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GENTS JEANS
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BETTER
THAN DENIM...
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because they
are soft, easy-to-
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happen to men's
to Fit • Deep handy slash pockets
real
big cargo patch pockets in back •
fifth watch pocket of course • Solid brass zipper and
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• Some domestic, some imported, ALL Top Quality!
Full
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front •
in
A
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Don't let the
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Pairs
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us show you the best looking,
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*BIG MEN'S WAISTS: add s2 per pair 46 48 50 52 54
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for top grain leather belt.
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PRICE OF BELTS
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AMAZING NEW MEDICALLY APPROVED BANDAGE ELIMINATES PAIN AND
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SPORTS INJURIES
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WITHIN DAYS.
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at last
medical stories of
told
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of the
for the benefit of those
from
needlessly
pain
who
and
suffer
physical
discomfort. In the 1960s medical scientists
discovered that the application of an
electrical "field" to painful areas of the body
actually resulted in decrease or elimination
of pain.
Using this information, Dr. W. Seuss of
West Germany designed a series of
bandages contoured to various body parts
in which the synthetic foam interior was
exposed to polarized electricity. The
inventor patented the process under the
name of MEDIPOLAN Bandages.
The bandages were then
clinically
How MEDIPOLAN
most fascinating
the 20th century can be
one
tested
under controlled scientific
who reported an
amazing success rate.
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conditions by physicians
absolutely
for the first time in the U.S.
SPACE-AGE FABRIC
MEDIPOLAN Bandage
a lightweight,
material
containing a thin foam center with a built-in,
permanent electrostatic field activated by
contact with the skin. There are
batteries or wires, and the bandage is
COMPLETELY safe - with
side effects
as in the case of many medications.
Test results show that easing of pain is
obtained within an average of 12 hours after
application of the bandage. Physicians
report that "the bandages are pleasant to
wear, fit well, and are much more hygienic
is
contour-shaped synthetic cloth
NO
NO
than other remedies since they are
washable." Bandages are adjustable to fit
any size. Average weight of bandages is less
than 3 ounces.
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FOOT
GLOVE
BACK
NECK
SHOULDER
ELBOW
HIP
DOUBLE SHOULDER
to
fit
KNEE
BACK
ELBOW
NECK
FOOT
GLOVE
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are
that part of the
per-
body
where pain is felt. You apply the correct
bandage, which remains in place without
slipping or irritation. The electrical "field"
goes to work at once, reducing the
sensitivity of nerve endings and thus
decreasing and eliminating pain.
This miracle is accomplished NOT by
heat but by the amazing effect of an
"field" on the human body.
electrical
Inflammation disappears, pain iseliminated
and the affected area is useful again. And
this results within days or even hours!
all
m
Continue Your Routine
Wear the bandage while at work, play,
leisure or sleeping. The electrical "field"
remains constant and cannot be destroyed
by washing. When pain disappears,
discontinue the bandage. Use it again for
some future problem - it will still work!
You carry your own medical equipment
treatment with you wherever you are - right
on the area that is paining you. Bandage is
form-fitting and is virtually unnoticeable
under clothing.
Now you can replace expensive
medicinal and physical treatments with a
simple, tested bandage that can be worn
comfortably for hours, so that you can
reduce your medicinal dosage and its side
effects. Excellent for thermal comfort too!
SHOULDER
HIP
MEDIPOLAN
decreases pain. ..relaxes
hardened muscle system. ..reduces inflammation. ..increases blood circulation...
reduces spasms. ..decreases need for
medication. ..permits mobility and activity.
health insurance provider may
reimburse you for this health appliance.
Your
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OR USE OUR TOLL-FREE NUMBER
Why
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relief in just a few days-or even
MEDIPOLAN
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LIGAMENT DISORDERS. ..TENDON and
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MEDIPOLAN Bandages
manently shaped
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FOR EVEN QUICKER PAIN RELIEF,
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AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE
The Magazine
Vol. 126, No.
DO WE HAVE THE WILL TO PREVAIL?
No nation is wise enough to lead the free world,
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for
a Strong America
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THE DRUG WAR TURNS GLODAL
"God help us,
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if we lost this battle.
THE CUDAN DRUG CONNECTION
Castro
is
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MAN'S ASSAULT ON NATURE
The acid rain debate provokes "regional trench warfare" in Congress.
BATTLE REPORT: HEROES OF THE HIGH SEAS
Marked men in thankless jobs, WWII merchant seamen
IS
Sites
24
By John Hanly Adams
26
By James N.
measured up each time they shipped out.
OUR TAX SYSTEM FAIR?
"The just man will pay more and the unjust less.
LEGION FIRES BACK AT CRITICS OF VIETNAM VETERANS' STUDY
The Centersfor Disease Control has a vested interest in disproving the Legior Study,
says Nat'l Cmdr. H.F. "Sparky" Gierke.
30
RECRUITING THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY
Top Legion recruiters reveal how they get new members.
40
VETS CALL IT HOME
42
Pennsylvania Legionnaires provide a new beginningfor homeless veterans.
DEPARTME NTS
BIG ISSUES
10
Should Congress Repeal The Catastrophic Coverage Act?
