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IfCTC A nRAfi nu TUE RlinRET? VC lo fl UHAU UN 1 IIE dUUuE I : You can't repay a blood debt with money. By Charley Reese 14

TUE IME TREATY* DEAPE III RIIR TIME? 1 nc inr i heiii i. rcAbc in uun i ime :

h it a step towardpeace, or thefirst step to denuclearize Europe? By RichardPerk 18

THEinc mnRNYnunni rnuDLCinPRHRLEM urOF VERIFICATIGNvcniriuHiiun Why enter into new treaties when the Soviets are violating existing ones? 21

WHY INF IS GOOD FOR NATO Western security is enhanced when all work together to meet a common th'eat. ByLt. Gen. Colin Powell 22

WHY DEFENSE COSTS SO MUCH .." "By2025, we'll be able to afford exactly one bomber. ButifllbeaverygoocI bomber By Steve Salerno 24

'30 SECONDS OVER TOKYO' Doolittle's raid strippedJapan ofits claim to invincibility. ByPhilNelson 26

VIDEO FLEA MARKETS: AMERICA'S NEW RAGE TVbrings bargains to your livingroom. By Phyllis Zauner 28

SNUFFING OUT YESTERDAY'S KILLERS Onlyyesterday, infectious diseases were the nation's leading cause ofdeatl ByJayStuller 30

ASTRONGER VOICE FOR VETERANS VA Cabinet status willgive veterans thepolitical clout they deserve. By Harry N. Walters 34

CHILD WELFARE FOUNDATION: FOUNDATION WITH A FUTURE A message worth repeating: "We need$l million to keep DEPAR TMENTS

BIG ISSUES Should Congress Ratify The INFTreaty WithoutAmendments? 8

COMMANDER'S MESSAGE 3 VETERANS UPDATE 32 VETERANS ALERT 40

DATELINE WASHINGTON 6 LEGION NEWS BRIEFS 38 PARTING SHOTS 59

LEHERS 18

COVER Worldpartnersforpeace? Photos by Chick Harrity/U.S. News & WorldReport, and the D^artment ofDefense.

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Commander's message A MILLION-DOLLAR LEGACY FOR OUR KIDS: CHILD WELFARE FOUNDATION

THE American Legion BSA to fully fund its "Scouting for the were to survive a thousand Handicapped" training program.

years, I cannot imagine These programs represent just a frac- any greater contribution tion of the Legion's service to young nFit could make to this nation people. Visit any post, and you will see than its enduring com- programs that focus on children and mitment to the health youths — prevention of teen-age suicide, and welfare of America's child abuse and neglect, child abduc- youths. tion and missing children, child por-

That is why when I was elected nography, drug and alcohol abuse — all

National Commander, I challenged waged on behalf of those who are pow- each of you to help raise $1 million for erless to help themselves. the American Legion Child Welfare This month, in recognition of the Foundation. As of February, you have 50th year in which April has been cele- donated more than $250,000 toward brated as Children and Youth month, that goal — a goal that we will reach all posts that participate in children- because Legionnaires never have let and-youth events will receive special America's young people down. citations from national headquarters. Since its creation in 1954, due, in Letters have gone out to department large part, to the vision of its founder. adjutants and to children-and-youth " Nat' I Cmdr. John P. "Jake Comer Dr. Garland D. Murphy Jr. (Ark.), The chairmen, requesting that the names of American Legion Child Welfare Foun- participating posts be submitted to the dation has awarded $2.2 million in required to ensure that government Children and Youth Division, P. O. Box grants to organizations whose pro- serves the people. 1055, Indianapolis, IN 46206. grams provide a healthy, educational Another program, the Legion Through the years, Legionnaires environment for our children. I believe National High School Oratorical Con- have been among the first to tackle the that the Child Welfare Foundation truly test, attracts thousands of students each problems that our young people face. is a "Foundation With A Future." year. While developing their public- We don't pretend to have all the Through it, we can ensure that our speaking skills and receiving a greater answers, but we are always ready to nation's future leaders will grow up appreciation for the U.S. Constitution, back up rhetoric with financial sup- with the physical and spiritual strength the students also compete for scholar- port. Last year alone. The American they need to meet the challenges ahead. ship prizes at the post, district, depart- Legion spent more than $36 million on But the Child Welfare Foundation is ment and national levels. Legion posts programs for America's youths. This just part of the myriad Legion pro- gave more than $1.5 million in scholar- year, with the Child Welfare Founda- grams that enhance the lives of children ships last year. tion as the flagship of our commitment, in every town and city across America. Not enough can be said about the we expect no less. This month, as the Legion celebrates American Legion Baseball program, in All of us can help by doing our parts

Children and Youth month, it is espe- which 76,000 youths annually are in recruiting new members. As an cially fitting to recognize the positive groomed in such qualities as self-dis- added incentive this year, a Chrysler influence of these programs. cipline, fair play and the will to suc- New Yorker Landau, donated by the Each year in 49 states and the Dis- ceed. Nearly 3,900 posts sponsored Chrysler Corp., will be given, by a trict of Columbia, more than 28,000 baseball teams, and other posts spon- drawing at the Louisville national con- young men participate in The Amer- sored more than 2,500 other athletic vention, to a member of the elite Gold ican Legion's Boys State and Boys teams in 1986-1987, spending $7.4 Brigade of The American Legion. Any Nation. These weeklong civic work- million in support. Legionnaire can become a member of shops are designed to make them more Since the early days of our organiza- the brigade by recruiting 50 or more informed, responsible citizens. In simi- tion, the Legion has been a staunch members by May 2. lar fashion. Girls State and Girls supporter of the Boy Scouts of Membership means growth for The Nation, sponsored by the Auxiliary, America. Last year, posts sponsored American Legion. As our membership help young women become more aware 64,000 youths in 2,400 scouting units. increases, so do the opportunities we of the responsibilities of elected offi- The Child Welfare Foundation awarded have to serve the nation's veterans, cials, and of the tough decisions its largest grant ever — $60,000 — to their families and our youths.

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Protecting The Elderly • The April 1986 bombing of Americans in West Berlin. • The attempt to blow up a civilian airliner in Great Britain Because of continuing media coverage of child abuse, the in November 1986. issue of abuse among the elderly has been virtually over- • The attempt to destroy a commercial airliner in Madrid looked by the public — but not by Congress. in June 1986. Sen. Paul Simon of Illinois and Rep. Claude Pepper of • Providing training and other support for terrorist organi- Florida have introduced legislation that would help end the zations such as Saiqa, the Abu Mousa faction of the Palestine abuse, neglect and exploitation of our nation's senior citi- Liberation Organization, the Habash Popular Front for the zens. According to Simon, about I.I million elderly Ameri- Liberation of Palestine and the Democratic Front for the cans—one of every 25 — are subject to emotional, financial Liberation of Palestine. or physical mistreatment. The proposed bill requires each state to implement a Therapeutic Pets? program to prevent abuse of the elderly. Simon said that since 1981 federal funding for state protective services has been cut There is increasing evidence that pets are therapeutic for by more than 20 percent. While states spend an average of the elderly and disabled, according to Sen. William Proxmire $22 per child for protective services, said Simon, they spend of Wisconsin. only $2.90 for each elderly resident. Proxmire, who successfully pushed for legislation that allows pets in subsidized federal housing, said he believes Reunion Registry that serious research in this field will demonstrate that the aged and disabled respond to animals such as cats, birds and A large group of senators is supporting a bill that would rabbits in a way that makes them feel better. Pets often raise create a "lost-and-found" agency for adopted children and the quality of life for people, especially those who live in their biological parents. The measure would establish a nursing homes, by keeping them interested, active and National Voluntary Reunion Registry in the Department of responsible, the legislator told his colleagues. Health and Human Services. At a recent workshop held at the National Institutes of According to Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, a leading Health, a VA staff member said that nursing-home residents sponsor of the legislation, the Congressional Research who are around pets are more alert and less depressed, even Service estimates that 10 million Americans are adopted and though there may be no real improvement in their physical that 2 million of them are actively searching for their birth conditions. parents. Almost as many of those parents are trying to find the children they gave up for adoption. The registry, like those already operating in 18 states, Cultural Thieves would be computerized, and would reunite children and Grave robbers, ranging from amateur collectors to parents only if the parties demonstrate mutual interest. organized criminals, are stealing the nation's archaeological

heritage, and little is being done to halt it, according to Ph.D.s For Sale Sen. Peter Domenici of New Mexico, who has introduced legislation seeking to prevent the plundering. There seems to be insatiable demand from abroad for Eighty years ago. Congress adopted the Antiquities Act to America's advanced scientific and engineering knowledge. protect U.S. archaeological resources. The law was Recent studies indicate that foreign students are earning toughened in 1979 to impose severe criminal penalties for more than half of the Doctor of Philosophy degrees in unauthorized excavation of cultural artifacts on federal engineering granted by American universities. lands. However, the statute has mostly been ignored, and A survey conducted by the National Science Foundation less than 2 percent of violations have resulted in felony found that in 1985, about 57 percent of U.S. doctoral degrees convictions. Meanwhile, looters are stalking historical sites in engineering went to foreign citizens; 40 percent of Ameri- for artifacts that may sell for as much as $180,000 each. can math and computer-science doctorates also went to Domenici said that burial mounds contain records of the foreigners. nation's past and should be preserved. His bill calls for About 345,000 foreign students currently are studying in federal surveying and protection of the sites. U.S. institutions of higher education; 66,000 of them are taking graduate courses. The report raises at least one public- policy question: To what extent are U.S. taxpayers subsidiz- Quote Of The Month ing the education of foreign students? "What should we expect from arms control? We should Syria Tops in Terrorism expect an arms-control accord to increase strategic stability and thereby reduce the risk ofwar ( the most vital goal ofall), to It's not Libya but Syria that gets Congress' vote as the reduce nuclear weapons to equal and substantially lower " No. 1 sponsor and supporter of terrorism. levels, and to be effectively verifiable. Congress blames Syria, the only Middle Eastern country Kenneth L. Adelman that is backing Iran in its war with Iraq, for a long list of Former director, U.S. Arms Control terrorist actions, including: and Disarmament Agency

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SHOULD CONGRESS RATIFY THE INF TREATYWITHOUT AMENDMENTS?

Sen. Tom Harkin, D-lowa Sen. Larry Pressler, R-South Dakota

Assuming that no sur- It is my strong feeling that prises surface during the Senate has an impor- the Senate review of the NO tant, positive role to play INFTreaty, I will enthusiastically sup- in the ratification of the INFTreaty. This port its ratification. includes considering amendments, reser- The INF Treaty will remove from vations, understandings and other con-

Europe nuclear weapons that have more ditions. Approval of treaty ratification is

than 100 times the explosive power of all the Senate's constitutional duty, and it the bombs used in World War II. More should not take that duty lightly. important, the agreement paves the way for even greater In the case of minor treaties, the Senate's approval of future reductions by both sides. ratification is fairly automatic. The INFTreaty, however, is a The treaty establishes several important precedents. Two major matter that has serious implications for U.S. and Free classes of nuclear weapons would be eliminated. On-site World security. Thus, the many hearings and extensive inspections would be established to verify the numbers of debates in which we will participate during the next several weapons and their subsequent destruction. Information months might be considered similar to the process by which would be exchanged on the characteristics and locations of the Senate authorizes major bills. For example. Senate existing weapons, and on manufacturing and storage action on the National Defense Authorization Act last year facilities. In another first, the Soviet Union will destroy consumed many months of time and effort.

twice as many missiles as the United States will. These I feel that there should be — and will be — amendments

Soviet missiles carry four times the explosive power of the to this treaty. Indeed, I already have filed an amendment American weapons that will be removed by this treaty. regarding the Soviet/Warsaw Pact advantage in conven-

For those who think that this treaty goes too far, it's worth tional forces in Europe. Currently, Soviet/Warsaw Pact noting that the superpowers would remove about 3 percent of conventional forces have about a 4-to-l advantage over all nuclear warheads, leaving more than 48,000 intact. U.S. /NATO forces in Europe. Soviet/Warsaw Pact troops Still, some senators believe that we should amend the also are more combat-ready than ours are. My amendment treaty to provide for unlimited on-site verification. In fact, calls for an agreement that would lead to a Soviet/Warsaw our own defense and intelligence agencies objected to such Pact conventional-force advantage of no more than 3-to-2.

changes, fearing the specter of KGB agents roving around I think that we all want to applaud President Reagan for our secret facilities. meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev and for moving toward an Others say that we should amend the treaty to address a agreement. But let us remember that the missiles were perceived imbalance in conventional weapons, or link the placed in Europe to protect the lives of our soldiers there. agreement to other issues, such as Afghanistan or human By removing our short- and intermediate-range missiles, we rights. These are important concerns, but they should be are giving up our trump card but letting the Soviets keep addressed in other forums. They should not be allowed to their trump card: conventional troops, tanks and aircraft. impede the ratification of a treaty that is in our best interest. There are other areas of concern as well, such as Soviet

As a longtime advocate of human rights. I won't be satis- behavior in Afghanistan and Nicaragua, and Soviet human- fied until all human-rights abuses by the Soviet Union are rights violations. But the conventional-force advantage eliminated. But history has shown that improved U.S.- certainly is directly relevant to this treaty. Soviet relations are the best impetus for greater openness in If predictions are correct, this treaty will be adopted

Soviet society. overwhelmingly. I hope that I can vote for it — but changes The Senate's "advise and consent" role includes the must be made. Amendments, conditions or provisions can duty to back the President strengthen this treaty. I to the fullest when he is YOUR OPINION COUNTS, TOO am confident that my col- right. We should support him leagues will be extremely Senators and congressmen are interested in constituent view- — not undermine his prog- diligent in carrying out points. You may express your views by writing The Honorable (name), ress in dealing with the U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510, or The Honorable (name), U.S. their constitutional duties gravest threat facing man- House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. 20515. as the treaty debate moves kind. to the Senate.

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wheels, I have sold half my blacksmith shop to Leonard Cooper, who has some experi- PROTOTYPE?' ence in building wagons. He sold me half of his barn, which is where he makes wagons. Since we didn't have any money, we made

the half-prices the same so that it didn't cost Five months and eight letters later, Andrew anybody anything. We are going right to work on the cannon still is enthusiastic about building a cannon, you asked for. It will be just like you said in the description, and we believe we can have but the Army isn 't making it easy. it done in six weeks. We didn't understand what you meant by "prototype," so we are

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until you explain what it is because we might do something wrong. Send a letter By Order the Commanding Officer ByJohn Rickey of back right away explaining that part. The cannon we are making will look like Conrad Scott, GS-I4 the picture we have drawn. The men who Weapons Procurement Board Colonial ^rmp pull the cannon the two miles every day will Bureau Ordnance of be able to get in between the bars on the Headquarters, Colonial Army January 19, 1777 shaft. You will notice we have fixed this Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania rather simple so that if they want to advance they just face the right of the picture and CS.gh Andrew Farnsworth push, and if they want to retreat they face Owner & Proprietor the left and pull. We are going to make it Farnsworth Blacksmith Shop easier to push than to pull so that it will & Cannon Works FARNSWORTH AND be easier to advance than retreat. That will Wilfred Corners, Massachusetts COOPER CANNON AND probably be another advantage of our can-

In Reph, CARRIAGE CO. non . . . soldier morale. Refer to: WPB-D-2419 Incidentally, you didn't say what color February 20. 1777 you wanted the wheels. We are using the Dear Mr. Farnsworth: Wilfred Corners wheels off of Cooper's old log wagon, and Independent Colony they are red. If that is OK, we won't paint Enclosed you will find Military Equipment of Massachusetts them again. That way we will cut the cost. Specification Number 891 outlining the characteristics of a cannon to be produced for the Colonial Army. As a manufacturer who has met the requirements of the Indus- trial Qualification Branch, your company is authorized to bid for the production of the following named item.

