philippine government tions of breaking up the large, efficient Fill out this coupon or a facsimile and achieve domestic security and gain the agriculture enterprises. mail to: The American Legion National confidence of its people. The Philippine The vital issue of land reform is too Headquarters, PUFL, P.O. Box 1055, ship of state cannot long proceed with- complex to be discussed in summary Indianapolis, IN 46206. out a firm hand on the tiller. fashion. Let me say that land should be NAME The United States must persuade the made available to those landless people ADDRESS Philippine government to take what- who want to be farmers. This can be ever measures are necessary to deal CITY accomplished largely by using govern- with its gravest danger; this means de- STATE ZIP ment-owned, sequestered or idle tracts. veloping and mounting a comprehen- MEMBERSHIP The situation is different in each of the sive campaign against the communist CARD NUMBER various provinces, and any law must take this into account. Finally, a suc- cessful program requires more than dis- tribution of land. The government must provide credits for tools, fertilizers and seeds; technical assistance; and coop- Keep Your erative arrangements — all the things that made possible the agricultural miracle in Taiwan in the '50s. I hope that the ultimate legislation will reflect Winning Smile these essentials. professional Q a Didn't Aquino recently order police to destroy the barricades erected by striking workers, thus reopening many factories? DENTU-PIK Yes. The police did take down the A harmful dental plaque barricades, and Labor Secretary removes Drillon ordered workers to negotiate before plaque removes with management. your teeth This event demonstrates that while the communist unions will test the gov- ernment, they will back off when they are confronted by force. It remains to be seen whether the government can sus- tain its firmness, for the communists will test it again. As Lenin said, "Two steps forward, one back."

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Parting shots

Election Bored Politicians often leave us with our mouths wide open. One day, we're star- tled. The next day, we're yawning. —Gil Stern

Working Mother In a small mountain town, a man appeared in the doctor's office early one morning. He asked the nurse whether she and the doctor would come right out to his ranch, where his wife was having a baby. The nurse called the doctor at his home and briefed him. "Ask the man how long his wife has been in labor," the doctor said. The nurse did, and got a quick answer: "Tell Doc she's worked all her 'Because he showed the most interest in my money, life."

I'm leaving it to my nephew Morris. — Tom Taylor

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