LETTERS
4
YOUR AMERICAN LEGION 14
VETERANS ALERT
36
COMMANDER'S MESSAGE
6
VETERANS UPDATE
PARTING SHOTS
64
DATELINE
8
COVER Castro's drug connection. Illustration by William V.
The American Legion Magazine.
35
Cigliano created exclusively for
American Legion Magazine, a leader among national general-interest publications, is published
monthly by The American Legion for its 2.9 million members. These military-service veterans, working
through 16,000 community-level posts, dedicate themselves to God and country and traditional American values; strong national security; adequate and compassionate care for veterans, their widows
and orphans; community service; and the wholesome development of our nation's youths.
The
APRIL 1989
3
LETTERS
REVOLUTIONARY
NEW
TRIMMER/
MOWER
Rolls
and
Soviet Beachhead
Col. Lawrence L. Tracy's article on
Nicaragua and Central America. Guaranteeing a Soviet Beachhead (January),
smooth
EASY
BIG
highly commended. When Lt. Col.
Oliver North tried to divert funds in the
Iran-Contra affair, he was only trying to
WHEELS!
do what Congress refused
is
on two
to
do-
appropriate funds for the beleaguered
Contras. The huge volume of mail
received by this great patriot left no
doubt how the American people feel
about him. Now Congress is trying to
punish North in court for his efforts to
halt the spread of communism in
Nicaragua and Central America. It
looks like we have already guaranteed a
Soviet beachhead in Central America.
N. G. Nyerges
Santa Monica, Calif.
The
EASY
WAY!
TRIMS
better,
more
held trimmers. Plus,
thing from
far easier,
precisely than hand-
MOWS
Killed By A Pound
every-
enjoyed your article Greenhouse
Are We Poisoning Ourselves?
(December). But the sidebar "Nuclear
Energy: Clean and Safe, " reads like an
advertisement from the power utilities.
Nuclear power has consistently proven
to be more expensive than almost any
other energy source, and more danger-
whole lawns (even WET!)
I
Effect:
to tough waist-high growth with
incredible ease! Rocks, roots,
no harm because
stumps, etc. do
the DR has NO STEEL BLADES to
it
bend or dull. Perfect for finish up
mowing AND trimming after riding
mowers. ..or, for ALL mowing and
ous to the environment.
Half the plutonium produced from
nuclear plants will be radioactive in the
year 26289. Half the unspent uranium
will be radioactive in the year
700001989. Maybe we don't care
about the health of people in that distant
future, but what about 100 years from
now, or 50? Can we be sure no nuclear
wastes will escape into the environ-
trimming around smaller properties,
vacation homes,
etc.
WHY
So,
HASSLE
Any Longer
With Hand-held
Trimmers OR
Small-Wheeled
Mowers
Please
Like
send
no-obligation
Revolutionary
DR™
for
nium
complete,
details
Earth,
the
of
DR™ TRIMMER/MOWER
Models and Off-Season Savings now
in effect,
Unfair Congress
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g
Address
City
ZIP
To: COUNTRY HOME PRODUCTS
Dept.A4904, Box 89, Cedar Beach Road 0
|_Charlotte, Vermont 05445 ]802]425 2196j
1
65. This
tax
is
a surtax starting at 15 per-
cent more than the normal tax, but
could eventually go to 28 percent.
In the Washington Post of Jan. 12,
Sen. Lloyd Bentsen was quoted as saying that complaints are heard from only
a few of the wealthy retired people. We
are not wealthy just because we retired
after working longer than 30 years to
finance a college education for our
children and to put aside more for our
family's future instead of spending it
all. Now we face a penalty in higher
taxes than our contemporaries who
made the opposite choice. We must pay
the additional tax for catastrophic care
whether or not we want
it
or need
it.
unprecedented that a federal
program requires financing by only the
segment of the population affected.
It is
Farm subsidies, student loans, AIDS
research, food stamps and disaster
relief are all paid for out of general
funds, but benefit only certain segments of the population.
This is not fair to those of us who
fought for our country in World War II
and supported it financially throughout
our working lives.
Clay J. Ritter
Fairfax, Va.
School Violence
Certainly a nexus exists between the
lack of moral education and the alarming crime, violence and disorder in the
schools as described in Violence In Our
Schools, (February). Consequently, if
our schools are to achieve true progress
—that
is,
moral and
spiritual as well as
—
our families,
intellectual progress
churches, schools, the business community and social organizations
(e.g.,
Scouts, Girl Scouts, YWCA), once
again must emphasize the teaching and
learning of moral values, such as cour-
and kindness, honesty and decency,
harmony, integrity, moral courage,
The Congress and the administration
need to change the way they set priorities on taxpayer funds. We are told that
tesy
of the Congress and highlevel government employees need a
50 percent pay raise to maintain purchasing power. On the other hand,
retirees, with only a fraction of the
income of those people, need only
4 percent. Additionally, the cost of cata-
others.
members
I
State
us.
new
be imposed only on those over age
Boy
rush complete details about
the Revolutionary
among
Robin Green
Ohio
Name
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evenly distributed
Bellefontaine,
induding prices of Manual and Electric Starting m
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2-Machines-in
Trimmer/Mower TODAY!