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5-SPEED MIXER The cost will be about $400, we figure. Weapons Procurement Board Kitchen Worksaver! Because of an We think that will be a good price. Bureau of Ordnance excess inventory, you can save BIG on Please let us know about that prototype Headquarters, Colonial Army this Chef's Delight Multi-Mixer. Put it to

thing, and where you want us to deliver the Philadelphia , Pennsylvania work for you in your kitchen for professional cooking results. Best of all, cannon when we get done with it. CS:gh this heavy-duty German-made mixer is Sincerely, at an unbelievable price BELOW dealer FARNSWORTH AND cost! Order today. Andrew Famsworth President COOPER CANNON AND •Heavy-Duty, Versatile Stand Mixer with Gear-Driven, Rotating Bowl. Famsworth & Cooper CARRIAGE CO. •Buttons to Raise Stand Arm and Lock. Cannon & Carriage Company •Use as Hand Mixer When the Recipe March 30. 1777 Calls for Portability. Wilfred Corners •Hinged Cord Allows Mixer to Rest on Independent Colony Heel. Makes it Easy to Place Anywhere. Colonial ^rmp of Massachusetts •Includes: Two Beaters, Pastry Whip and Dough Hooks for Mixing. Easy March 11, 1777 •Beater Ejection Button. U.L. Listed. Conrad Scott, GS-14 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania One-Year Ltd. Factory Warranty. Weapons Procurement Board Bureau of Ordnance Andrew Famsworth Mfr. List . . . »79.95 Headquarters. Colonial Army President Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Famsworth & Cooper Cannon & Liquidation ^ Carriage Company Dear Mr. Scott: Priced At Mi Wilfred Comers, Massachusetts Item H-3435-401 9-006 Fm sure sorry you made us stop working Shipping, handling: $5.50 ea. on our cannon because we were making In Reply, good progress with it. Now spring plowing Refer to: WPB-O-420 is almost here, and I will be busy with Credit card customers can order by plowshare sharpening. Leonard Cooper is phone, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Dear Mr Famsworth: helping Vance Putman build a sawmill on Toll-Free: 1-800-328-0609 I just got your letter today. Stop work on the Denshire Creek north of town, so we won't cannon immediately. You do not have a con- be able to work on the cannon for several tract yet. We cannot make payment for work weeks.

I Authorized Liquidator QQQD the 1405 Xenium Lane N/Minneapolis, MN 55441-4494 done on a government contract before However, if your letter comes telling us 1 Send Chefs Delight Mixer(s) Item H-3435-401 9-006 contract is let. to start work, we'll be at it every spare I at $29 per set, plus $5.50 per set for insured shipping, I moment. I hope our tight schedule won't handling. (Minnesota residents add 6% sales tax. Sorry, I As I said in my previous letter, we will review no CO D. orders.) interfere with your decision to have us build your proposal for a prototype of the cannon the cannon because we sure are anxious. you expect to build (and, I hope, have not yet completed). A prototype means the first of a Sincerely, kind. In other words, the first cannon you Andrew Famsworth build — unfortunately, the one you are building. President PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY Famsworth & Cooper Cannon Please do not do any more work on your can- & Carriage Company non until you hearfrom this office concerning Address the outcome of the proposal evaluation. PS. We put up a sign outside my shop show- I City ing our new name, but folks around still state By Order of the Commanding Officer know to bring their plowshares here for I Phone L sharpening. Conrad Scott, GS-14 Please turn to page 46

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from towns, from farms. They were By Charley Reese kids who had no vocation; they were plumbers, steelworkers, clerks, sales- having a pleasant men, bookkeepers, mechanics and any- telephone conversation thing else except professional soldiers. nWASrecently with a representa- They sailed into the stormy Atlantic tive of a veterans' organi- and the wide Pacific with a minimum of zation, when he made a training, and often with inadequate or statement that almost inferior weapons. They took their ridicu- broke my heart. "There lously high-profile, lightly armored, are a lot of us veterans." undergunned Sherman tanks against

he said, "and I know we the veterans of the German panzer are a drag on the budget. ..." corps. The Germans would kill four A drag on the budget? No, never. We tanks and four tank crews, but the fifth, have reached a sad state of affairs if which hadn't stopped coming, would some of these old heroes feel that way. get them.

If not for them, there would be no yup- And so it went. In Pacific jungles, in pies tooling around in expensive Jap- African deserts, in European snows, anese and German cars. they slogged on and on, making up with You may look at these veterans of guts and blood what they and the offi- World War II and only see men whose cers who led them lacked in experience. hair is gone or gray, men who have In Berlin and Tokyo, the wisest of the spreading stomachs and bent shoulders. enemy could feel doom like a cold stone These are the wounds of time, a foe no V childhood was safe in their stomachs. They knew that their man has ever conquered. leaders had wakened a sleeping giant. because these men put their But I see the real men, the heroes. I They knew that the soft-living, waste- see them with their smooth faces, clear bodies and their lives ful, ignorant, provincial Americans had eyes and flat stomachs, hanging out the more to them than could be seen on the between me and two powerful windows of troop trains and waving at surface. me, a barefoot kid in a sleepy Georgia war machines intent on The smart-aleck street kid would town. keep the plane flying if he had to fix it destroying this nation/^ That barefoot kid's peers in Europe, with hangers and chewing gum, and North Africa and the Philippines were another kid with peach fuzz on his face dying, were starving, were being exe- would fly it into hell. The boy who was cuted, were hiding in terror, were weep- never seen the ocean, much less a bat- too small for football would fight to the ing over dead parents and bombed-out tleship. Some had never driven a car. death, hand to hand, with Japanese homes. much less flown an airplane. infantrymen. When he died, his body But my childhood was safe because What did they know about world would be surrounded by the bodies of these men put their bodies and their politics? Almost nothing. What did enemies. lives between me and two powerful war they know about the enemy? Only that In the end, their guts, endurance and machines that were intent on destroying he was an enemy. What did they know ingenuity defeated the samurais and the this nation. They bought me a future, about weapons, tactics or strategy? Prussian professionals. A drag on the and they paid for it with their arms, legs Nothing. If you asked them to describe budget? Never. My generation and your and lives. I won't forget. I can't forget. Japan, show you Guadalcanal on a map generation never will repay the debt. They were magnificent. Many of or tell you where the Kasserine Pass is, You can't repay a blood debt with them had never been more than 200 you could have written the familiar money. miles from home. America was a land story about the deficiencies of public What's a life worth? What's a coun- of home folks then. Many people had education. Not one in 5,000 could have try worth? What's freedom worth? told you. Think about that the next time you see a

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amount— goes to help children." mark. I know we're not going to let them Since last fall's "Foundation With a down." Individual donations should be Justice Denied Future" drive to raise $1 million began. mailed to: Foundation With a Future, In Legionnaires, their posts and depart- P.O. Box 538, Indianapolis, IN 46206- "The Night Freedom Failed" (Jan- ments have been getting more involved. 0538. (See related article, page 34.) uary), the exhausted, drugged and ter- Comer, who originated the project, said The Editors rified defector Medvid, in reversing his plea for asylum, kept winking at the

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In oil previous orms-confrol negoflotions, the United Stotes occeded to Soviet demonds. But in the cose of ttie INF Treoty, the United Stotes wos determined not' to repeot the mistokes of the post Hos U.S. potience poid off?

By Richard N. Perle

ROM the beginning, the London, Schmidt called for a Western recommended that 500 to 1,000 mis- U.S. deployment of inter- response. NATO quickly responded to siles be deployed. NATO eventually

mediate-range missiles in his request. It created a committee settled on 572 missiles on eight bases in five European countries called the High-Level Group, which set five countries. had greater political than about producing a report aimed at When the NATO defense and foreign military significance. assessing the implications of the Soviet ministers met in 1979. they emphasized The decision to deploy deployment and recommending a that this deployment was a response to 108 Pershing II ballistic NATO response. The group met from the Soviet deployment and proposed missiles in West Germany, 1977 to 1979. examining the military that if the Soviets halted their SS-20 and 464 cruise missiles in West Ger- and political implications of NATO's program. NATO would abandon its many, the United Kingdom, Italy, Bel- options. INF plan. But Brezhnev wasn't gium and the Netherlands was made on The clear emphasis of the HLG interested; the plan implied that Amer-

Dec. 12, 1979, two weeks before the report was political. It recommended ican missiles in European territory were Soviets invaded Afghanistan. That that NATO deploy ground-based comparable to Soviet missiles in Soviet decision, reached at a meeting of medium-range missiles, which could territory. So only haphazard consulta- NATO defense and foreign ministers, strike targets in Soviet territory. How- tions were held between the outgoing

was NATO's answer to the Soviet ever, it rejected a proposal to deploy Carter administration and a midlevel deployment of the SS-20, a mobile bal- cruise missiles on submarines, which Soviet delegation in Geneva on the eve listic missile with a range of 4,000 would be less vulnerable to Soviet of the 1980 American presidential elec- kilometers and three independently attack than ground-based weapons tion. targeted warheads. would. HLG lacked the visibility to One of the current administration's That deployment and a major expan- make a political statement: If the earliest decisions, actually made dur- sion of the Soviets" medium-range- Soviets struck NATO with SS-20s. they ing the transition period in late 1980, missile force alarmed many Europeans would invite an attack on the Soviet was to continue NATO's policy of — notably West German Chancellor homeland by missiles based perma- negotiating with the Soviets while Helmut Schmidt. In a 1977 speech in nently in Europe. implementing the deployment decision HLG urged that the American of 1979. In May 1981 the new adminis- weapons be based in as many European tration announced its willingness to Richard N. Perle, former assistant secre- countries as possible, in order to dem- open negotiations before the end of the tary of defense for international security onstrate NATO's solidarity and willing- year. Faced with a strong new Presi- policy, is a resident scholar at the Ameri- ness to share the risks associated with dent, Brezhnev decided to come to the Finally, the committee table. can Enterprise Institute , Washington, D.C. Euromissiles.

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MIGHTIER THAN SWORDS? — President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev exchange pens after signing the accord.

Before the Geneva negotiations the elimination of medium-range mis- opened in November 1981 the Soviets ALTHOUGH siles on both sides, a proposal that mounted a massive propaganda cam- became known as the "zero option." It paign against the NATO deployment. met with immediate, widespread the SALT I and Demonstrations took place throughout approval in Europe. Europe, organized by the peace move- SALT II treaties The Soviets lost no time in rejecting ment and encouraged by Moscow. failed to meet the zero option, calling it a smoke Soviet deployment of SS-20 missiles screen behind which the United States went largely unnoticed as hundreds of our objectives, was seeking military superiority. Most thousands of Europeans marched to experts on arms control considered it to oppose NATO's program. we signed them be hopelessly non-negotiable, and ariyway. many of them believed that it had been issue became a major factor in put forward by an administration that THEWest German, Dutch and Belgian was actually trying to destroy the elections. Francois Mitterrand, negotiations by making demands that newly elected president of France, took the Soviets never would accept. the unprecedented step of urging the But the administration's view of German people to support the NATO tries, the United States regarded the arms control was vastly different from deployment. And Margaret Thatcher deployment decision as being a chal- the views of its predecessors and from had to contend with a Labour Party lenge that NATO must meet. If opposi- the common wisdom. It was convinced pledge to refuse the British share of the tion to deployment could prevent that arms control should not be an end cruise-missile deployment and adopt a NATO from offsetting Soviet missiles, in itself, that we must not seek agree- policy of unilateral disarmament. In the the alliance would be destroyed. The ment for agreement's sake. In order to end, the campaigns against deployment stakes were high — far higher than 572 be effective, arms control had to serve failed, and voters in all five countries weapons — and both Washington and our security interests, and it had to be elected leaders who considered deploy- Moscow knew it. based on equality. An agreement that ment to be crucial to the cohesion of the When the negotiations opened, U.S. left SS-20s in place while outlawing NATO allies. negotiators made a proposal. Not con- countervailing American missiles The United States prepared for the tent to simply ask the Soviets to halt would be harmful to our security and 1981 negotiations against the back- their deployment of SS-20s, leaving the therefore unacceptable. ground of political turbulence through- several hundred warheads they had If it seemed to be asking a lot for the out Europe. Like other NATO coun- already fielded in place, they proposed Soviets to give up missiles that they had

APRIL 1988 19 But the Soviet walkout was a serious 'THE U.S. APPROACH to arms control: miscalculation. Far from precipitating Put forth reasonoble proposols thot serve protests that would drive the American INF from Europe, it struck a devastat- Americcn interests, then sit stili for os long ing blow against the peace movement. Suddenly the Soviet Union was seen as until ttie Soviets around. as necessar/ come being the obstacle to an agreement, and

in it to get « « ® ® « # ® « ® • « ® ® «? January 1985 scrambled back to the negotiating table. Throughout 1985 and most of 1986, the Soviets refused to agree to the elimi- in for the I II already deployed exchange ing SALT and SALT negotia- nation of all INF missiles. The ice NATO's changing its deployment tions that although the treaties failed to began to break at the 1986 Iceland sum- it. Soviets not plans, so be If the would meet our objectives, we signed them mit, when Gorbachev for the first time agree to a treaty that left the sides anyway. The current administration was agreed to eliminate medium-range mis- equal, there would be no treaty. The determined not to repeat the mistakes siles on both sides in Europe. But he United States would stand fast behind of the past. insisted on keeping 100 warheads on the zero option. Soviet missiles based in the Asian half In all previous arms-control negotia- NATO deployment surmounted of the Soviet Union. The United States tions with the Soviets, we constantly THEone political obstacle after another, would be permitted 100 warheads on revised our negotiating positions to going forward on a schedule that missiles based in the United States. make them more accommodating to called for the first Pershing II missiles But medium-range warheads on Soviet wishes. Each American proposal to arrive in West Germany by the end of American missiles in the United States was more to the Soviets' liking than the 1983. Under Brezhnev, Andropov, would have been useless. Too far from previous one. The American position Chernenko and Gorbachev, the Soviet their targets to reach them, they would had deteriorated to such an extent dur- Union continued to reject the zero have presented a meaningless appear- option, saying that there could be no ance of equality. After the Iceland sum- INF CASUALTY - Set for removal from American missiles in Europe but that mit, American negotiators continued to Europe under the treaty are ground- the Soviet missiles would remain. press the Soviets to give up the remain- launcfied U.S. cruise missiles. When the first Pershing lis were ing warheads. Eventually Gorbachev deployed late in December 1983, the agreed. When the final terms were Soviet delegation walked out of the negotiated, both sides also agreed to Geneva talks, vowing never to return eliminate shorter-range INF missiles, until the United States withdrew its banning all missiles with a range missiles from Europe. greater than 500 kilometers. Only the Soviets had missiles in this category: the SS-12 and the SS-23. NATO had none and no plans to acquire any. While there is understandable con- troversy about the consequences of eliminating American medium-range missiles from Europe, one thing is clear: The United States prevailed in the negotiations, getting the Soviets to agree to a proposal that few people believed could be negotiated. Its suc- Please turn To page 44

20 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE THE THORNY PROBLEM OF VERIFICATION

IFTHE Soviet Union wishes to vio- and presenting the evidence, some of late the INF Treaty by concealing which is based on sensitive intelli- SS-20 missiles, there is little chance gence sources and methods that that we would detect them. In the would be compromised if they were vastness of the Soviet Union, our revealed. Another is the lack of preci- right to on-site inspection will be lim- sion in the treaties themselves and the ited to a miniscule fraction of Soviet ease with which ambiguous language territory — say, 1 percent or less. The can be used to explain circumvention other 99 percent will remain closed to of the clear intent of the parties. American inspectors, even if we sus- The serious violations are, in a pect that the treaty is being violated. sense, easier to explain than the minor The concession that led to this situa- ones are. After all, if the Soviets tion — dropping a demand for inspec- decided that they needed more than tions at suspect sites — was made the one new type of ICBM allowed by when the Soviets refused to agree, SALT II, they would hardly let the and we, eager to wrap up the negotia- treaty stand in their way, especially tions, yielded to their position. since the provisions are particularly Before judging just how serious difficult to verify. Or if they decided this concession is, it is worth recalling COMPLIANCE-The mobility of SS-20 to deploy the long-lead-time elements the Soviet record of compliance with and SS-25 missiles makes verification of a national anti-ballistic-missile arms-control treaties. It can be put an issue of great concern. system — of which the radar at Kras- simply: The Soviets have violated nayarsk might well be part — the them when it was convenient to do so. to the point where we apparently lack ABM Treaty would not stop them. This is the central theme of three com- the will and resolve to insist on full, They would correctly calculate that pliance reports that the President sent strict compliance. This was demon- while there might be complaints from to Congress, and it is the conclusion strated when Congress denied the the American side, little or nothing of senior government officials who administration the authority to obtain would be done to punish non- spent more than two years studying any weapon system that would carry compliance. Soviet compliance. us beyond certain SALT II limits, This is precisely what has hap- At one time or another and to vary- despite the dismal record of Soviet pened: feckless protest and no action. ing degrees, the Soviets have violated compliance. The administration was unable to per- the SALT I and SALT II treaties; the But this attitude may change. The suade Congress even to terminate ABM Treaty; the Helsinki Final Act; administration has said that we should American compliance with SALT II, the convention banning the use of not conclude new treaties until the although it had never been ratified chemical weapons; and, in all likeli- Soviets fully comply with old ones. and would have expired in 1985 even hood, the Threshold Test Ban Treaty, And while it may seek to finesse that if it had been. Soviet leaders who which limits nuclear tests to 150 kilo- statement when it comes to ratifica- judged that they could get away with tons. Some violations continue. tion of the INF Treaty, it is unlikely to violations simply by refusing to admit Other violations have been minor, do so again for a strategic-arms treaty, them have been proved to be right. such as the deployment of a second if one can be negotiated. The minor violations are harder to new type of ICBM — the SS-25 — As for the inadequacy of the verifi- understand. The Soviets didn't gain although SALT II permits only one. cation provisions of the INF Treaty, much by keeping a small number of But two others — the deployment of a the argument that is likely to prevail is prohibited ICBMs deployed at a test massive phased-array radar at Kras- this: The military advantages of a facility, but they did it nevertheless. nayarsk, in flagrant violation of the clandestine cache of SS-20s, along- They can't benefit much from con- ABM Treaty, and the encryption of side the thousands of other nuclear ducting nuclear tests in a manner that missile-test data — are serious. weapons in the world, just aren't that the Atmospheric Test Ban Treaty pro-

Why, one might ask, would we important. But this argument will hibits, but they do it all the same. The enter into new treaties with the become increasingly difficult to sus- point is that the Soviets will cheat for Soviets when they are violating exist- tain if we end up negotiating other even quite modest advantages ing ones? The answer is that we are agreements that significantly reduce because the consequences of cheating enthralled by the process of arms con- the strategic forces on which our are negligible. They might be much trol, and by the hope that it eventually security depends. more likely to cheat on a matter of will relieve us of the burden of provid- The explanations for these viola- great importance — for example, con- ing adequate defense for both our- tions vary. But surely a major factor is ducting SDI research that might be selves and our allies. We are enthralled the difficulty of collecting, analyzing prohibited.