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ment? One pound of radioactive plutois enough to wipe out everyone on
Th
strophic health care requires a
to
racial
and respect for
By so doing, we can help create
fair play, self-respect
a moral, social and educational climate
conducive to teaching and learning
such basics as reading, writing and
arithmetic.
Haven Bradford Gow
Arlington Heights,
III.
;
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Enjoy all the privileges and VIP treatment normally
given only to Las Vegas 'high rollers' with this virtually
'Best
WUi"
lou'll be glad you waited
to
plan a fun-filled dream
vacation to Las Vegas.
With tens of thousands
of plush rooms to fill
and casinos now legal
in the east. Las Vegas
has
to
be more
Now
competitive.
enjoy an exciting
three-day, two-night
VIP vacation at famous
Vegas World Hotel
g
and Casino on the
Jm
mm
fabulous "Strip."
You
will rece/'t
over $1000 in
casino action
upon arrival as -t
explained below.
BENEFITS PER COUPLE
•
A deluxe room
for two for 3 days and 2 nights at
Vegas World Hotel and Casino, which offers every
amenity, including individually controlled air conditioning, direct dial telephones and color television.
f«$
$ 1000.00
•
—
T,0N
400 one dollar chips to gamS400 LIVE ACTION
ble with as you wish. Each chip is good for ONE
PLAY, (win or lose), on all even money bets for any
table
game
(craps, blackjack, roulette, etc.). That's
to win, and you may wager from one
400 chances
•
to as
many chips
$400
in dollar slot
as you
like
machine
on each wager.
(Good on
action.
all
dollar carousels.)
•
•
•
•
•
$200 in your choice of Table Action chips or dollar
slot machine action as outlined above.
FREE FINE GIFT from among five shown here.
4 Keno plays. Win up to $12,500.00 each.
GUARANTEED WINNER on first slot bet. Win from
2 to 2000 coins, GUARANTEED.
SHOW RESERVATION SERVICE to all Las Vegas
shows
even the hard-to-get ones.
Tickets for two to TWO or more fabulous Las Vegas
shows to make your stay truly exciting.
UNLIMITED DRINKS of your choice (valid in all
Vegas World casino bars and lounges).
Two chances to win ONE MILLION DOLLARS in-
—
•
•
•
stantly
•
— world's largest jackpot.
FREE GAMBLING GUIDE to assist you in playing the
HOTEL
CASINO
various table games.
•
•
•
A pair of genuine Vegas World dice.
A deck of casino quality playing cards.
A souvenir photo of yourself with ONE MILLION
mm
• All
•
•
winnings paid
You receive
all
CASH. Keep what you
win.
of the above with no obligation to
in
14K
six
solid gold ring with
matching diamonds.
You'll stay at the
I
Real Slot Machine
plus $300
in
L—1^
I
quarters. Value: $1,395
famous Vegas World
i\
VMAs m womd
special Gift/Vacation
are extremely
limited.
25,
1989
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VEGAS WORLD
Mail to:
Hotel-Casino
Us Vegas Blvd. South, Us Vegas, NV 89104
Please read the "Privileges and Provisions"
If
you vacation mid-week
weekend crowds,
to
avoid
we'll give
you
a choice of an extra $100.00 in
Casino Action ($50.00 Slots/
$50.00 Table) OR an extra night's
accommodations absolutely
invitation
free.
now
by calling our toll free number or
out and mail the coupon. A
fill
redeemable reservation fee of
$198 per person is required. For
this fee, you will receive chips,
scrip and one of the valuable gifts
shown making your vacation virtually free.
I
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the most of your vacation and to
Accept your
Offer Expires
May
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opportunity.
Dept. VC, 2000
Hotel-Casino on the fabulous "Strip."
Featured twice on "60 Minutes," the Merv Griffin
Show and Ripley's Believe It Or Not. Enjoy action,
entertainment, excitement and resort accommodations virtually free as
part of the VIP package.
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Reservations for tjiis
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Value: $285
gamble with any of your own money.
No additional charges of any kind.
^%
wish to take advantage of your Las Vegas VIP Vacation/Gift
have enclosed my reservation fee (check or
money order) for $396 for two people. understand have
until December 28, 1990 to take my vacation, and that during my stay,
will receive all of the benefits listed. Limit one gift per couple. (Please make
check payable to: Vegas World Vacation Club.)
m
If
DOLLARS CASH.
Charge my
Acct.
Visa
know
of
your invitation thoroughly to
MasterCard
Discover
No
American Express
Exp. Date
Name
Address
_State_
City
-Zip-
Phone
I
wish to
make my
reservation for the following arrival date:
,19l
will
make my
reservation at a later date.
Signature
OFFER EXPIRES MAY
make
exactly what you're entitled to receive.
25, 1989
C7284
Commander's message
FOUR GOLDEN LINKS
BIND OUR COMMITMENT
TO CHILDREN AND YOUTHS
WE
celebrate The
S
American Legion's Children and Youth Month, I
am reminded of a telling
of sound body,
incident that happened
years ago, which illustrates the value of our
programs.
America
was
still
pulling itself together from the aftermath of World War I, when Sam Carson,
succumbed to tuberculosis.
widow and three children.
Carson owned a small frame house
left
service officer.
He presented her case to
the department child welfare chairman,
who forwarded
Division
at
it
to the Child Welfare
National Headquarters.
Then things began to happen. First
she received a check. In emergencies
such as this, the Child Welfare Division
wasted no time. Once the case had been
referred to the division by the local post,
the division took immediate action
even as the investigation proceeded.
Both the post and the Child Welfare
Division thought Sam's illness was
war service, so the division
forwarded the case to the Legion's
National Rehabilitation Committee in
Washington, DC, a pipeline to the VA.
In the meantime, the Child Welfare
Division didn't ask Mrs. Carson and her
linked to his
6
Since the days of the Carson family,
a
he bought after the war. For several
years after her husband's death, Mrs.
Carson earned a living for herself and
the children by taking in washing and
ironing, hiring herself out for house
cleaning, and by renting a room to a
relative. It was a happy home with
enough of everything if she didn't look
more than a day ahead.
Then hard times hit. She lost her
washing, ironing and cleaning jobs and
the relative moved. Mrs. Carson and
her children were in dire straits.
Sam had been a loyal Legionnaire,
and she knew the post helped people in
distress, not as charity, but as friend
helping friend, so she saw the post
character.
community members.
a veteran,
He
mind and
Their chances for development have
markedly improved through programs
such as President Bush's "thousand
points of light"— a grass-roots revival
of citizen concern for the future of
young people; and through our own
points of light— 3 million Legionnaires
at 16,000 posts passing on to youths the
values and ideals that contribute
directly to their growth as productive
The American Legion and its Auxiliary
has invested more than $586 million in
programs designed to develop our
youths into productive citizens. These
Nat' I. Cmdr. H.
F.
"Sparky" Gierke
children to exist on hope after the
first
check was gone.
It granted financial
assistance for four mouths. It sent a
fifth check, too, but it was returned.
Sam's compensation claim had been
allowed the VA said his death was
—
service-connected.
Mrs.
Carson
received a check and notice that she
would receive a monthly compensation. As suddenly as they had lost it, the
Carsons regained
their prospects for a
decent future.
Four golden links of fellowship
pulled Mrs. Carson and her three chil-
dren from the brink of destitution: the
post, the department, the National
Headquarters and its Washington
office. This was an early and successful
example of the impressive machinery
the Legion used to ensure the health
and welfare of the widows and orphans
of our nation's veterans.
Today, we need only to look at this
example and our own neighborhoods to
grasp the basis of our founders' decision that America's young people must
have every reasonable chance to
develop through normal, healthy years
into good, all around American citizens
programs have been expanded and
refined continually to meet the
demands of changing times.
For example, to help youths fight the
twin temptations of drugs and alcohol,
the Legion is encouraging high schools
to participate in the TARGET Interactive Project. Using computer science,
TIP has been introduced in classrooms
to help students combat peer pressures
and make their own responsible
choices.
Another key program is Boys State/
where annually in 50 states
and the District of Columbia more than
28,000 youths participate in hands-on
training in the structure, ideals and
objectives of American government.
For many, this is followed by Boys
Girls State,
Nation/Girls Nation, a graduate school
of citizenship held in the nation's
capital.
Then
ball.
there
American Legion Basesaid about a
each year grooms 76,000
is
What more can be
program that
youths in such qualities as self-discipline, fair play and the will to succeed?
More than
half of major-league base-
ball players got their start in this vital
program. The baseball diamonds have
long been the training grounds for
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Warsaw Pact conventional forces are stronger than NATO's, and express concern
out in the cold. They also say that the
on 52 known
terrorist
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that the Soviet military could return to
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its
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Hezbollah of the Islamic jihad, which is intent on
establishing a Shiite Islamic state in Lebanon. The group
specializes in suicide truck bombings and kidnapping.
Sponsored by Iran, Hezbollah is blamed for the death of 241
U.S. Marines and 58 French soldiers in 1983.
Led by Abu Nidal, with headquarters in Libya, the band of
500 followers is considered by some military intelligence
experts to be the most lethal of all. A splinter group from the
PLO, Hezbollah strikes out not only against Israelis, but also
against citizens of other countries in indiscriminate machinegun attacks, bombings and highjackings, according to the
Department of Defense report.
In addition to Libya and Iran, the guide identifies Syria,
Afghanistan, Cuba, South Yemen, North Korea and
Nicaragua as patrons of the terrorists.
Profiles is
Dropping Our Guard
The House Committee on
Intelligence gives
good marks to
U.S. defense and intelligence agencies for electronic coun-
termeasures, surveillance and physical security. However,
committee finds personnel and information-security
programs suffer at the working level and there is a lack of
the
commitment at the management level.
The report, prepared by the Subcommittee on Oversight
and Evaluation, noted that the 985 "Year of the Spy" —when
a rash of espionage cases were uncovered — spurred initial
improvements in U.S. counterintelligence. But the
momentum has been lost in the area of personnel security.
"This is especially bothersome," the report said, "inas-
The Paper Chase
There's no end to the argument about the quality of our
nation's educational system, but the fact
is
that
more
stu-
dents today are graduating from both high school and college
than ever before.