APRIL 1988 21 jTjI? INF IS GOOD FOR NATO

A RARITY - An SS-20 outside its canister.

ByLt. Gen. Colin L Powell have resulted in U.S. inferiority. But Despite the loss the West held firm, and the Soviets in the end accepted equality at zero, based

Senate is considering of U.S. missiles, on the administration's 1981 proposal. This met NATO's goal and established the treaty on intermediate- NATO's militory range nuclear forces, an important precedent for other negoti- THE ations: asymmetric Soviet reductions to which President Reagan strength is closer and General Secretary reach equality with the United States. Gorbachev signed during to parity with the • Any agreement had to be global, their December 1987 sum- Soviets because of since Soviet INF missiles threatened mit meeting. We believe our friends and allies on two conti- that the treaty will bear the INFTreaty. nents. For years the Soviets offered well the scrutiny it is receiving. It is reductions only in Europe. Then they solid. tried to trade off reductions in Asia for The INF Treaty enhances U.S. and cuts in U.S. nuclear-capable ships and allied security, and is a step forward in aircraft in that part of the world. We our efforts to ensure peace. It demon- countermeasure, and called for U.S.- stuck to our guns and got what we strates the soundness of our approach Soviet negotiations to establish limits wanted. for the past seven years of restoring on U.S. and Soviet INF systems at the • We would not agree to limits on Western military strength while pursu- lowest possible level. other countries' missiles. The Soviets ing a realistic dialogue with the USSR. The Soviets conducted an all-out tried for years to get either reductions in Actions leading to the INFTreaty campaign of propaganda and intimida- British and French nuclear missiles, or began with the Soviet deployment of tion, trying to stop NATO's deploy- a cap on their growth. They had to drop SS-20 missiles in the late 1970s, which ments. But it was only after NATO both demands. brought a new dimension to the threat began to deploy its own INF missiles • To prevent the Soviets from cir- against Europe and Asia. The Soviets that the Soviets got down to serious cumventing SS-20 reductions by build- probably wished to use this threat negotiating. To the great credit of allied ing up their shorter-range INF systems, against our allies' territory but not our leaders, NATO developed sound nego- there had to be equal constraints in this own, in order to drive a wedge between tiating principles at the start and held area. The Soviets long rejected this, the democracies. firmly to them through years of Soviet then offered to reduce their INF mis- We were not about to let that happen. maneuvering. Here's how we fulfilled siles only in Europe. In the end they In its "dual-track" decision of 1979, these Western objectives. agreed to global elimination of these NATO decided to deploy a limited • We insisted that any agreement systems. number of U.S. Pershing II and ground- must result in U.S. -Soviet equality. The • An INF agreement could not limit launched cruise missiles in Europe as a Soviets first insisted on the right to NATO conventional capabilities. The match the nuclear arsenals of the Soviets called for major reductions in Army Lt. Gen. Colin L. Powell was United States and all of our NATO U.S. land- and carrier-based aircraft appointed national-security adviser in allies combined. Then they offered to capable of carrying either nuclear or November. take equal reductions, which would conventional armaments; these aircraft

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MARGINAL LOSS-Some Western There are some useful lessons for the observers minimize the loss of U.S. future in how the West handled INF. Pershing II missiles in Europe by claim- NATO succeeded through its strength ing that the fixed-site missiles are vulner- years; able to a Soviet first strike. and unity over many we knew what we wanted, and we held out until

we got it. If the freeze movement or play a crucial role in NATO's conven- unilateral disarmers had gotten their tional-force posture. Again we refused. way, we would instead be faced with a This demand was finally dropped. permanent Soviet monopoly in INF • Any agreement must provide for missiles. effective verification. The Soviets Another lesson is that this treaty rep- balked at this for years, then said that resents Western adherence to sound verification details could be worked out objectives, not a change in Soviet aims. after a treaty was signed. We insisted Being realistic about the Soviet Union, that verification must be an integral we will continue to ensure that NATO part of any agreement. As a result, this maintains the modern, credible nuclear treaty has the most stringent verifica- and conventional forces it needs in tion provisions in arms-control history, order to respond to aggression at any including several forms of short-notice, level. MOVING TARGETS- The Soviets have to give up their mobile SS-20 mis- on-site inspections. This, too., is an The INF Treaty enhances NATO's agreed siles, which are considered to be less important precedent for other negotia- ability to do this in two ways. It vulnerable than their fixed-site U.S. tions. removes the threat to our nuclear- counterparts. deterrent forces posed by Soviet INF missiles, particularly the SS-20. And by eliminating the shorter-range Soviet to meet the common threat. INF has The treaty SS-12 and SS-23 missiles, which can been the most-discussed issue in carry chemical and conventional as alliance history. On various occasions, has the most well as nuclear warheads, it also the allies asked us to alter our negotiat- stringent removes a significant threat to NATO's ing positions, and we did. As the Presi- conventional-reinforcement capabilities dent said, "Our allies have been with us verification The treaty shows how Western secu- throughout, and we've been with rity is enhanced when we work together them." provisions in arms-control history/

WELL-CONCEALED — The Soviets claim that canisters such as this contain SS-20 missiles.

APRIL 1988 23 .

STRUCTURAL DISARMAMENT WHY DEFENSE COSTS SO MUCH

Continued U.S. technological superiority over the Soviets depends on changing weapons systems often, even before they become operational. But a defense budget that barely keeps pace with

inflation is no match for the spiraling costs.

By Steve Salerno Army modernization, hailed as a top already is under way. Even though the priority in the early days of the current alliance outspends the Warsaw Pact on administration, is being curtailed far defense, NATO is gradually losing its BIT of gallows humor is short of targets. More and more Air once-formidable edge in the quality of circulating at the Pen- Force purchases, from helicopters to its hardware tagon these days. As cruise missiles, are being financed The factors underlying this new form Wm spokesman Maj. Randy through the "rob-Peter-to-pay-Paul" of disarmament seem to be clear Morger put it, "The joke method of accounting. Navy combat enough. One is the increasing focus on 9 is that if costs keep rising aircraft are getting older, and the 600- technological superiority. Weapon sys- H at their current rate, by ship fleet envisioned by former Navy tems grow ever more complex, and 2025 the United States Secretary John Lehman is linked to designs make increasing use of exotic "^B will be able to afford spending increases, which now seem to materials such as titanium. All of this exactly one bomber. But it'll be a very be in jeopardy. drives costs skyward. A B-IB bomber, good bomber." The worry is that if costs continue to originally budgeted at $70 million, Indeed, the rising per-unit cost of spiral, we may unilaterally disarm our- today costs four times as much. It is a weapons, combined with stagnating selves long before we reach any formal simple equation: As unit prices rise, the defense budgets, is throwing a wrench disarmament agreement. The phenome- number of units that a country can into the best-laid plans for bolstering non has even acquired a name; struc- afford plunges. national security. "We sometimes seem tural disarmament. to be on a treadmill," observed Sen. "It doesn't matter that it's inadvertent MORE subtle is the fact that the Sam Nunn of Georgia. or unintentional," said Morger. "The worid defense market is too small Although a trillion dollars have been net effect is the same as if we were to allow production in efficient spent since 1983, fully half the nation's required by treaty to disarm." quantities. Weapons are manufactured 20 largest weapon programs are limp- Evidence of the problem can be at barely half the ideal rate. ing along at rates well below original found throughout the free world. In such circumstances, the overhead projections. A five-year military budget Former NATO Supreme Allied Com- of the manufacturing process ends up request submitted in 1985 already has mander Gen. Bernard Rogers recently being loaded excessively into each fallen $452 billion behind schedule. noted, "Every time we replace a sys- product that rolls off the assembly line.

tem, the cost of the newer one has It is as if General Motors Corp. had to Steve Salerno is a California-basedfree- increased by a factor of 3 to 5." With recoup its mammoth retooling over- lance journalist whose articles appear each replacement cycle, NATO is able head on a fraction of the millions of

in some of America 's most respected to afford fewer weapons or is able to new vehicles it sells each year. A $100 magazines. implement less of a program that million investment spread over 1 mil-

24 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE RUNAWAY COSTS-T/je B-1B bomber currently in production costs $280 mil- lion, four times its original price tag.

explained a spokesman for the State Department. He added that when buyers are faced with the problem, they come up with a handy rationalization: If they buy better weapons, they don't need as many of them. "But you can't always offset numerical shortcomings through quality alone," he said. "It reaches a point where geographically, you just don't have enough units to go around." Limited funds also cause unrealistic decisions. The Pentagon tends to adopt a "foot-in-the-door" mentality. The goal is to push through scaled-down versions of desired programs or to get full programs under way on a shoe- string, hoping that the rest of the funds will become available later. "We have a tendency to kid ourselves," said Rep. Les Aspin of Wisconsin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. "We have visions of what we'd like our defense picture to look like, and we get carried away." Of course, borrowing against the future can't go on forever, especially in

THEworryisfhafif costs continue to spiral, we may unilaterally disarm ourselves before we reach an agreement

an era of belt-tightening. Sometimes, programs are shelved before they're finished, wasting millions of dollars' worth of development. lion cars sold would be $100 per unit. $1 billion onto the price of the missiles Even the programs that survive do But spread the same amount over just bought over the past few years. That's not emerge unscathed. Military analyst

1,000 cars, and you have a whopping enough to buy almost 2,000 additional Thomas Callaghan Jr. , a leading voice assessment of $100,000 per car. Obvi- missiles if the assembly line were run- in the outcry against structural disarma- ously, should that hypothetical situa- ning at optimum rates. ment, wrote, "Many weapon programs tion occur, all but a few American Production inefficiencies weuld not crawl at such a slow rate that they are households would be priced out of the be that serious if funds were limitless, obsolete well before they are deployed new-car market. but such is not the case. In real terms, or are overtaken by subsequently Unfortunately for today's armed defense budgets have actually been developed technologies." With Stealth forces, the problem is not hypothetical. shrinking. bombers waiting in the wings, the Consider the Army's Patriot missile "The cost of weapons grows faster gremlin-plagued B-1 bomber may well program. Piddling production schedules than inflation, while the military budget end up falling into this category. are estimated to have tacked an added barely keeps pace with inflation," Please turn to page 42

APRIL 1988 25 "Takeoff: Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, 1942." A painting by Herb IVIott.

'THIRTYSECONDS OVER TOKYO'

rampaging through the Pacific and Hornet — a feat then considered to be By Phil Nelson making life hell for Allied forces in impossible — carrying enough fuel to Burma. The United States sorely reach the target, but not much more. HEN the Japanese needed good news to boost sagging The first planes hit Tokyo at 12:30 attacked Pearl Harbor, morale. p.m., flying barely above the house- Jimmy Doolittle, then Then, on April 18, 1942, dauntless, tops to avoid anti-aircraft fire, so low an Army major, told dashing Jimmy Doolittle gave America that their pilots could see the faces of some of his friends, something to cheer about. He led 16 B- people on the street. P "I'm going to get in 25 bombers and 79 volunteer airmen in Approaching their targets, the pilots I this thing with both a daytime air raid over the Japanese lifted to 1,500 feet to drop their bombs, feet. I'm going to mainland, and blazed his way into then ducked low again. They struck Tokyo with a load of American legend in 30 seconds. bombs." Earlier that morning, 650 miles from Phil Nelson, a free-lance journalist based The months that followed were the Japan, the heavy bombers had taken off at Lake Tahoe, Calif., specializes in mili- darkest of the war, with the Japanese from the heaving deck of the carrier tan' history.

26 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Tokyo and four other cities, then high- Sperry Jr., experimenting to create tailed it for Chungking, China, where a workable instruments. In September safe haven had been arranged. 1929, as a 33-year-old Army test pilot, But foul weather intervened. Not Doolittle became the first man to take one of the bombers reached its sched- off, fly and land hu plane solely on uled destination. instrurhents. The New York Times hailed

Eleven planes, including Doolittle's, it as being "more than an exhibition of flew until they were out of gas; their instrument perfection ... it indicates crews bailed out over Japanese- that aviation has perhaps taken its great- occupied China. Four others made est single step to safety." crash landings, and one plane landed During the 1930s, when he was avia- safely in the Soviet Union. tion manager for Shell Petroleum, he As bombing missions go, this one bombing missions pressed for the development of 100- did minor damage. But it was a stun- AS octane fuel and helped convince the i go, this one did ning psychological blow to the Army that it was essential for high- Japanese. Emperor Hirohito had prom- minor damaga but if wos performance aircraft. He said that the ised that their homeland, which had not o stunning psyciiologicoi Battle of Britain could not have suc- been attacked in 2,602 years, never ceeded without it. would be bombed. blow to file Joponese. It was his old flying friend, "Hap" Three weeks later Doolittle was Arnold, who brought him back into Air , ^ § s « « ® ® ® 0 ordered to the White House, where Corps service to lead the Tokyo raid. In President Roosevelt gave him the the months that followed that bold Medal of Honor. The Distinguished with him claimed that he had ice water attack, the Army sent Doolittle to Service Cross went to all 79 airmen. in his veins. Washington, D.C., on a morale-boost- The dramatic story of the raid was But Doolittle was more than a speed ing tour. He went on to command the told by Ted Lawson, one of the pilots, and stunt flyer; he was a constant exper- 12th Air Force in the North African in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, which imenter. He believes that the single invasion; the 15th in the Mediterranean; later was made into a movie starring greatest accomplishment of his life was and the "Mighty 8th," which reduced Spencer Tracy as Doolittle. developing the artificial horizon and Nazi Germany to smoking rubble. Today Jimmy Doolittle lives in gen- directional gyroscope that made blind Along the way he won every decora- teel retirement in California's Carmel flight possible. "I could see the limita- tion that the Army bestows for gallantry

Valley with his wife, Jo. This Dec. tions of the airplane if it could fly only in action. He also was knighted by 14, Doolittle will celebrate his 91st in fair weather," he said. King George VI, and has received birthday. With the financial aid of philan- awards from France, Ecuador, Poland, The years have taken their toll, he thropist Harry Guggenheim, he set up a China and Belgium. Most of his said. His hearing is impaired from laboratory and spent a year with Elmer Please turn to page 43 years in an open cockpit and the roar of propeller-driven aircraft. "My memory is poor; my cognizance, lousy," he said. But a certain jaunty air and an irrepressible twinkle in his eyes belied those words. He laughs easily, this raconteur without equal. Still trim, with the commanding presence that befits a four-star general, he exuded gentle humor as he recounted the extraordinary exploits of a life packed with action and accomplish- ment. As an aviation pioneer, mining engineer, stunt pilot, boxing champ, scientist, "general hell-raiser" (his own term) and business executive, Doolittle has been in the forefront of history for seven decades. He first burst into the limelight in the early 1920s, when he made cross-coun- try speed flights. In that "golden age of aviation," he set a dozen records and earned almost all of the important avia- tion trophies; he is considered to be one of the most skillful test pilots who ever flew. He once demonstrated a commer- cial plane while he had two broken an- CALL TO SERVE— Doo//«/e's daring raid on Tokyo made him a national hero and an kles in plaster casts. Those who flew inspirational leader in mobilizing the war effort.

APRIL 1988 27 America 's New Rage

Video flea MARira

nize a good thing. No fewer than 30 By Phyllis Zauner competitors have jumped into the arena Home shopping on since HSN's rags-to-riches saga began coble television 2'/: years ago. Chief among them are first time Wendy Fuller QVC Network, a showcase for Sears of Huntington Beach, is such o hit catalog products, which billed $100 THECalif., stumbled across fhof even Seors million in its first year, and Cable Value cable Channel 27, she just Network, with 1987 billings of $350 laughed. "Wow, this is ondJ.C. Penney million. CVN once sold a half-price corny," she said after a Rolls Royce for $50,000. few minutes of watching hoveJoined Merchandise and format are about pitchmen hawk everything the IVhowking. the same on most of the shows. But from earrings to elec- lately, the razzle-dazzle image has tronics amid flashing lights, clanging begun to tone down. Video Mall Net; cowbells and honking horns. "But after work in Pennsylvania deals in franchise

an hour or two I saw some nice things opportunities and self-improvement.

on sale, and I was hooked." The Fashion Channel, which opened in She is not alone. It's hard-sell in the some advertiser used to pay his bill. Los Angeles in October 1987, sells top- best P.T. Barnum formula, a sort of They went on the air to offer them at a quality apparel, cosmetics and acces- everlasting video flea market. Millions discount and sold the lot quickly. The sories. Telshop, based in New York of Americans are getting their entertain- offbeat sales gimmick was such a suc- City, displays brand-name merchandise

ment kicks — along with half-price cess that it inspired them to start the and travel services. computers, jewelry and kayaks — by Home Shopping Network, which really Home shopping has even made its turning on cable television's shopping is one long, random TV commercial debut on broadcast TV, though so far channels. It's a bargain-hunter's dream running 24 hours a day. with mixed reviews.

come true. All of this is having some effect on The formula is simple. Turn on. tune THE power of the medium is remark- traditional retailers. Sears, J.C. Penney in, settle back and watch a parade of able. During the first year, it took and Dayton-Hudson Corp. all are mov- products, useful and useless, lovely just 12 minutes for HSN to sell $1 ing into teleshopping. And according to and tacky. And when that irresistible million worth of coins that had been the accounting firm Arthur Andersen & bargain shows up, just dial the toll-free retrieved from the galleon /\/oc/7fl, ship- Co., one of the nation's five largest

number and charge the purchase to wrecked off the Florida coast three cen- retailers is planning a "mall" on televi- your credit card. No card? A personal turies ago. sion, allowing customers to move from check may do. The goods will arrive in No TV business has had such a rapid store to store and from department to about 10 days, bearing a 30-day "no rise. In two years HSN outstripped its department, examining individual quibble" return guarantee. modest beginnings on one regional products and placing orders by tele- Much of the stuff is close-out mer- Florida channel to become the hottest phone. The retailer plans to launch a chandise, or discontinued or unpopular new programming idea to hit cable. pilot program in the Midwest sometime lines dumped by manufacturers. But all HSN is now beamed via satellite to all this year.

of it sells, as the pitchmen say, "at huge 50 states, is available to 15 million Interesting as the teleshopping

discounts." homes and sells 60,000 pieces of mer- phenomenon is, however, it may herald Video shopping was born when two chandise a day. an even broader change in America's Florida radio-station operators were Is this new "teleshopping" wonder- buying habits. Today, well over half of stuck with the 120 can openers that land just a fad, like the hula hoop, or American women have full-time jobs

the beginning of a new industry, as the outside the home; it just isn't conven- Phyllis Zauner, a Sacramento-based silicon chip proved to be? ient for them to shop in traditional ways.

author of more than 400 articles, writes As might be expected, it didn't take This has given rise to an avalanche of on social conditions in America. long for other entrepreneurs to recog- gorgeous catalogs filled with exotic

28 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE SHOPPING IN COMFORT— Ei^en American men, many of whom detest the thought of shopping, have become hooked.

merchandise. A catalog is a "store" that making a comeback. In San Francisco is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. and Ocala, Fla., Grocery Express takes Until the 1960s five companies had HSN, beamed via phone orders for items on a list of most of the catalog business. Today, satellite to 50 staples plus a weekly flier of specials. at least 100,000 catalogs are issued If no one is home, the delivery man, annually. states, reacties who has a key, puts away perishables.

Even catalogs are now changing for- The entire field of home shopping is 15 million homes mat. A California company called so new that no one is certain where its Home Video Marketplace soon will dis- and sells about future lies. Many services have already tribute "videologs," taped catalogs that come and gone. When Home Shopping can be checked out at video stores with- 60WO pieces of Network had difficulties related mainly out charge. Featured items range from merctiandise a day. to too-rapid growth, some said that the toys to tanning beds. Another tape bloom was off the rose. But lessons titled "Shop the World," hosted by Elke have been learned, and strategies are in Sommer, soon will reach 5,000 video the making. Media-industry observers stores. expect the next wave of shop-by-TV You can even shop for a home on services to be the emergence of "spe- television. The latest trend in real estate ture called Comp-U-Card was begun to cialty" shopping channels, with less marketing is a slick 30-minute commer- allow owners of home computers to dependence on hype and on the sale of cial that poses as a television show, shop from home. But home computers items such as cubic zirconium jewelry. parading one-bedroom condos and 12- never fulfilled their promise, so Comp- Even cable operators, for whom bedroom mansions on a video "run- U-Card shifted gears and began taking teleshopping has been a "cash cow" way" almost like spring fashions from orders by telephone. Members call a (they receive a percentage of sales), Milan. Usually aired early on Sunday toll-free number and describe the items said they realize that too much of a mornings, it may, some experts they want. A computer combs a list con- good thing could turn off viewers. believe, replace the traditional Sunday taining the latest bids from 500 retailers Perhaps the ultimate test of home house-hunting drive. "An idea whose and distributors, then spits out the best shopping's durability will come from time has come," proclaimed Fox & deal. Comp-U-Card gives the order to repeat buyers such as Wendy Fuller, who Carskadon Realtors. The glitzy pro- the low bidder, and the merchandise is has returned some items but reports no grams already are mushrooming across delivered to the customer's home. The problem with the service. "The only the country. resulting discounts may be as high as problem is that you can buy only so There's other evidence of home- 50 percent. many doodads," she said. "You have to shopping growth. In the 1970s, a ven- Even home delivery of groceries is pay the rent, too, you know."

APRIL 1988 29 cholera, nUBERCULOSIS.pneumonia and scarlet fever hold little terror ANTIBIOTICS today, but only four dec- ades ago, infectious dis- eases such as these were the leading cause of death. "A man could come home

I lom work with a pain in his chest and be dead the next day," said Dr. Richard SNUPFING B. Sykes, vice president of OUT the Squibb Institute for Medical Research. "Pneumonia killed just like that." And if pneumonia and other bacterial diseases didn't kill, they could cause permanent, debilitating damage. The development of penicillin, tet- YESTERDAY^S racyclines and other antibiotics changed the dismal prognoses. When antibiotics became generally available in the 1940s, they were called "miracle drugs." Now antibiotics are simply taken for granted. They're also taken too often. Accord- KILLERS ing to Steven Barriere, an assistant pro- fessor of pharmacy and internal medicine at the University of Michi- In the 1940s, antibiotics were tiailed os gan, antibiotics frequently are pre- ''miracle drugs." Now they're fo/cen scribed for ailments they can't cure or

are routinely dispensed as "shotgun tor granted. . . but ttiey're still saving lives. therapy" for undiagnosed diseases. This misuse, he said, is even worse overseas, particularly in Third World countries, where there are few physi- ByJay Stuller cians and drugs are available without prescriptions. nificance to be fully appreciated. Meanwhile, new problems emerged. Although overuse is not harmful — World War II expedited the research. The heavy use of penicillin in Vietnam- antibiotics have a fairly low toxicity In 1941 two British investigators. Dr. ese brothels helped develop a strain of

level — it is speeding the rate at which Howard Florey and Dr. Ernst Chain, gonorrhea that was immune to the drug. bacteria develop resistance to various concentrated a small amount of penicil- Later spread to the United States, that

drugs. "Bacteria can go through a gen- lin and successfully administered it to strain now also is immune to spectino- eration in 20 minutes, instead of the 20 soldiers who had gangrenous wounds mycin, another once-potent weapon.

years it takes for humans," Sykes said. or infected burns. Initially, only sol- "Enzymes that help provide resistance diers received the drug, but by 1945 the TODAY, there are 80 to 100 different to penicillin probably always were War Production Board permitted drug- antibiotics in five major classes; a latent in some bacteria, but antibiotics makers to distribute penicillin through number of them are considered to be help separate the strong from the normal trade channels. For their "superdrugs." Combating any infection weak." Consequently, many antibiotics achievements, Fleming, Florey and now involves the judicious use of one that were powerful five or 10 years ago Chain shared a Nobel Prize. or more of the following: are nearly useless today. From the start, however, researchers • Penicillin comes in more than a Dr. Alexander Fleming discovered could see that bacteria were able to dozen varieties, including nafcillin, the first antibiotic, penicillin, by acci- develop resistance to antibiotics. cloxacillin and a fourth-generation dent in 1928, when he found mold on a Within a few years of the introduction drug, piperacillin. These are among the culture dish that contained staphylo- of penicillin, most staphylococci had least-toxic antibiotics; relatively few

cocci. The Scottish researcher noticed become resistant to it. New antibiotics people are dangerously allergic to that the staph would not grow near the were developed, but bacteria simply them. fungus. Although this simple observa- developed new resistance. For exam- • Cephalosoprins are effective tion inspired Fleming to develop ple, scientists found that ampicillin, against about 90 percent of all bacteria.

penicillin, it took 15 years for its sig- introduced in the early 1960s, could •Aminoglycosides, including strep- easily knock out Escherichia coli. But tomycin, are effective against tuber- Jay Stuller, a San Francisco-based jour- by the end of the decade, about 30 per- culosis. However, they can be toxic, nalist, is a frequent contributor to this cent to 50 percent of hospital-acquired causing kidney damage and deafness, and other leading general-interest E. coli had developed resistance to and usually are given only in hospitals. magazines. ampicillin. • Tetracyclines rank with penicillin

30 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE among the most-prescribed antibiotics, of evolutionary resistance. Each year, and are used to fight afflictions ranging about 2 million American hospital from teen-age acne to sexually trans- patients come down with bacterial Old drugs mitted infections. infections, mainly of the skin, blood, KEEPING • Macrolites often are used for skin, intestines, lungs and urinary tract. Lsuch OS penicillin ear and throat infections, although About 20,000 of them die of "compli- from out- many bacteria have developed resis- cations'" — a combination of the infec- becoming Macrolites were gener- tance to them. tion, the original disease and weakened doted is wise, if only ally dropped from hospital use until immunity. 1976. when they were found to be effec- 'A lot of hospitals have put certain becouse mony of the tive against Legionnaires' disease. new antibiotics on a restricted-use list," superdrugs ore very The problem of resistant bacteria is said Richard Mangini, a San Francisco especially acute in hospitals, where Bay-area research pharmacologist. "An expensive. heavy antibiotic use quickens the pace infectious-disease specialist will check

to see whether older antibiotics could do the job and will try to use new drugs only as a last resort." Keeping old standards such as penicillin from becoming outdated is wise, if only because many of the new superdrugs are very expensive. Treating certain infections with some new anti- biotics can take up to 10 days, at a cost of more than $100 a day; the old drugs cost less than $5 a day. Physicians, however, face a quandry. Their first concern is the welfare of their patients. If a doctor has no way of knowing what's wrong with a patient

who has a 105° fever, he or she is going to prescribe a strong broad-spectrum antibiotic. This is fine, Sykes said, but physicians must begin taking the treat- ment a step farther. "The physician should take a culture, and when the results come in the next day, he should identify exactly what kind of infection the patient has acquired," he said. "Then he should get the patient off the broad-spectrum drug, which shouldn't do any harm in 24 hours, and on to something that works against that particular infection.

This simply is good medical practice.

But it takes additional time and thought." As long as drug companies continue to develop new generations of antibi- otics, we probably will remain ahead of

the bacterial-evolution process. But it's clear that the use of these drugs demands some forethought and care, so that man always can depend on the miracle of antibiotics.

THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS GENERAL MEDICAL INFOR- MATION AND ADVICE. ALTHOUGH THE INFORMATION IS BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE. YOU SHOULD CON- SULT YOUR PHYSICIAN FOR MEDICAL ADVICE CON- CERNING YOUR PARTICULAR CONDITION.

KEEPING PACE — Because many bac- teria develop resistance to antibiotics, constant research is imperative to pro- duce new generations of drugs.

31 Veterans update

p Uertain merchant marines, granted veteran would give complete control of employment services to the status through a Jan. 19 order by the secretary of the Air states. According to a Legion spokesman, devolution would

Force, now qualify for veterans' benefits. make it extremely difficult to enforce federal veterans'- Merchant seamen who served in active oceangoing service preference law. from Dec. 7 , 1 94 1 , to Aug. 15,1 945 , now are considered to be Also awaiting congressional attention is a comprehensive veterans and are eligible to receive discharge certificates issued by veterans' bill that would refine several benefits and services. the armed forces. Also included in the eligibility criteria are Civil Cleared by the House and, Senate in different versions, the bill Service crew members aboard U.S. Army Transport Service and would increase per-diem rates at state veterans' homes, offer Naval Transportation Service ships in oceangoing service. special pay and scholarships for VA nurses and others who A document issued by the Veterans Administration said, have critical medical skills, restore veterans'-beneficiary "In general, all benefits to which World War II veterans are en- travel to VA hospitals, continue the Vet Center program, and titled would now apply to these new veterans and their survivors. liberalize compensation benefits for ex-POWs. In all cases, however, benefits eligibility will have to be deter- mined on the specifics of the discharge certificate provided and related VA eligibility criteria for each benefit." Defense Department officials estimate that about 90,000 living Legionnaires and other U.S. veterans are invited to merchant-marine seamen served during the eligibility period. attend The American Legion/Australian Returned Services There are no estimates as to the number killed during World War II, League Week at the U.S. Pavilion at World Expo '88, to be nor is there an estimate of the number of eligible survivors. held in Brisbane, Australia. Applicants for veteran status should fill out DD Form 2168, The week begins on May 6 with ceremonies commemorating which is available at VA regional offices or merchant-marine the Battle of the Coral Sea. Festivities will include a float- organizations. The completed form should be mailed to the stage concert by the U.S. 7th Fleet Band, a memorial service and applicant's former service. Addresses are Merchant Marine: wreath-laying ceremony, a barbecue, and other social events. Commandant (GMVP-1/12), U.S. Coast Guard, Washington Adm. David E. Jeremiah, commander in chief of the U.S.

D.C. 20593-0001 ; Army Transport Service: Commander, Pacific Fleet, will represent President Reagan at the event, U.S. Army Reserve Components Personnel and Administrative which will feature an honor guard of 100 Legionnaires and Center (DARP-PAS-EN), 9700 Page Blvd., St. Louis, MO Australian Returned Service League members. 63132-5200; and Naval Transportation Service: Naval Further information may be obtained from Neal P. Gates, Military Personnel Command (NMPC-3), Washington, D.C. Commander, District VII (Australia), Department of Hawaii, 20370-5300. PO. Box 69, Carina, Queensland 4152, Australia.