The Census Bureau recently reported that 76 percent of
Americans 25 or older had completed four years of high
school in 1987, the highest level in our history.
The survey also revealed that 20 percent of the same adult
age group had completed at least four years of college,
doubling the figure of one generation ago.
Gene Counting
U.S. scientists already have initiated the first steps in
counting and identifying more than 100,000 genes that
control and direct all functions of the human body, but it will
take an estimated 15 years of dedicated research at a cost of
some $3 billion.
About 1 ,500 genes have been identified to date, and many
scientists believe that unfolding the mysteries of genes will
provide us with new weapons to prevent and cure disease.
Congress has been asked to approve $ 100 million more for
the next stage of the
Human Genome Initiative,
as the project
1
much
as virtually
all
known espionage
losses in the United
States in recent years have been a result of
human weak-
is
called.
Non-nuclear Threat
The American media have shed considerable light on the
spread of toxic chemical manufacturing in smaller countries
nesses and not as a result of technical or physical penetra-
of the world, but
tions of sensitive facilities."
peril of
Withdrawing From Europe
For more than a decade the status of U.S. troops in
Europe has been a recurring issue in Congress. The subject
has surfaced again, as Congress desperately seeks ways to
trim the budget. Proponents of a U.S. troop withdrawal from
Europe point to the thaw in the cold war between the United
States and the USSR as justification for bringing troops
home.
The United States currently funds more than 65 percent of
NATO's annual budget of $450 billion, and many members
of Congress are seeking other NATO countries to assume
their fair share of the burden.
Opponents of the American withdrawal
move
are concerned that
breakup of NATO, which has held
40 years. They argue
that such action might force European nations to seek an
the
will lead to the
the line against the Soviets for the past
8
little attention has been given to the potent
non-nuclear missiles until the recent flap in Libya.
These conventional weapons, considered obsolete by the
superpowers, have become increasingly sophisticated,
longer-ranged and easier to purchase or make, according to a
State
Department estimate.
were used by both
and Saudi Arabia is known to have
acquired Chinese missiles with a potential range of 1,500
miles. Other countries are building ballistic armories.
"The worst nightmare of all," said former Secretary of
State George P. Schulz, "would be the eventual combination
of ballistic missiles and chemical warheads in the hands of
governments with terrorist histories."
Soviet-built surface-to-surface missiles
sides in the Iran-Iraq War,
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am a firm believer that Americans are proud to pay taxes,
but I
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Sen. William V. Roth, Delaware
Wanted: Men's OldWatches
Your unwanted man's wristwatch could be worth hundreds of dollars!
Now
that
most new watches have quartz movements, a
market has developed for the older
collector's
mechanical ones.
We're one of the country's leading buyers of these older
wristwatches.
it
If
you have one, why not consider
selling
to us.
Of course, the amount we can pay
for your
watch
depend on the many factors mentioned below
including age, rarity, maker and condition.
will
—
Three Patek Phillipe watches
c.
1940 depicting standard,
long and unusual rectangles.
WE'RE LOOKING FOR
THESE MAKERS
Patek Phillipe, Vacheron
stanta, Carder,
and Rolex
Movado,
OTHER FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW
&
Con-
Audemars Piguet
Piaget, Gubelin, Tiffany,
are very desirable.
buy unusual Hamilton's
like the
ones shown here, and
tinctly
if
long and dis-
unusual rectangles are
c.
best.
If
you think you might want
estate
of the
first
Because we
we can pay you
to sell
your watch, please
Please don't send watches without contacting us
Ask
COMPLICATED WATCHES ARE ESPECIALLY
DESIRABLE
—
and
And we were one
call
or write for an evaluation and shipping instructions.
always interesting.
Chronographs
largest buyers of antique
have developed a strong market for them,
Oddly shaped watches are
I960
one of the
the best price.
round ones. Very long or
Bottom: Hamilton Electric
women's
US!
to recognize the value in old wristwatches.
watches bring more than
1945
wristwatches. Only
Patek Phillipe, and Vacheron
jewelry in the country.
Square and rectangular
c.
Cartier, Tiffany,
SEND YOUR WATCH TO
curved.
re
Back
to us.
we do not buy women's
Generally,
watches by
SHAPE AFFECTS PRICE
Top: Rolex Bubble
before I960 are best. Timex and
no value
& Constanta are of interest to us.
also
Gruen Curvex's
made
Men's watches
Caravelle watches have
are the rarest.
Le Coultre, and Universal Geneve
We
watches need not be running. Pink gold watches are sought
after.
for the
Lady's unusual ruby
watch, Retro
first.
Wristwatch Department.
and diamond
Modern
style c.
1940
Interesting Hamilton of unusual shape
with enameled bezel, Art
Deco
c.
1930
stopwatches indicated by extra
small dials on the face and two buttons on
each side of the winding stem.
Calendars
windows
—
sometimes
Repeaters
Other
watch
c.
tors'
display day,
moon
—
month, date and
phases.
very rare watches that chime the
Look for a small
time.
Hamilton Doctors
watches with additional dials or
that
— Time
sliding lever
on
zone, skeleton dial,
the side.
and doc-
Left to right:
Chronograph, Skeleton
Dial,
Calendar with Moonphase.
watches are desirable.