Once the discharge certificate is issued, it can be pre- sented to the VA in applying for veterans' benefits.

f)r most people who seek information from government

agencies, one of the major problems is trying to locate the person A on the flag win fin educational comic book us. who has the answers. The Department of Commerce, however, be available next month for distribution to schools and com- is attempting to help citizens reach the proper source of informa- munities. The book, produced by the Americanism Division, tion without the usual bureaucratic runaround. The department contains significant information on the flag and its history. now has a program that directs callers to specific offices that Available only in lots of 100, the book (Stock No. 72550) may handle such matters as government regulations, procurement be ordered from National Emblem Sales, P.O. Box 1055, Indian- and exporting. Contact the Business Assistance Program apolis, IN 46206. The price is $39.95 per 100, plus $4.50 ship- c/o the Office of Business Liaison, U.S. Department of ping and handling. Price per 1 ,000 is $340, plus $5 shipping. Commerce, Washington, D.C. 20230, (202) 377-3176. P \^terans' legislation is among the leftover business Uontinuing its efforts to meet the special needs of that should receive early attention in the second session of the women veterans, the VA has announced changes that would: 100th Congress. S. 533, which would elevate the VA to Cabinet • Provide VA women-veteran coordinators in outreach status, continues to gain support. As the magazine went to activities for homeless veterans, and ensure that separate press, 61 senators were supporting the bill (see page 32). Similar statistics be kept on homeless women veterans so that their legislation, H.R. 3471, overwhelmingly passed the House in needs can be identified. November. A second hearing on the bill by the Senate Govern- • Stock more-comfortable women's pajamas in medical- mental Affairs Committee was scheduled for mid-March. center canteens. A second Legion priority involves S. 999, which seeks to • Offer hair-care service for female inpatients at VA safeguard employment assistance for veterans at local job medical centers. offices nationwide. The Legion is urging Congress to pass the • Develop a list of women-veterans' organizations as part bill as a protective measure against "devolution," a proposal that of efforts to inform women veterans about VA benefits.

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A SmONGER VOICE ''0^ VETERANS

Former VA I t Administrator Harry Waiters I I offers iogicai

I reasons wtiy thieVAstiouid be eievated t to Cabinet status.

By Harry N. Walters

1 UCH has been said and

' written over the years

I about elevating the

: Veterans Administra-

i tion to Cabinet level.

I I hope that Congress be elevated to a Cabinet-level depart- CLOSE C0NTACT-4S a Cabinet Administrator K. : will legislate such a ment because it has a budget of more member, VA Thomas Turnage would tiave greater access to : move this year. I sup- than $30 billion; it employs about the President on behalf of veterans. • port this action fully 250,000 people; it operates the free

and have so testified before the U.S. world's largest medical-care system; it

Senate. I believe that this step is neces- trains the lion's share of America's represented in the highest councils of

sary for America's veterans, and they doctors. It is the second-largest agency, government at a time when so many should actively support the enactment next to the Defense Department, in all groups are clamoring for a portion of

of such legislation. Also, and perhaps of government, and its budget is more the federal budget. If it is not, you can more important, American veterans than those of five Cabinet-level depart- be sure that these benefits will slowly can help the Veterans Administration ments combined. but surely erode. accomplish its important mission at a While these are compelling facts, the The truth is that Washington, D.C., is time of enormous deficits and budget best reason is that veterans and their a town where one's position in the tightening. dependents — the people whom the VA hierarchy is critical. The key to selling The Veterans Administration should is charged to support — represent programs and getting money to imple- almost 80 million Americans. Their ment them is communication. And in Harry N. Walters, VA Administratorfrom benefits have been earned through serv- order to communicate effectively — 1982 to 1986, is president ofGreat iMkes ice in the armed forces of the United whether it be with the President, the Carbon Corp., New York. States. Veterans must be appropriately director of the Office of Management

34 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE and Budget, or Congress — one must teer their services in each of the Veter- have access. Access is directly propor- ans Administration's 172 hospitals, tionate to one's position. Anyone who outpatient clinics and nursing homes, says that an administrator has the same and throughout their communities. This access as a Cabinet secretary just effort undoubtedly is the largest volun- doesn't know what he is talking about. teer effort in the United States. The Several recent editorials in major JL T'S A government doesn't fund this program,

newspapers have recommended that but it would have to spend millions the Veterans Administration be broken NEEDED STEP were volunteers not available. Also, into pieces and that its functions be each organization provides continuous, assigned to other agencies, such as the IN CONTINUING on-site evaluation of benefits delivery Department of Health and Human Serv- and health care at every VA installation. ices, and the Labor Department. Quite THE NATION'S This unfunded monitoring is invaluable frankly, confusing entitlements that not only to the veteran, but also to those have been earned through service to our OBLIGATION. who are responsible for managing the nation with benefits granted solely as a VA. It provides another set of eyes that result of citizenship would be like mix- sometimes discover problems before ing oil and water. The editorial boards the staff does and, at times, find better of these newspapers have not reflected ways of doing things. As a result, the properly on this issue or, perhaps, they VA is more efficient and responsive to prefer to have veterans' programs hid- • To provide timely, high-quality our veterans. These efforts must be

den so it is not so apparent when they health care, benefits and services to expanded, especially in view of the are chipped away. Perhaps they don't veterans and their families as effi- aging of our veteran population. want the VA's visibility to be improved. ciently as possible. The laws that govern the Veterans The United States always has exhibited Today the veteran population stands Administration's activities are, at best, special concern for those citizens who at more than 27 million. Approximately complex. When the VA executes these have served to defend and preserve our 8 million of these veterans have joined laws, sometimes the individual veteran

system of government. Although it is the various veterans' service organiza- believes that he or she is being mis- late in coming, the elevation of the VA tions; almost 3 million are on the rolls treated. If we assume that the dignity to Cabinet-level is a logical, needed of the largest. The American Legion. and compassion mentioned in the VA's step in continuing the nation's obliga- Veterans' service organizations provide mission statement are for the most part tion. service officers to assist veterans who being shown, the veteran has misunder- are applying for disability compensa- stood the situation. This is an area in WHEN I was administrator of tion, pensions and other benefits, and which service organizations play a vital veterans affairs, the leadership represent veterans' interests before the role. In telling their members about developed the following mission Board of Veterans Appeals. These serv- changes in the laws and new laws, or statements: ice officers are there to help you. Mem- simply re-explaining the old laws, they • The mission of the Veterans bers of the service organizations and provide veterans a valuable service, and Administration is to serve America's members of their auxiliaries can volun- Please turn to page 54 veterans and their families with dignity and compassion, and to be their princi- pal advocate in ensuring that they receive the care, support and recogni- SUPPORT GROWS IN SENATE tion they earned in service to this nation. AS THE magazine went to press, N.C.), Hollings (D-S.C), Inouye • To ensure that appropriate benefits 61 senators supported S. 533, (D-Hawaii), Karnes (R-Neb.), Ken- are provided to eligible veterans and which would establish the VA as an nedy (D-Mass.), Kerry (D-Mass.), their beneficiaries. executive department. They are: Lautenberg (D-N.J.), Leahy (D-Vt.), • To ensure that the eligible veter- Bentsen (D-Texas), Bingaman Lugar (R-Ind.), Matsunaga (D- ans' memorial affairs are appropriately (D-N.M.), Bond (R-Mo.), Boschwitz Hawaii), McCain (R-Ariz.), McCon- provided for and conducted in a man- (R-Minn.), Breaux (D-La.), Bump- nell (R-Ky.), Melcher (D-Mont.), ner that recognizes the honorable status ers (D-Ark.), Burdick (D-N.D.), Metzenbaum (D-Ohio), Mitchell of veterans. Byrd (D-W.Va.), Chafee (R-R.L), (D-Maine), Murkowski (R-Alaska), • To serve as the leader within the Chiles (D-Fla.), Cochran (R-Miss.), Nickles (R-Okla.), Pell (D-R.L), federal government on all matters Conrad (D-N.D.), Cranston CD- Pressler (R-S.D.), Pryor (D-Ark.), directly affecting veterans and their i Calif.), Daschle (D-S.D.), DeCon- Reid (D-Nev.), Riegle (D-Mich.), families, and to be their advocate in cini (D-Ariz.), Dixon (D-Ill.), Dole Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), Roth (R- representing their needs. (R-Kan.), Durenberger (R-Minn.), Del.), Sanford (D-N.C), Sarbanes • To ensure that the people of the Exon (D-Neb.), Ford (D-Ky.), Gore (D-Md.), Sasser (D-Tenn.), Shelby Veterans Administration receive qual- (D-Tenn.), Graham (D-Fla.), (D-Ala.), Simon (D-Ill.), Specter ity leadership, adequate compensation, Gramm (R- Texas), Grassley (R- (R-Pa.), Thurmond (R-S.C), decent working conditions, necessary lowa). Hatch (R-Utah), Hecht (R- Warner (D-Va.), Weicker (R-Conn.) training and education, equal opportu- Nev.), Heflin (D-Ala.), Helms (R- and Wilson (R-CaHf.). nity, and earned recognition.

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Foundation WITH A FUTURE

CHILDHOOD-^ rapid blur of motion and experience racing to thie future. The Child Welfai

WORTHY GOAL-£ac/i Amer- ican child should grow up as happy and healthy as possible. ^We need $1 million

to l(eep on lielping oup Idds.

I'm counting on your

John P. "Jake" Conner, Not'l Cmdr.

36 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 on childhood dis- $18,000; Genoa 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, N.Y., $18,000. oundation helps each child be a winner.

"CHILDREN do not moke up 1 00 percent of our population, but they sure moke up 1 00 percent of our future. You con help moke theirs a better future and ours a better world by sending your contribution to The American Legion Child Welfare Foundatioa P.O. Box 538, Indianapolis, IN 46206- 0538, today. Send $10, $15 or whatever you con afford, rm

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

APRIL 1988 37 Legion news briefs

posts throughout the state already are South Carolina Logionnaires planning fund-raising events to help reach the $100,000 first-year goal. Donations from corporations and indi- Momorialize Vietnam Veterans viduals are tax-deductible. The fund, however, is more than just a way to help students pay for higher edu- in South we'd like to obtain a principal of ZEGIONNAIRES $1 cation. As one Legionnaire explained: Carolina are building a memorial million in the account, using the "The Legion in South Carolina long has to Vietnam veterans that neither interest to pay for the scholarships." believed that the Vietnam veteran has time nor the elements can erase, About $40,000 had been raised as The never been adequately recognized. The a tribute that will grow with each pass- American Legion Magazine went scholarship fund pays tribute to those ing year. to press. fine men and women from our state The Department of South Carolina scholarship project unveiled The was who served." has launched The American Legion/ Dec. 17 at the foot of the Vietnam "The fund is more than just a monu- Robert E. "'Jack" David Vietnam Veter- monument in Columbia. Among the ment," Black said. "It is a living memo- ans Children's Scholarship Fund to help prominent Legionnaires attending rial, which will ensure that the Vietnam students meet their college expenses. the ceremony was retired Army Gen. veteran is never forgotten in South The scholarship fund is named after William C. Westmoreland, who Carolina." the current South Carolina department commanded U.S. military forces in commander, who provided a seed dona- Vietnam. tion of $25,000 to the fund. A career Contributions to the fund will be Army officer, who served in World War placed in a trust account administered Agent Opange II and the Vietnam and Korean wars, by three Legionnaire trustees. The trus- David heads the South Carolina Employ- tees and a steering committee are com- Study Must Go On, ment Security Commission. He is pleting details on scholarship eligibility. known throughout the state as a staunch Funds will be available to all eligible veterans'-rights activist. children of Vietnam veterans in the Says Montgomery Dept. Adjutant Bernard L. Black state. South Carolina Legion officials there is consider- said the scholarship program was said. They said that VA statistics indi- ALTHOUGH able debate about its prelimi- created in late 1987, after receiving the cate that about 101 ,000 Vietnam veter- nary findings, the Centers for approval of the department's executive ans live in the state. Disease Control's study on committee. "The scholarships probably will not Agent Orange is in no immediate danger "Our goal for 1988 is to raise become available until the beginning of of being axed, the chairman of the $100,000," Black said. "Eventually, 1989," Black said, adding that Legion House Veterans' Affairs Committee said in a recent interview with The Amer- ican Legion Magazine. "We must keep searching for conclu- PNC DAN DANiEL PASSES AWAY sive answers to the Agent Orange issue," said Rep. G.V. "Sonny" Montgomery of Mississippi. "It took PAST Nafl Cmdr. tions commissions. Wilbur C. "Dan" A 10-term Democratic representa- 30 to 40 years before we had any firm answers on the health effects of tobacco m Daniel, 73, of Dan- tive from Virginia's 5th District, ^ viile, Va., died Daniel earned a reputation on smoking, and it will take time to reach Jan. 23 after suffer- Capitol Hill as being a champion conclusions on the health effects of ing a heart attack at of a strong national defense and exposure to Agent Orange." his son's home in veterans' benefits. He recently The CDC study ground to a halt last that year, after medical researchers said that : Charlottesville. announced he would not seek Daniel, a mem- re-election to the House. they could not reach any conclusions on ber of Danville Post 1097, joined the Survivors include his wife. Ruby, the potential health effects of Agent said that not Legion in 1944 after being discharged and son, Jimmy F. Daniel. Services Orange. They enough the from the Navy. He served in various were held at Mt. Herman Baptist servicemen had been exposed to extensively positions at the post, district and Church in Danville on Jan. 26. defoliant, which was used department levels before being Memorial contributions may be in Vietnam before being banned in elected National Commander in made to Averett College, West Main 1971. The Legion has been in the forefront 1 956. Daniel also chaired the national Street, Danville, VA 24540, or to Foreign Relations, National Security, Life Saving Crew, 202 Christopher of the controversial Agent Orange Economics, Finance and Public Rela- Lane, Danville, VA 24540. issue, urging that studies be conducted to determine its effects on veterans. Top

38 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Everything You Need To Know About FLORIDA RETIREMENT Legion officials have asked the Presi- LIVING ! dent, VA officials, and the secretary of (And Didnl Know Who To Ask) health and human services to resume THANKS the CDC study. A MILLION! "I'm not exactly sure where we go from here," Montgomery said, refer- Donors who have contributed $50 ^ALUE ring to the stalled study, "but we've or more to the American Legion Yours already spent $100 million on it. CDC Child Welfare Foundation (from is going to have to come up with some Jan. 9 through Feb. 5, 1988): For Only answers either way." In discussing other veterans' issues, Marjorie Frerichs $495 Jerry Donndelinger Minnesota Montgomery said VA programs and David A. Eide Minnesota Oscar B.Walterman Missouri services have not been significantly Edward Summers Alabama If you are considering FLORIDA Stanley Whalen Massachusetts the Retirement, this Book is a MUST! affected by Gramm-Rudman- D.R. Levari New Jersey Hollings budget-reduction measure. He Henry Gibson Alabama You can protect yourself by Earl Hall Indiana said that earlier attempts to freeze cost- Mavis Sharp California reading this informative 80-page James Doyle New York book compiled by Art Beckerman, of-living adjustments on veterans' pen- Joseph Cairone Pennsylvania Markham Wisconsin Editor of Florida's Sunshine sions and compensation were unfair Henry State Joseph Sklenar Senior Citizen magazine. Compil- because Social Security payments were Mae Creiz Massachusetts Frank Gwynn Missouri ed with maps, charts, photos and exempted. Franklin Fischer Texas Francisco M. Issac California just plain talk, it tells you "Don't misunderstand," Montgom- California George Hewitt everything you need to make a Hiram Hicks Jr. South Carolina ery said. "In budgetary matters, veter- W.M. Daniel Georgia wise and profitable decision for a ans' programs are by no means sacred Arthur R. Heglund Wisconsin C. Y Fails New Mexico happy Florida retirement. Learn cows. But I maintained, as did the Harris Parker Rhode Island what to look for, and what to look Harper Cilley III North Carolina Legion, that if cuts are going to be Earle Bardon Virginia out for. Indiana just apply to Allen Titus made, fine— make them Patrick Coschignano Colorado LEARN HOW everyone, across the board." Oral Cox South Carolina ...Manufactured homes compare Henry P Bradley Massachusetts One veterans' program that appears James E. Newell Idaho with conventional homes for Eddie L. Dunn Michigan to be thriving is the new GI Bill. Janet M. Longe Michigan quality, value and appreciation. Alberta Richardson Florida ...You can still acquire long term Montgomery said that the education Robert C. Weyenberg Wisconsin Wisconsin financing even at program has attracted high-quality R. Robert Filter fixed rate Mr. and Mrs. Don Scroggins Florida retirement age. people to the armed forces. Recent Ken Franke Texas John C. Dickey Missouri ...Homestead exemption can save statistics show that 92 percent of Army L.E. Kifts West Virginia Edward LaPidus New York you big tax money in Florida. recruits now put up $100 monthly for R.H. Dondelinger Minnesota ...You can determine what area in Eugene Ashe Florida the first year of active duty. In return, William Branch Ohio Florida is best for you. they get $10,800 in education money William Kreger Minnesota D. B. VanLiere New York ...You can tell in advance whether when they separate after a three-year Paul Morin Massachusetts you will be living in a happy George Tsiknas New York enlistment. Raymond Jankowski New York community. John Seery Nebraska "There's no need to apologize for this ...You can tell if the recreational James Schlothan Jr. California program," Montgomery said. "Its cost Coleman Stewart California facilities will satisfy your needs. FG. Seidling Maryland to the government is minimal in the Stan Thompson Iowa ...Renting a lot compares with Ulyses Bauer California owning your homesite. first place. It's one of the best things Wilma White Georgia we've ever done for both the nation and Mary and Jerry McKay Michigan ...To evaluate conveniently locat- Lucille Kingston Wisconsin Facilities. veterans." Mary Williams Wisconsin ed Florida Medical William J. McNally Jr. Oklahoma ...To evaluate the community's Robert Scholfield Massachusetts William R. Egan Colorado security protection. G.S. Hanson Minnesota Helen T. Juskiewicz New Jersey RUSH THIS MONUY SAVING CCJLPON TODAY TOP PERFORMER Renaldo Reed Massachusetts — O R. McCurdy North Dakota Officer Cadet .i b| Clarence M. Bacon Maryland FLORIDA RETIREMENT BOOK, Dept Susan Whitley of Jerry Mustain Oklahoma P.O. Box 850 South Dakota ttie Royal Military Dearld Bagley Lady Lake, Florida 32659 Dorothy Nash South Dakota College of Canada Hershel and Bessie Ladner Mi£ ;ippi Mississippi Enclosed is my check for $4.95 plus $1.00 is the winner of the Jesse and Evelyn Burns Clayton Thompson Mississippi Postage. Send me the Florida Retirement Scholar- ANAVICUS Richard A. Hiser California Book. If you don't believe it's worth the A.M. Rodgers New Jersey ship for 7986-87. money, simply return it for a prompt re- Robin Royce Illinois The scholarship is fund. one of three pre- sented annually Donations should be mailed to the to American and Child Welfare Foundation, RO. Box Canadian students 538, Indianapolis, IN 46206-0538. by the Legion-affil- iated organization.