1940
SOLID GOLD AND PLATINUM WATCHES ARE THE
MOST SOUGHT AFTER
CHAPTjERIIOlÊ, & CO.
Estate Jewelers
& Antiquarians
Usually watches must be 14 karat gold, 18 karat gold or plati-
num to
A
be of interest.
solid gold
dial
or platinum bracelet adds value. Diamonds on the
or case increase the price.
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SHOULD CONGRESS REPEAL
THE CATASTROPHIC
COVERAGE ACT?
Rep. Harris W. Fawell, R-lllinois
The problem with the
Medicare Catastrophic
Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas
NO
YESfi
Coverage Act is not that it
will be financed by senior citizens, but I
what it finances and how the self-
died in 1978 after 10 years of heart problems. During his illness she worked as a
financing works.
sales clerk to pay the bills.
About 80 percent of seniors who
already are covered for the new benefits
ft
through private and employer-provided
retirement health insurance, or Medicaid, say they believe
that the greatest need is not for expanded acute-care insurance, but for protection against the devastating costs of long-
term custodial nursing-home care. Such insurance is virtually non existent, inaccessible for most American families
and unavailable under Medicare.
Under CAT. a new tax surcharge is placed on those seniors
who pay income taxes to underwrite about two-thirds of the
additional costs. Many seniors wonder why this mandatory
insurance program cannot provide benefits they need.
They
are correct in pointing out that
who
it
is
not just their
expansion of Medicare. Indeed, the law also hurts the middle-income seniors
who have planned and saved for their "golden years" to avoid
sole reliance on Social Security.
Almost half of all seniors will pay the surtax. For example, consider the cases of two senior couples: One has a
taxable joint income of $10,500, and the other has
$25,000 hardly "wealthy" couples by any definition. In
1993, the first couple will pay about $441 in extra taxes,
while their friends will pay about $1 ,030. Each couple will
also pay about $1 ,050 in Medicare premiums, in addition to
private supplemental insurance premiums, for which there
will always be a need.
Financing the new benefits with a tax on taxes guarantees
"wealthy" peers
will
pay for
this
—
Then in 1982, at the age of 64, she had
quadruple by-pass operation that cost
$26,000. The illness drained her savings
and kept her from working. The Social Security she now
subsists on cannot pay her bills. She says her children sometimes help, but she often has to cut back on food and other
necessities. This woman has worked hard her whole life and
planned for her retirement. Then, a medical catastrophe
destroyed her plans and her dreams.
Hers is not an isolated story. Many older Americans have
faced catastrophic illnesses that financially ruined them and
their families. Many more fear they may be next. Recognizing that fear. Congress approved the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act last year to protect older or disabled
American Medicare beneficiaries from this risk of financial
a
devastation.
The Catastrophic Coverage Act sets a ceiling on the out-ofpocket expenses for physician services, requires that only
one hospital deductible be paid per year— compared to six
deductibles a year under the old Medicare
and covers the
entire costs of a hospital stay, no matter how long. In addition, the act pays for twice as many days of home health
services, and a program to pay for 80 percent of prescription
drug costs will be phased in by 1993.
Both the former President and Congress said those who
benefit from the coverage should pay for most of it.
The premiums are structured so those with higher
incomes pay more. However, more than 60 percent of all
participants will pay only $4 per month in 1989.
The Congressional Budget Office said that 7 percent of
those covered by the new catastrophic insurance will face a
potentially catastrophic illness each year. We're grateful that
figure is not higher, but it is still a high insurance risk. Less
than half of 1 percent of the homes in this country will catch
fire each year, yet we all carry fire insurance because either
—
for these taxpayers whenever tax
This violates every promise Congress
made in passing the 1986 Tax Reform Act, when many tax
deductions were exchanged for lower tax rates and pledges
not to undo the effect of reform by increasing the rates.
If Congress hopes to provide governmental assistance with
custodial long-term care costs, the first step is to repeal CAT and
establish a non-partisan
commission to offer suggesOPINION COUNTS,
tions for reforming the MediSenators and congressmen are interested in constituent viewcare program and providing
points. You may express your views by writing The Honorable (name),
long-term care. These are
U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510, or The Honorable (name),
the central components of
U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. 20515.
my bill, H.R. 169.
a
permanent double-hit
liability increases.
YOUR
10
Not long ago, I received a
letter from a Fort Worth
woman whose husband
TOO
we
are prudent or the mort-
gage company requires it.
The Catastrophic Care Act
corrects a longstanding flaw
in
Medicare.
It
protects older
Americans from the
financial
ruin of a prolonged illness.
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Soviets' bread comes from Iowa;
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By Dr. Ernest W. Lefever
The
OLUMNIST George
the Silicon Valley in California,
Will
made
who are
is
once said that Washington,
D.C., is a small town on
Potomac that is "surrounded by reality." In a
work
we who
live
or
inside the beltway
the
that
is all
the
— faces
— indeed,
the
Can
a great crisis
America
more dangerous because
recognize it.
Today, two world empires, two ways
of organizing society, are vying for
CON JOB — Many Westerners seem
eager to accept Gorbachev's promises, but words must never be con-
ascendancy. One is the Soviet empire,
which, despite the reforms promised by
Mikhail Gorbachev, is still a rigid, ruthless, one-party power that denies full
fused with actions.
tors. Further,
human
and
Soviet troops by 500,000, to withdraw
self-determination to the captive states
from Eastern Europe,
to deploy his forces defensively, and to
of chemical
destroy
stockpiles
weapons.
its
own
citizens
Eastern Europe.
The other empire
in
is the free-world
coalition led by the United States.
Americans enjoy the full range of liberty and our government does not seek
mastery over other peoples.
Many Europeans and some Americans have been unduly impressed by
Gorbachev's peace moves. True, as we
went to press, he began to pull his stalemated troops out of Afghanistan, he
facilitated the withdrawal of Cuban
troops from Angola, and perhaps most
remarkable, he is destroying SS-20
missiles in the presence of U.S. inspec-
Dr. Ernest W. Lefever is the founding president of the Washington, D.C. -based Ethics
and Public Policy Center and the co-editor
of Perestroika:
How New Is Gorbachev's
New Thinking? published by
12
the center.
West
to
pursue peace through
NATO
feel obligated to
make lopsided concessions to accommodate the new Soviet stance?
only a few of our political, intellectual,
business and religious leaders fully
rights to
too eager to trade with the
strength? Will
the country or the larger world.
But today, this nation
it
What about Gorbachev's motives? Is
he engaged in a peace offensive
designed to drive a wedge between the
United States and its allies? Will his
more-benign posture weaken the will of
are provincial, and often
occupied with gossip,
short-range issues and petty crises that
are of little consequence to the rest of
entire free world
all
where
some Americans
totalitarians.
the
real sense,
available by
he has promised to reduce
six tank divisions
democratic,
permissive
prevail against a determined,
disciplined superpower? The jury is
still out on this fundamental question,
but consider some of our weaknesses.
• Americans have not yet shaken off
the self-doubt and confusion that followed the Vietnam War. This lack of
clarity and confidence is evident in our
unwillingness to develop adequate
nuclear and conventional military
strength to deter the USSR on every
level.
•
Americans are
reluctant to recog-
nize the vital need for gathering intelli-
gence and carrying out covert activities
abroad, and for maintaining secrecy in
sensitive security operations.
we should
not confuse words
BUT
with deeds, or accept the rhetoric of
peace for the disciplines of peace
and freedom. We should recognize that
what the Soviets promise may not be
fulfilled. And we do not know how long
Gorbachev will last. We should maintain a healthy skepticism.
if all Gorbachev's unilateral
moves were carried out. Soviet
conventional forces would still enjoy a
substantial superiority over U.S. and
Even
military
NATO forces
in
Europe.
Soviet propaganda
apparatus seeks to divide Americans.
Moscow is buying Midwestern corn
and wheat at bargain prices, and buying
While
the
•
These problems are compounded
by persistent irresponsibility in the U.S.
Congress, aided and abetted by a press
that is more free than responsible. To a
disquieting extent, the mass media
reflect a sickness that Jeane Kirkpatrick
referred to as the "blame-Americafirst" mentality.
•
Finally,
on the deepest level, our
coming to grips with the
deficiencies in
totalitarian challenge reflect a
profound
mainstream religious leadership in America. This is a great irony.
The people of any country should be
failure in
able to look to their spiritual leaders as
the custodians and renewers of funda-
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HENEVER he reflects
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participation in the American Legion's
High School Oratorical Contest.
"It was a rewarding and unforgettable experience," said Bennett, who
was the Legion's Kansas champion in
1945. "It definitely played a role in my
subsequent political life and I'm proud
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ticipating in the oratorical contest
way
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TOP SPEAKER— Last year's
motes understanding of the U.S. Constitution. Like many Legion programs
champion,
national
Dilip Paliath, was sponsored by Parkville (Md.) Post 183.
the Constitution."
Participants in the contest such as
Bennett, have gone on to find success
both in their personal and professional
lives. Said the Rev. David Marth, a
Lutheran minister and 1964 national
champion: "The contest gave me the
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14
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stretched and
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attend college.
my
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of
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this opportunity."
my
parents," said William L. Kephart,
1982 national champion, who used his
money to attend the
Univer-
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at
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COMPETITION
positive results
Americanism Commission, which oversees the contest. "Foremost, young
men and women learn and experience
their rights and responsibilities under
and the scholbeen
for winners have
alleviated the financial strain on
origin of the oratorical contest
emanate
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million,
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that have flourished over the years, the
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increased to keep pace with tuition fees.
Currently, national winners receive
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ships through the program, which pro-
began
at post level. In 1934, Legionnaire
William Kitchen of Kansas City, Mo.,
developed the competition for local
high-school students. By 1938, The
American Legion adopted it as a
national program, with more than
4,000 students competing the first year.
is
college scholarships. Since its inception, the national contest has awarded
For more than a half century,
thousands of other students like Bennett have spoken out for democracy and
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—
and it must be delivered
without notes. Finally, the participant is
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five-minute extemporaneous response.
The most tangible reward of parminutes
on the hundreds of
public speeches he
level
begins
at the local
and winners advance
to
regional and sectional showdowns.