APRIL 1988 39 Veterans alert

36th Cav. Recon. Sq. (Oct-Oklahoma City, OK) Alvin 725-1834 Veith, 1201 S. 10th, Kingfisher. OK 73750 (405) 375- 129th AAA Gun Bn., HQ Btry. (Sept-Minneapolis, MN) 4437 OUTFIT REUNIONS Charles Bowe, 615 Calumet Ave., Kiel, Wl 53042 (414) 36th Inf. Div. Assn. (Sept-San Antonio, TX) Leonard 894-3402 Wilkerson, Box Guidelines — Outfit Reunion notices are published for 2049, Malakoff,TX 75148 (214) 489-1644 129th Inf., 33/37 Div., I Co. (June-Crystal Lake, IL) Earl Legionnaires only and must be submitted on official Rasmussen, Rt 2, Box 156, Alamo, TN 38001 (901 ) 696- forms. To obtain forms, send a self-addressed, stamped 37th Ord. Co. (WWII) (Oct-Allentown, PA) Tony Gailes, 4183 envelope to: O.R. Form, The American Legion IvIagazine. 481 Dawson Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15202 (412) 734-3275 132nd Gen. Hospital Assn. (Oct-Chicago) John P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, IN 46206. Notices must be 38th Field Hospital (Sept-Evansville, IN) Rex Hughes, Schoeph, 907 N. 18th Ave., Melrose Park, IL 60160 (312) received at least seven months before reunions are 1505 E. 600 South, Jonesboro, IN 46938 (317) 674-4983 344-0248 scheduled and will be published only on a first-come, 39th F.A., 3rd Inf. Div. (WWI/WWII/Korea) (May-Boise, 134th Inf., 35th Div., (Sept-Topeka, KS) James Graff, Rt. first-served basis. ID) Leonard Sidock, 5709 Dugan Ave.. La Mesa, CA 1, Box 54, Middletown, IL 62666 (217) 445-2570 92042 (619) 463-4633 138th Combat Engr. Bn. (Oct-Nashville, TN) James 39th Signal Constr. Bn. (Sept-Evansville, IN) Raymond Cutillo, 8315 MacArthur Rd., Wyndmoor, PA 19118 (215) Adams, 5211 Stratford Rd., Evansville, IN 47710 (812) 836-5529 424-2607 Army 144th Inf., D Co. (Sept-Garrison, TX) Alfred Hudgins, Rt. 40th Recon., 40th Inf. Div. (Aug-Ely lA) Edmund Jones, 1, Box 126B, Daingerfield, TX 75638 (214) 656-2278 2129 Rogers Creek Rd., Ely lA 52227 (319) 848-4219 148th Engr. Combat Bn. (Oct-Washington, PA) Leroy 1st Bn., 129th Inf., 37th Div. (Aug-Columbia, MO) Earl 44th Engr. (C) Bn. (WWII) (Aug-Asheville, NC) Albert Sten, 1396 Beech St. Ext., Washington, PA 15301 (412) Stewart, 245 Forrest Rd., Hurricane, WV 25526 (304) Cline, Box 501, Gaffney, SO 29342 (803) 489-6528 225-9452 562-6168 47th A.I.B., D Co. (1950) (Sept-Columbus, MS) C.E. 150th Combat Engr. Bn. (WWII) (May-Manchester, NH) 2nd Bn., 152nd Inf., 38th Div. HQ (Sept-Anderson, IN) Berry Box 2891, Columbus, MS 39704 (601) 327-1346 Philip Dobruck, 2 Dayton Ct., Newington, CT 06111 Harold Fowler, 3709 Maple Ln., Muncie, IN 47302 (317) 54th QM Base Dpt. (May-St. Louis) Bill Siegrist, 4 Camillo 151st Inf. Rgt., 38th Div., A Co. (July-Troy, Ml) John 282-9659 Dr., Wayne, NJ 07470(201)696-3983 Kashinsky 8317 Russell St., Utica, Ml 48087 (313) 731- 2nd Bn., 161 st F.A., 209th F.A., HQ Btry. (Oct-Humboldt, 60th Engr. (C) Bn., 35th Inf. Div. (Oct-Mt Pocono, PA) 1174

KS) Paul Cook, Rt. 1, Box 115. Quapaw, OK 74363 Arthur Velton, Parkview B, Marshalls Creek, PA 18355 153rd Engr. Bn. (Aug-Allentown, PA) John Mantini Sr., Rt. 2nd Bn., 303rd Inf., 97th Div., HO (Attach. IVIedics) (717)223-0877 3, Box 214, Holsopple. PA 15935 (814) 479-4406 (Sept-St. Louis) John Siegel, 700 N. Vine St., Boonville, 62nd Arm'd F.A. Bn. (Sept-Colorado Springs, CO) Jerry 156th Inf., Co. F (WWII) (Sept-Gatlinburg, TN) George IN 47601 (812)897-4084 Fades, 2312 Skylark St., Arlington, TX 76010 (817) 275- McNair, 119 Maplebrook St., Laurens, SC 29360 (803) 2nd Bn., 410th Inf. (June-Dayton, OH) Elmer Brawe, 3815 1556 984-3102 Hillcrest Dr., Des Moines, lA 50310 (515) 278-2246 63rd Signal Bn. (WWII) (July-Syracuse, NY) Robert 157th Engr. (C) Bn. (WWII) (Aug-Greensburg, PA) 3rd Bn., 343rd Inf. Rgt., 86th Inf. Div. (June-Tarpon Doyle, 109 Robinhood Ln.. Camillus, NY 13031 (315) Roland Clayton. 912 Log College Dr., Warminster, PA 487-0024 Springs, FL) Warren Smith Jr., 3321 E. Dorchester Dr, 189 74 ( 215 ) 67 5-0752 Palm Harbor, FL 34684 (813) 785-4921 64th/3112th Signal Bns., 250th Sig. Serv. Co. (June- 159th Inf. Rgt., 7th Inf. Div., FCo. (Sept-Denver) Willard 3rd Engr. Spec. Bde., HQ & HQ Co. (Oct-Williamsburg, Bethlehem, PA) William Rathgeb, 136 Country Club Neumann, 9020 Primrose Ln., Hickory Hills, IL 60457 VA) Creighton DeMarr, 4241 Ammendale Rd., Beltsville, Blvd., Tuckerton, NJ 08087 (609) 296-1832 (312)839-5978 MD 20705 (301) 937-2936 70th Inf. Div. (Sepl-Nashville, TN) Alvin Thomas, 203 S, 160th Inf., A Co. (Sept-Irving, TX) Franklin Kempf, 6083 4th Arm'd Assn. (July-Moline, IL) Samuel Schenker Sr, Major, Eureka, IL 61530 (309) 467-3519 Hwy 60 E., Hartford, Wl 53027 (414) 673-5516 Victoria 74th F.A. Bn. (Aug-Altadena, CA) Bill Doose, 2391 Santa 2440 Dr , Sharon, PA 16146 (412) 981 -3988 164th Inf. Rgt. Assn. (Oct-Valley City ND) W.C. Griffin, 4th Gen. Hospital (Aug-lndianapolis) William Budke, 4 Rosa Ave., Altadena, CA 91001 (818) 794-5462 Box 541. Valley City ND 58072 Div. Country ClubTerr, Glendale, MO 63122 (314) 965-4770 80th Vets Assn. (WWI/WWII) (Aug-Norfolk, VA) 164th Inf., I Co. (WWII) (June-Wahpeton, ND) Ira Keeney, Div. Clarence Brockman, 334 Fannie St., McDonald, PA 521 St. 6th Arm'd Assn. (Sept-Richmond, VA) Edward Reed, 2nd No , Wahpeton, ND 58075 (701 ) 642-4314 Box 5011, Louisville, KY 40205 15057(412)926-2044 165th AAA Gun Bn., D Btry. (July-Lafayette, IN) Gerald 6th F.A. Btry. (1954-56) (Aug-Bloomington. IN) Robert 81st Chemical Mtr. Bn. (Sept-Anniston, AL) Edward Davis, 2023 Modoel Ave., Lafayette, IN 47904 (317) 742- McCoy, 3397 N. Hartstrait Rd., Bloommgton, IN 47401 Tiberio, 259 Pumpkin Hill, New Milford, CT 06776 (203) 4397 (812)876-2829 354-6718 166th Combat Engr. Bn. (Sept-Warwick, Rl) Vincent 7th Engr. Bn. (Aug-Niles, Ml) Charles Marks, 8234 81st QM Co., 81st Inf. Div. (Sept-Glenwood Springs, CO) Ricci, 89 Marlow St., Cranston, Rl 02920 (401) 942-6489 Parkridge Dr., Ft. Wayne, IN 46825 (219) 489-4265 S.F Slaugh, 188 So. 1350 West, Vernal, UT 84078 (801) 167th Inf., M Co. (WWII) (Oct-Birmingham, AL) William 9th & 10th Cav. Assn. (Buffalo 789-3318 Smith, 506 College St., Moulton, 974- Soldiers) (July-Los AL 35650 ( 205) Angeles) Franklin Henderson, 5338 Garth Ave., Los 83rd Inf. Div. Assn. (Sept-Hershey PA) Robert Derick- 7768 son, Angeles, CA 90056 (213) 293-0547 3749 Stahlheber Rd , Hamilton, OH 45013 (513) 168th Inf., 34th Div., Anti Tank (May-Bryan, OH) Robert 9th Inf. Div. (WWII) (June-Hyannis, MA) Daniel Quinn, 863-2199 Ernsberger, Rt 5, Bryan, OH 43506 (419) 636-3560 85th Ordnance Co. (HMTK) (Aug-Champion, PA) Sherm 412 Gregory Ave , Weehawken, NJ 07087 170th Combat Engrs., A/B/C/HQ Cos. (Sept-Camp 10th IVItn. Div. (S.E. Chapter) (Apr-Nashville, TN) Brizzi, 404 S. 5th St., West Newton, PA 15089 (412) 872- Dodge, lA) Bill Long, 914 W. Summit, Crescent, lA 50812 Maurice Murphy 22 Bethesda ParkCir, Boynton Beach, 8379 (515) 782-5112 FL 33435 (305) 736-5940 90fh Div. Assn. (Sept-St. Louis) Thomas Medlin, 317 S. 179th Inf. Div., Serv. Co. (Korea) (Sept-Black River 10th Mtn. Div., Famed Ski Troopers (Mid-West/WWII) Harrison St.. Sherman. TX 75090 (214) 893-2395 Falls, Wl) Daniel Murphy 1101 3rd St. No., St. Cloud, MN (Aug-Madison, Wl) Harry Gianneachi. 1206 Brairwood 94th Inf. Div. (Sept-Denver) Ross Jordan, 1415 Orion Rd., 56303(612)251-6567 Ln., Libertyville, IL 60048 (312) 362-9239 Batavia, IL 60510 (312) 879-7157 187th Signal Repair Co. (Sept-Minneapolis) Osmund 11th Amr'd Div. (Aug-Phoenix, AZ) Alfred Pfeiffer, 2328 95th Inf. Div. (Aug-Cleveland, OH) Lester Wolf, Box 1274, Nygaard, 8800 Beard Ave. So.. Bloomington, MN 55431 Admiral St.. Aliquippa, PA 15001 (412) 375-6295 Chicago, IL 60690 (612)831-6132 14th Field Hospital (1942-45) (June-Kansas City, MO) 99th Signal Bn. ((WWII)) (Oct-Orlando, FL) George 190th F.A. Grp. Assn. (WWII) (July-Reading, PA) Wes Paul Seaburg, 6441 14th Ave. So., Richfield, MN 55423 Heick, 135 Woodrose Way Venice, FL 34293 (813) 493- Duttinger, Box 111, Sunbury PA 17801 (717) 286-2708 (612)866-7066 3016 192nd Gen. Hospital (Sept-Gettysburg, PA) Peter 15th Evac. Hospital (Oct-Holyoke, MA) William Tully. 582 101st AA AW Bn. (July-Atlanta) Lee Johnson. 1444 Rakauskas, 118 Green Ridge St., Scranton, PA 18509

Pleasant St., Holyoke, MA 01040 (413) 533-6086 Baracoa Ave. , Coral Gables, FL 33146 (305) 666-3025 (717)347-9691 16th F.A. Observ. Bn. (June-Ft Mitchell, KY) Houston 102nd Inf. Div. (July-Cincinnati) Ralph Barringer, 996 202nd MP Co. (Aug-Chicago) Rev William Patterson, St Standley Mosley Box 767, Charleston, WV25323 (304) 776-1993 Rd , Rt 7, Defiance, OH 43512 (419) 784-1064 Monica Church, 4252 Pine St., New Boston. OH 45662 17th Inf. Rgt. (Mid-West) (July-Bellevue, NE) Jerome 105th AAA AW Bn. (June-Biloxi, MS) Margaret Baker, Rt (614)456-5154

1, Box 276A, Strasburg, OH 44680 (216) 878-5080 Btry. (July-Chehalis, Lowrey, 1860 Robertson Dr , Omaha, NE 68114 (402) 205th CA AA, F WA) E M. Young, 393-7426 107th AW AA, B Btry. (Aug-Clinton, SC) Boyd Holtzclaw, Box 1063, Elma, WA 98541 (206) 482-4738 18th FA Bde., 6th Corp Arty., HQ & HQ Btrys. (June- 411 Broad St., Clinton, SC 29325 (803) 833-1069 209th F.A., 161 st Rgt., 2nd Bn. (June-Arkansas City KS) Evansville, IN) Walter McDermott, 308 S. Stormont St., 108th Inf., 27th Div., HQ Co. AGTL (Sept-Harnsonburg, Jack Embrey 1420 E. 2nd St., Winfield. KS 67156 (316) Princeton, IN 47670 (812) 385-4988 VA) Nelson Wetsel, 207 Flint Ave., Belmont Est., 221-1238 19th Combat Engrs (WWII) (Sept-Superior, Wl) Mahlon Harrisonburg, VA 22801 (703) 434-4037 214th AAA Gun Bn., B Btry. (WWII) (Aug-Pittsburgh) Campbell, 307 Rogers Rd., Trooper, Norristown, PA 110th Engr. (C) Bn., A,B,C,H&S Cos. (June-San Ralph Snyder, No. Centre Ave., Box 81, Leesport, PA 19403 (502) 539-9140 Antonio, TX) George Dahm, 217 Mustang TrI., Kerrsville, 19533 (215)921-0261 23rd Inf. Rgt., 2nd Inf. Div. (Korea) (July-Kansas City, TX 78028(512)895-3246 232nd Inf., 42nd Div., L Co. (All EX-POWs) (June) MO) Wallace Woods, 1902 Buckthorn Ln., Reston, VA 113th AAA Gun Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Chicago) Norbert James Reedy Jr.. 4890 Hedgewall Cir, Memphis, TN 22091 (703) 860-4090 Socke, 700 Elizabeth Dr, #23AL, Wood Dale, IL 60191 38115(901)363-0634 29th Div. Assn. (WWI/WWII) (Sept-Akron, OH) Lester (312)766-5118 243rd Port Co. (Oct-Orlando, FL) Nelson Shearer, 202 Meredith, 1598 Koons Rd., No, Canton, OH 44720 (216) 113th Ordnance Co. MM (Sept-Glen Burnie, MD) Red 2nd St., Towanda, PA 18848 (717) 265-5445 896-2783 Whittenberger, 601 Oakland Hills Ct., #202, Arnold, MD 257th F.A. Bn. (Aug-Midland, Ml) Gerald Clark, 109 30th Inf. Div. (Keystone Chapter) (Sept-Gettysburg, PA) 21012 (301) 757-0791 Meadow Ln,, Midland, Ml 48640 (517) 835-2711 Larry Metzler Jr., 30 Afton Ave.. Crafton, PA 15205 (412) 115th/196th FA Bns. (WWII) (Aug-Huntsville, AL) George 269th F.A. Bn. (Summer-Columbia. SC) Coy Sanders, 921-8272 Wood, Rt. 1, Box 44, Tyler, AL 36785 (205) 872-0729 7712 Edgewater Dr., Columbia, SC 29223 (803) 788- 31 st Inf. Div. Arty., HQ Btry. (WWII) (Sept-Nashville, TN) 116th Signal Radio intell. Co. (May-Evansville, IN) 5684 Gerald Elliott, 2930 Claremont Rd,, Raleigh, NO 27608 Oscar Loveless, Rt. 2, Box 411, Elberfeld, IN 47613 (812) 291st Combat Engrs. (Aug-Syracuse, NY) Francis 34th Combat Engr. Bn. (Korea/1945-46) (Sept-Bis- 983-4505 Dooling, 106 Park St., Syracuse, NY 13203 (315) 479- marck, ND) Robert Jones, 10 Park Ct., Napoleon, OH 120th AAA Gun Bn. (WWII) (June-No Canton, OH) 7838 43545(419)592-9691 Robert Jones, 3340 Timmy St., N.W., Uniontown, OH 292nd JASCO (Sept-Louisville, KY) Bill Keatting, 8507 34th Evac. Hospital (WWII) (Sept-Dallas) Joe 44685(216)699-4244 OldShep. Rd., Louisville, KY 40219 (502) 969-0345 Thompson, 806 Central Ct., High Point, NC 27260 (919) 125th AAA Gun Bn. (July-Columbus, OH) Clarence 295th JASCO Co. (Sept-Lancaster, PA) Clayton Thomas, 885-0689 Vollmer, 940 Plum Ridge, Columbus, OH 43213 (614) 418 W. King St., Lancaster, PA 17603 35th Field Hospital (Sept-Milwaukee, Wl) Milton 866-2574 301st Ordnance, 976th Ord., N CO. (Sept-Fargo, ND) Janecek, Rt 2, Box 147A, Wausaukee, Wl 54177 (715) 127th Inf. Vets Assn. (Sept-Appleton, Wl) James Wallace Olerud, 2003 S. 7th St., Moorhead, MN 56560 856-5905 Williams, 1071 Lake Shore Dr., Menasha.WI 54952 (414) (218) 233-3945

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LONE SAILOR Statue Sculpted for the 303rd Inf. Rgt., F Co. (Sept-St. Louis) Roy Sommerfeld, 605th Tank Destroyer Bn. (Sept-Findlay, OH) Charles from the 1214 Douglas, Wayne, NE 68787 (402) 375-4024 Paul, 6502 Duet Ln., Cincinnati, OH 45239 (513) 923- United States Navy Memorial. Washington, l),C. 306th Field Hospital (Apr-Bethlehem, PA) Herb Repsher, 4497 217 Nazareth Pke., Bethlehem, PA 18017 608th Tank Destroyer Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Lancaster, PA) 313th Inf. Rgt., 79th Div. (WWII) (July-Lexington, KY) Harry Rapp, 317 W. King St., Lancaster, PA 17603 (717) Bruno Crisafi, 542 6th St., Campbell, OH 44405 (216) 394-7942 744-2968 612th Engr. L.P. Equip. Co. (Aug-Omaha, NE) Norman 324th Inf. Rgt., 44th Div. (WWII) (Sept-St. Louis) Misfeldt, Box 391, Arlington, NE 68002 (402) 478-5241 Lawrence Hendricks, 2190 Sibley St., St. Charles, MO 624th Om. Ldry. Co. (July-Clayton, NY) Tony Forti, 143 63301 (314) 724-4984 Summit St., Batavia, NY 14020 (716) 343-6525 328th Inf. (WWII) (Oct-Plymouth, MA) Bob Clapp, 208 628TH T.D. Bn. (July-West Middlesex, PA) George Aspinwall Ave., Brookline, MA 02146 Howell, 138 Quaker Church Rd., Randolph, NJ 07869 332nd Topo. Engrs. (Oct-Allentown, PA) Tom Bucchin, 631st FA., F Btry. (Later C Btry.) (July-Great Bend, KS) 1420 Monocacy St., Bethlehem, PA 18018 (215) 691- Paul Damm, 1010 Holland, Great Bend, KS 67530 (913) 877-2085 346th Ord. Field Dpt. Co. (Oct-Las Vegas, NV) Franklin 632nd Engr. Light Equip. Co. (June-Annapolis, MD) Hobby, 925 Broughton Rd., Pittsburgh, PA 15236 (412) Richard Anderson, 972 St. Margarets Ave., Rt. 4,

653-3633 Annapolis, MD 21401 (301 ) 757-7640 355th Engr. Rgt. (July-Lexington, KY) John Geran, 3345 640th Tank Destroyer Bn. (Sept-Salt Lake City, UT) Glen Post Rd., #101, Lexington, KY 40503 (606) 223-8064 Johnson, 8771 South 1260 East, Sandy UT 84070 (801) 360th General Serv. Engrs. (June-lrwin, PA) Edward 255-1069 Ziats, Box 257, Marianna, PA 15345 (412) 267-3793 671st Engrs. (Topo) (July-Botkins, OH) Bill Korn, 17577 390th AAA AW Bn. (sp) (June-Vancouver, WA) Merle Montra Rd., Rt. 1, Anna, OH 45302 (513) 596-6786 Merry, Box 626, Colfax, WA 99111 (509) 397-3601 687th Engr. (W.S.) Co. (1951-58) (June-Ft. Lewis, WA) 400th AAA AW Bn. (Sept-Nashville, TN) Robert Waters Roland Kappel, 300 Luanne Rd., Stratford, CT 06497 Sr., 125 Highland Ave., Highlands, NJ 07732 (201) 872- (203) 375-4568 1668 701st MP Bn. D Co. (Oct-Waverly, lA) Herbert Albrecht, 405th AAA Gun Bn. (Oct-Roanoke, VA) Warren Dillard, Rt. 2, Fairbank, lA 50629 (319) 635-2624 2033 10th St. N.W., Roanoke. VA 24012 (703) 366-3576 709th Tank Bn. (WWII) (Oct-Louisville, KY) Paul Claster, 410th AAA Bn., 364th MP Co., A Btry. (July-Rockwood, 19 Towne Terr. Apts., Middletown, NY 10940 (914) 343-

PA) Jay Houpt, Rt. 1, Box 41, Rockwood, PA 15557 (814) 4879 926-2284 713th MP Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Utica, NY) William Fegley

411th AAA Gun Bn. (WWII) (July-Indianapolis) Edgar 104 Underclitf Ct., Ridgewood, NJ 07450 (201 ) 444-2724 Gusler, 530 Gardner Ct., Marion, IN 46952 (317) 664- 720th MP Bn. (June-Laurel, MD) Joseph Selovich, 1909 2227 35th St., Kenosha, Wl 53140 (414) 654-0517 428th MPEG Co. (Aug-Atlanta) J.W. Burson, 544 W. 736th Med. Tank Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Las Vegas, NV) Macedonia Ch. Rd., Oxford, GA 30267 (404) 786-2219 Vernon Tweit, 1220 Puget, Bellingham, WA 98226 (206) 435th T.C. Wing & Affiliated Organ. (1947-79) (April) 734-7458 Ray Dunkman, 1370 N.E. 200 Terr, No. Miami Beach, PL 740th AAA Bn. (WWII) (Oct-Fredericksburg, VA) Ralph 33179 Smith, 1034 Ficklen Rd., Fredericksburg, VA 22405 442nd Medical Collect. Co. (Sept-Morehead City, NC) (703)371-5922 Alan Armstrong, 2101 Evans St., Morehead City, NC 742nd MP Co. (Aug-Golden, CO) Don Martindale, 1320 28557 (919) 247-7210 1st St. S.E.,Oelwein, lA 50662 (319)283-4027 446th AAA AW Bn. (Sept-Morton, MS) W.T Tramel. Box 748th MP Bn. (Oct-Las Vegas, NV) Herbert Carlson, 200

85, Raleigh, MS 39153 (601 ) 782-4326 3rd St. E.. Tracy, MN 56175 (507) 629-4555 449th AAA AW Bn., B Btry. (Oct-Rocky Hill, CT) John 765th TRSB (Pusan, Korea) (Sept-Niagara Falls, NY) Markoya, 1083 Capitol Ave., Bridgeport, CT 06606 (203) Bob Kalan, 1351 Robinhood Dr., Sherwood Oaks, Elgin, 336-2000 IL 60120 (312)695-2028 476th AAA AW Bn. (Aug-Birmingham, AL) John 771st F.A. Bn., A Btry. (June-King of Prussia, PA) Sharpton, 415 Porter Cir, Columbia, TN 38401 (615) Lawrence McPherson, 606 Sutton Dr., Xenia, OH 45385 388-7121 (513) 372-4347 481st AAA AW Bn. (Oct-Ft. Mitchell, KY) Dr Everett Rich 775th Tank Destroyer Bn., 728th Amph. Tractor Bn. Jr., 618 Locust PI., Sewickley. PA 15143 (412) 741-6623 (Aug-Nashville, TN) Earl Williams, Rt. 1. Box 253, 482nd Med. Coll. Co. (Sep) (Oct-Columbus, OH) John Winchester, TN 37398 (615) 967-1873 Sutula, 936 Engineers BIdg., Cleveland, OH 44114 (216) 813th Base Dpt. (Aug-Columbus, OH) Charles Mileus- 861 -3080 nich, 1290 Moler Rd., Columbus, OH 43207 (614) 444- 483rd AAA AW Bn. (June-Chapel Hill, TN) William 9716 Haygood, Rt. 11, Box 474, Florence, AL 35630 (205) 764- 819th Tank Destroyer Bn. (July-Clinton, lA) George The Lone Sailor statue is a dramatic symbol of every 9412 Lollich, 1511 N. 4th St., Clinton, IA52732 (319) 243-1600 person who has ever worn the Navy blue. Now you may 487th AAA Bn., 8 Btry. (Oct-lrving, TX) Cleetus Goss, 821st AVN Engrs., A Co. (July-Streator, IL) Daniel display your LoneSailor, which is being issued by the 5043 Brillo St., San Diego, CA 92117 (619) 273-3736 Schlecht, Box 413, Woodruff, Wl 54568 (715) 356-3704 own 489th Port Bn. (Aug-Jacksonville, IL) Edward Souza, 836th AVN Engrs. (Aug-Scottsdale, AZ) David United States Historical Society in cooperation with the 1007 N. Fayette, Jacksonville, IL 62650 (217) 245-6820 McConaghie, 3536 E. Altadena Ave., Phoenix, AZ85028 U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation. When you acquire a Lone 491st Engr. Base Equip. Co. (Sept-Reno, NV) Joe Ryan, 996-2460 (602) Sailor, you become a Sponsor of the Memorial on Penn- 1026 Wranglers TrI., Pebble Beach, CA 93953 (408) 375- 847th Ord. Depot Co. (June-Southern Pines, NC) Rosser sylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.— a living tribute to 5218 Campbell, Box 728, Sanford, NC 27330 (919) 776-2471 all the men and women of the Navy who have served their 497th AAA Gun Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Dayton, OH) LaVerne 864th EAB, H&S Co. (Sept-St. Louis) H.E. Bouchard, 10 8- Huschke. 2141 Memorial Dr., Janesville, Wl 53545 (608) Elm St., Pittsfield, NH 03263 (603) 435-8637 country in war and peace. Available in two versions: 890th Chemical Co. (Sept-Las Vegas, NV) Fred Bloszies, inch bonded-bronze, mounted on wooden base, and 15- 502nd AAA Bn. (Sept-Monroeville, PA) Jim Seibert, 1310 15252 Seneca Rd., Sp. 307, Victorville, CA 92392 (619) inch genuine bronze, mounted on marble base. Valley View Ave., Wheeling, WV 26003 (304) 242-5153 241 -6630 506th AAA Gun Bn. (Sept-Lancaster, PA) Dean Olin, 893rd AAA AW Bn., A Btry. (Sept-Syracuse, NY) Dan YES! I wish to acquire the following Lone 5

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memorabilia have been given to the Smithsonian Institution, where they're First Silver DoUar displayed in a special Doolittle niche. Original 200 year old coins — Doolittle is best remembered as the intrepid leader of the Tokyo attack. real legal tender of our 13 colonies! Still, he has found it difficult to regard that fabled mission without misgiv- ings. The cost was frightfully high — nine men dead, four seriously wounded, all planes lost. The cost to the Chinese was even greater. After the raid the Japanese unleashed a savage, three-month assault on the province that had aided the airmen, penetrating 200 miles into China and razing entire villages. "War is lousy," said the general. "There's got to be some other way to These historic silver dollars (1772-1821) were our 13 colonies' most popular settle differences." But he remained adamant in his belief that a strong April, 1988 MONTPELIER, VT. Because the supply was originally defense is vital to this country's sur- International Coins & Currency, discovered in the Far East, genuine vival and that America must keep its Inc. a national distributor of "Chinese merchant markings" are guard up against the Soviet Union. "If numismatic coins, is offering for often visible and serve to authen- you're going to take Russia in as a sale a limited number of original ticate the coins. friend, you don't need enemies." coins up to 200 years old — among Because of the age and historical One of Doolittle's promises to his the first large silver dollars minted significance of these coins, you men before they left the Hornet on their in the Americas. These magnifi- might expect to pay up to several historic mission was to throw the cent silver coins once circulated in hundred dollars for one. But while biggest party they had ever known our original 13 colonies. Because supplies last, they are available on a when they gathered at Chungking. That of their high silver content and first-come, first-served basis to col- never happened, of course, and the war popularity, Thomas Jefferson lectors at: (Order #7144A) years that followed forestalled any recommended that they become 1 coin $75; 2 coins $150; celebration. But in December 1945 official legal tender of the United 3 coins $215 (save $10); Doolittle made good on his promise. States. 5 coins $345 (save $30). All surviving veterans of the raid 10 coins $675 (save $75). descended on a Miami hotel and had Minted from 1772-1821, these such a memorable reunion that they silver dollars were the most There is a limit of 10 coins per customer. satisfaction is made it an annual three-day event. popular coins of our 13 colonies and Your 100% guaranteed — you may return your Their numbers are now down to 46. were used as legal tender in the USA order for a no-questions- But each April when they get together, up until 1857. As collectors turn to prompt they raise their silver goblets to those American coin classics, these scarce asked refund within 15 days (less raiders who have died. The goblets are silver dollars are increasingly postage and handling of course). held in a special case, along with a bot- sought-after. To order your coins by credit card, tle call toll free 1-800-451-4463, of brandy that will not be opened Struck at the Americas' oldest at 24 until the when only raiders hours day, 7 (in- day two mint in Mexico City and a days a week remain. denominated 8 Reales, these silver cluding Sundays). If you prefer, At one reunion, Doolittle was dollars were the forerunners of the send check or money order in full amused and flattered when he over- amount to: International first U.S. silver dollar minted in 1794 Coins & heard one of the men say, "It wouldn't — and served as the most favored Currency, Inc., 11 E. State St., RO. surprise me a bit if the old S.O.B. turns 218, Dept. Montpelier. Ver- trade coin in the world. Yet huge Box 456,

out to be one of the last two." for 1 coin or silver melts and the fact that mont 05602. Add $3.75 Reflecting on his long and exciting relatively few were saved from $5.00 for more than 1 coin to cover life, Doolittle said: "I have never felt destruction make these coins postage and handling. Special fear. I have a one-track mind. If I'm "sleeping" classics. Each silver presentation cases for individual thinking about how to do something coins are also available at $2.50 dollar is a big 39.5 mm in diameter, important — such as staying alive — contains 27.07 grams of .903 pure each. ICC's Numismatic Director is my mind is totally absorbed with that. Life the silver, and each comes with a Cer- Member No. 3798 of There is no room for fear. And when the American Numismatic Association. tificate of Authenticity attesting to its danger is past, there is no for need 1986, ICC. Inc. fine quality and genuine status. © fear."

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Militarily, the United States is not very reluctant to take steps that could giving up very much. Even at the full be portrayed as being provocative. Dis- INF TREATY planned deployment, the Pershing II persing missiles that are capable of Continuedfrom page 20 and ground-launched cruise missiles striking Soviet territory might be vital

were vulnerable to a pre-emptive from a military point of view, but it Soviet attack. Concentrated on just undoubtedly would be opposed as

eight bases and unprotected even being provocative. And it is far from cess has vindicated the administration's against conventional weapons, the clear that NATO's creaky decision- approach to arms control: Put forth American missiles could have survived making process could move quickly reasonable proposals that serve Amer- attack only if they had been dispersed enough for dispersal to be effective, ican interests, then sit still for as long as to the field. especially if the warnings were ambigu- necessary until the Soviets come Yet there is little reason to believe ous, as they invariably are. around. To make this approach work, that NATO could have taken the risk of Those who oppose the treaty on doc- one must be prepared to go without an moving medium-range missiles during trinal grounds believe that the removal agreement, and one must be patient. a crisis. In past crises, NATO has been of medium-range missiles will weaken NATO by linking conventional forces in Europe with the American strategic deterrent based in the United States. NOT A WAX .. NOT A POLY . . NOT A POLISH . . BUT AN ACRYLIC They argue that in order to support NATO's strategy of responding to any kind of Soviet attack, we must have weapons deployed in Europe, weapons PLASTIC COATING that can reach targets deep in the Soviet Union. Without such weapons, they KB SHICID say, the United States will be "de- coupled" from its European partners. But even after the Pershings and NOT cruise missiles are gone, along with IN STORES 2,000 warheads on Soviet missiles, NATO still will have about 6,000 nuclear weapons deployed in Europe, Plastic Coat Your Car In some of which are carried by F-1 1 bombers that can go deep into Soviet territory. The remaining weapons — Less Than 1 Hour including short-range missiles, bombs $o95 and artillery shells — should leave the NEW CAR DEALERS CHARGE UP TO $200 Soviets in no doubt that NATO could MIRACLE POLYMER ACRYLIC FORMULATION ACTUALLY RESURFACES counter an attack, if necessary, with AND RESEALS IN ONE SIMPLE STEP GIVES YOUR CAR "SHOWROOM- battlefield nuclear weapons or with BRILLIANCE THAT LASTS FOR THREE ^EMKS—GUARANTEED! American missiles launched from the United States against Soviet targets. As Put an end to corrosion, ctialking, WHY WE'RE NOT SOLD IN STORES SELF IT S THE BEST WE rusting, dulling, and pitting of your Retailers don't want products guaran- GUARANTEE IT' it is difficult to imagine any extensive car's finish. GLO-SHIELD protects teed tor 3 full years— They want car — ACRYLIC IS THE SECRET! — your car s finish and restores it, too! products like polish and wax. that shine use of nuclear in a superpow- • DON T CONFUSE GLO-SHIELD ACRYUC weapons You that for at best that can bring back new car look good a few weeks so PRODUCTS WITH IMITATIONS! in less the will ers war that would not rapidly escalate than one hour with hardly any you consumer come • NO RUBBING . . NO BUFFING! effort at all! GLO-SHIELD revitalizes back and spend again & again • CLEANS. COMPOUNDS. POLISHES. SEALS! to the use of central strategic systems, and restores dull, oxidised finishes A CHALLENGE • USE ON ANY PAINT FINISH

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The Affordable CENTURY A ward- Winning PROTOTYPE Continuedfrom page 12 MOBILE HOME COMMUNITIES' Communities of Florida YOURS FOR: . PERMANENT Colonial ^rmp RETIREMENT LIVING My 14, 1777 . SECOND HOME Philadelphia, Pennsylvania LIVING

. INVESTMENT Andrew Farnsworth HOMES President Farnsworth & Cooper Cannon

Century Communities offer you a wide range of Fun-in-the-Sun choices in new mobile & Carriage Company Wilfred Corners, Massachusetts iiome living, including communities with . . . waterfront living and marinas . . . golf course living . . . large clubhouse . . . heated swimming pools . . . Jacuzzi whirlpools . . . plus many other amenities. For service and financial savings. Century offers its own Mortgage Company, In Reply, Insurance Company and Travel Club Agency programs to its home buyers. Refer to: WPO-44962 Some are double-wide communities with prices from $29,900 and some are single-wide communities with prices from $17,900. Dear Mr Farnsworth:

We are pleased to advise you that your A II 14 Communities have Learn about the choices along with the advantages avail- company has been selected as one offour to Guaranteed Lifetime Leases able to you as offered by Florida's largest provider of new mobile home communities: build a T2C-3 prototype cannon. and are Developed MAIL TO: Terms the contract are cost materials and Operated by of of CENTURY COMMUNITIES (813) 647-1581 plus a fixed fee of 5 percent. On the basis of —CENTUR Y— P.O Box 5252 • Lakeland, FL 33803 your proposed cost, the target price will be '$400 Name with a profit fee of $20. You are Choice locations include Ocala, cautioned to keep exact records of supplies Leesburg, Wildwood, Tampa- Street Addr purchased and time expendedfor the produc- Plant City, Winter Haven, Lake- Citv tion this unit as auditors the Government land, Haines City, Sebring, Eustis, of of Accounting Ojfice will review expenditures Zephyrhills, Ft. Myers and Pine Phone Island. prior to contract completion and payment. Such promotional expenditures as the cost of the sign outside your plant you mentioned are not allowable as costs chargeable against AMAZING NIGHT-DRMNG GLASSES government contracts. Work performed prior PREVENT HEADLIGHT GLARE... to the date of this contract is considered part SEE of the cost ofproposal and will be discounted MORE CLEARLY AT NIGHT by the GAO.

You are cautioned that the product you are building has a security classification of "secret" and must be kept from the view of unauthorized persons at all times.

During the course of this contract, your NOT THIS NIGHT-OWL NIGHT DRIVING GLASSES designated contracting officer is: Now see better wtiile DRIVING AT NIGHT delighted, return for FULL REFUND. Order with our REMARKABLE NITE-OWL NIGHT number 309E14. ONLY $12.95 (+$1 Major Mollis Corby DRIVING GLASSES! Worn by PROFESSION- postage) — amazing value for glasses Contracting Officer AL DRIVERS for yeors, ttiese special with all these features! NEW - CLIP-ON T2C-3 Weapons Systems AMBER lenses eliminate 94% of STYLE for prescription glasses. NOW Weapons Procurement Branch dangerous tieadllghit glare, reducing REDESIGNED TO FIT ALL GLASSES. Order Headquarters, Colonial Army eye fatigue and sudden "nighit blind- number 312E14. Only $12.95 (+$1 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ness". UNBELIEVABLY AMAZING until you postage). SPECIAL OFFER! Buy 2 pairs of try a pair yourself. NfTE-OWL NIGHT either regular or clip-on style for $25.90 By Order ofthe Comtnanding Officer DRIVING GLASSES are not sunglasses, postage) but (+$2 and you get the THIRD Major Mollis Corby SCIENTIFICALLY DESIGNED night lenses pair AT NO CHARGE! You save $13.95! Contracting Officer developed to cut glare and sharpen JUST DEVELOPED - DELUXE NITEOWLS T2C-3 Weapons Systems contrast in both overcast and night Specially ground and polished night driving conditions. YOU can see driving lenses set In sturdy goldtone Weapons Procurement Branch amazingly clearly v\/tien driving in HAZE, AVIATOR frame. WITH deluxe hard Headquarters, Colonial Army RAIN. FOG. SNOW. DARKNESS. Smartly protective carrying case ($10 VALUE) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania designed goldtone AVIATOR styling. included. Order number 311E14. ONLY HCbj Wrap-around temples adjust for $19.95 (+$1 postage). DELUXE CUP-ON comfortable no-slip fit. Adjustable with patented flip-up mechanism and nosepiece and wide angle lenses fit precision lenses. Order number 327 E14 both men and women. WITH AVIATOR JUST $19.95 (+$1 postage). SPECIAL 3 Colonial ^rmp STYLE CARRYING CASE ( $5 VALUE) ORDER pairs Deluxe (regular or clip-on) for only YOUR NITE-OWL NIGHT DRIVING GLASSES $39.90 (+$2 postage). IMMEDIATE July 15, 1777 NOW - RISK FREEI Try for 30 days. If not SHIPMENT GUARANTEED! Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ORDERING INRORMATION: Fla. residents add 6% sales tax. Mail remittance to: T. KIRKWALL. DEPT. E14, P.O. BOX 50428. POMPANO BEACH. FL 33074. Visa, MasterCard, | Am. Express accepted. Toll Free 1-800-453-4000. (offices at 2971 N.E. 27th Avenue). Andrew Farnsworth President

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Farnsworth & Cooper Cannon & Carriage Company Wilfred Corners, Massachusetts Authorized Liquidation NATIONALLY FAMOUS r'ig£l HOME SHOPPING CLUB In Reply, Refer to: SRA 7732 BRING HOME A BUNDLE OF JOY

Dear Mr Farnsworth: As a weapons-system prime contractor to the Jfewborn Babyl^oiis Colonial Army of the Continental Congress, you are herein advised ofgovernment regula- tions that apply to such contractors.

1. Weapons-system contractors will main- tain such security as necessary to prevent weapons developments from falling into unauthorized hands. Such guards as necessary to protect the weapons-manu- facturing area will be hired. Fences and walls may be constructed to assist in carrying out this requirement. All employ- ees will complete Security Form No. 287 and receive clearance from the Colonial Bureau of Investigation prior to being assigned to work on this contract.

2. In order to fulfill the objectives which led to the establishment of the Small Business Administration, you are directed to subcontract at least 20 percent of this contract to qualified small businesses in your area.

3. The Fair Employment Practices Commis- sion requires that you, as a federal con- tractor, provide equal employment oppor- tunities to all. No person is to be denied They're Movable, They're Realistic, employment for reasons of race, creed, color or nation oforigin. They're Anatomically Correct . . < COMES DRESSED IN SLEEVELESS TOP WITH 4. The federal postal have advised officials JUST LIKE THE REAL THING! BLUE (BOY) OR PINK this office the regulations concerning (GIRL) TRIM PLUS DIAPER, NAVEL BAN- proper use of the mails have not been Send out the DAGE & HOSPITAL ID RETAIL BRACELET! in past correspondence with the followed ff yj r\ r\r\ announcements < 20" LENGTH WITH government of the Colonies. Use of the — two new cud- MOVABLE HEAD, ARMS & LEGS! address "Independent Colony Mas- 1^ of dly, wrinkly • REALISTIC V sachusetts " as used in past correspond- "babies" are FINGERS. TOES & FACE ' SOFT, SOUEEZABLE ence must cease, the NOW ONLY and authorized coming to your VINYL BODY IS COMPLETELY WASHABLE! " postal address "Massachusetts is to be home... to de- MOUTH HOLDS PACIFIER! YOUR CHOICE Of ANATOMICALLY CORRECT used in the future on all correspondence $2450 light and edu- I BABY BOY OR GIRL! ofyour company, whether with federal Your Choice cate your child! offices or with civilian customers. Just "released bodies of these NEWBORNS

5. An authorized representative of this office from the hospital", each sensa- have realistic, softly wrinkled skin is being assigned to yourfacility to super- tional life-size NEWBORN is and are even anatomically cor- vise production under this contract to complete with hospital ID tag on rect — not like those unnatural ensure that all terms of the contract are its wrist, pacifier, reusable plastic toy-store dolls! Just pic- met. This representative is to be assigned diaper... even a navel bandage ture how thrilled your child will be an office in your plant equal in size and (where the umbilical cord was to dress, feed and learn to care degree of improvement to that of your "cut")! These adorable dolls are for his or her own life-like new- program director. dressed in their very first layette born baby! And at this truly fabu- outfit — a delicate sleeveless lous price, who could afford not to 6. A weapons-development-and-procurement top trimmed in blue or pink scal- order a boy and a girl — plus ex- inspection team from the New England loped lace. But best of all, the tras for gift-giving. Sub-District of the Weapons Procurement Branch will visit yourfacility fi-om August 1 through August 5 to ensure that these contract terms are being complied with.

By Order ofthe Commanding Officer Major Mollis Corby T2C-3 Weapons Systems Weapons Procurement Branch Headquarters, Colonial Army Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Continued Next Month

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Yes, you can maice $1000 a mat Do I Do? hours of work is selling for over fore I finally found the right

month and more with just a $228 in the stores. 1 can sell my design and measurements and I make beautiful indoor/out- chaise lounge for anything 1 tricks to the manufacturing of haclc saw in your spare time. door P.V.C. pipe furniture. think my labor is worth. For P.V.C. pipe furniture. I only Will You Get Rich? Such as chairs, lounges, tables, once, the big manufacturing wish that when I started, 1 could swings, and all kinds of No, you will not get rich, but baby companies cannot compete with have bought these shop drawings you can malce over $1000 a furniture out of P.V.C. pipe; me or you on prices. You will and 1 would have gladly paid for 10 years. month in your spare time and and have been find you will have more orders $100 for just one of them. P.V.C. pipe furniture is the hot- have a ball doing it. than you want! test selling furniture on the mar- / will I tried all those "Get Rich" pay you! gimmicks that are advertised, ket today, because it is unique Where can you buy the P. V. C. Yes, 1 will pay you $25 for any and beautiful and will not rot or that never tell you anything Pipe? unique design shop drawing it will virtually until you've sent them your $25, rust and last a life You can buy the P.V.C. pipe that I can use in my collection time. and then you find out their from any local hardware store to and workshop manual. gimmicks were not for you. Profit Unbelievable! start. Plus 1 will supply you with How do you start? Well, I've tried them all and I'm The fantastic part of this busi- the name and address of one of still 1) Decide if you like to work not rich. the largest manufacturers of pipe, ness is the profit. with to create things All I ever wanted was some- fittmg, cushions, and table tops your hands and want to make money. thing I could do in my spare time who will sell to you at wholesale with my hands, make a little prices and you do not have to buy 2) Can you afford $12.00 for

money and enjoy myself and not a minimum amount, plus I will my shop manual and twenty have to buy $3000 worth of tools supply you with my shop manual drawings.

or merchandise to do it. and twenty detailed shop draw- 3) Send me your name and ings with pictures and measure- Believe It Or Not address along with your check ments of twenty different designs. for $12.00 to: I found the most enjoyable and profitable business working Just go look at some of this Do you need my shop drawings Philip E. Brancato Sr. with my hands and the only furniture in the stores and see No, you don't need my shop P.O. Box 237AL11 Riverview, Florida 33569 tools I use are a hack saw and some of the unbelievable prices drawings unless you want to save (813) 677-6948 measuring tape. The really nice it is selling for. hundreds of hours of trial and

thing about it is any man, A chaise lounge that costs error work and thousands of Please allow about two weeks

woman or ten-year-old can do it. $62.25 in material and three dollars that I had to spend be- for delivery. . .

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USS Koiner DE 331 (Aug-Burlington, VT) Harold ^^^^ McCrabb, 435 Greenwich St., Reading, PA 19601 (215) 374-0489 USS LCI (L) 743 (Aug-Kansas City, MO) Francis Gripe, 2534 Kessler Blvd., Lincoln, NE 68502 (402) 423-6544 USS LCT 1 34-578 (Sept-Spokane, WA) Dorothy Akins, Gardeners Box 64, Albion, WA 99102 (509) 332-4831 USS LCT 24 (Sept-Annapolis, MD) Steve Frost, Box 28, Billings, MT 59103 (406) 245-7775 USS LSM 266 (Sept-Nashville, TN) G. Edward Metcalf, 2015 Airfield Ln., Midland, Ml 48640 (517) 835-3966 At last! ^ USS LST1061 (Aug-San Francisco) Marvin Jennings, Rt. 3, Box N408, Napoleon, OH 43545 (419) 256-6062 USS LST 398 (May-Omaha, NE) Frank Sawyer, 831 E. 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Army Air Forces

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