The
final competition is held each April
during the Legion's designated Children and Youth month. At press time,
contestants were preparing for the April
14 finals at Lincoln, Neb.
Topics of the speeches are selected
by the participants, but must address
some
Yet, while the oratorical contest con-
tinues to
grow and has become a signifimany Legion posts,
cant activity for
there are
still
many
students
who
are
"The American Legion
has an excellent program going," said
1988 champion Dilip Paliath. "The
only problem is there are some people
who don't know about it. I hope this
unaware of
changes
it.
in the future."
issue tied to the Constitution. In
recent years, for example, students'
speeches have dealt with the constitutional aspects of the Iran-Contra issue.
A contestant's oration cannot be less
than eight minutes nor can it exceed 10
For more information on the High
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Mankind is witnessing a groundswell of internctionol
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global scourges of drug trafficking and addiction.
RITICS of U.S.
is
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nations for the worldwide drug
efforts
able
war on drugs claim
strategy in the
the United States
crisis.
They say U.S.
should be directed at eliminating the
demand
within our borders.
insati-
John Lawn, the
nation's chief drug law enforcement officer disagrees, contending that cutting off the supply is
the best attack.
still
Lawn, administrator of the Drug
Enforcement Administration, agrees, however, that
must share the blame. "If we want to point the
we should do it when we're shaving in the morning, " he
the United States
finger,
says, in this exclusive interview.
American Legion Magazine: Law
enforcement efforts
appear inadequate to stop the vast quantities of drugs that
flow across our borders. What more can we do to win this
war?
John Lawn:
I
don't believe
we can
say that law enforce-
ment resources are inadequate. Our resources have increased
by 60 percent over the past seven years, our own budget by
140 percent. However, we are inadequate in establishing a
national-defense mechanism, in mobilizing all citizens and
making them feel that they are part of the solution to this
problem. Law enforcement alone cannot deal with this drug
problem. Also, if we look at solving the problem within our
own borders, we are looking at the problem after it becomes
serious. That's too late. We prefer to take action at the
producing end.
Q-
What can we do in
A
In 1980, only
duction
marijuana.
16
that regard?
two countries were eradicating proof coca, heroin, opium poppies and
Now
26 nations are doing
so.
We
can continue
to support those countries
because they see now, where
they didn't five years ago, that
the drug
problem
their prob-
is
lem, too. In a drug conference
in Vienna in 1987, 133 countries made drugs a single
issue. A U.N. conference was
called solely on the issue of
drugs and international drug
trafficking.
So there
is
a
groundswell of international
support to do something about
this problem.
0. Will this lead to real
action by countries such as
Bolivia
and Colombia?
Yes. Several years ago
A
Bolivia
asked
sister
countries in Latin America to
They
help.
couldn't,
so
asked the United
States to provide logistical
Bolivia
support. We sent our military
helicopters to Bolivia for a
limited operation to show
them how they could work
effectively.
We left six helicop-
with them, and our agents
continue to work with Bolivian troops in destroying
ters
refineries in that country.
Q
a
We hear a lot about Col-
ombian drug lords
virtually
dictating terms to their government. Is that accurate?
A
Yes.
I
was
in
Bogota
recently and was
shocked to learn that several
who had heard a drug
case were warned by drug traf-
jurors
fickers that if they rendered a
would be
judge on another
case was approached by a major trafficker and told that if she
sentenced the trafficker, she and her whole family would be
killed. The problem we see in Colombia is that good citizens
must choose between what they call "silver or the lead" —
either accept money or death. Colombia is trying to deal with
the problem, and is still working very closely with us. It
recently seized and destroyed 500,000 opium poppy plants
north of Bogota, yet the government is taking heavy losses.
Drug traffickers have killed Colombia's minister of justice,
attorney general, 12 supreme court judges, 25 other judges
and 250 law enforcement officers.
guilty verdict, they
killed.
Qa
A
there any truth to charges that some of our key
have been bribed?
We have seen many cases where police officers, attora
neys and judges have been found to be involved with
drug traffickers in accepting payoffs. Many have been
Is
officials
A
APRIL 1989
LAWN: — "We manufacture enough drugs from chemicals
clandestine laboratories
entire drug population."
identified
in
and prosecuted, but the problem
long as there
is
so
in
the United States to satisfy our
much money
will continue as
involved in drug trafficking.
Q. Why can't military forces be thrown into this battle?
are in the battle. Our military has flown thousands
of hours using radar aircraft in support of law enforcement. The prohibition called "posse comitatus" prohibits the
military from making direct arrests, and I think that is a good
A
They
decision. But as far as logistical support is concerned,
of all of the thousands of requests for equipment that we asked
the military for last year, 96 percent of those requests were
honored. In one recent initiative where we worked with 30
17
THE
CUBAN
Last July, a federal court in
Miami
convicted five drug traffickers. The
conviction produced striking evidence
linking Cuba to the shadowy underworld of international drug smuggling.
The conviction itself involved only $10
million worth of cocaine, a tiny sum in
the lucrative narcotics business esti-
mated
at
between $60
The
billion
and $100
howand recorded
telephone conversations explicitly
billion annually.
real coup,
ever, lies in videotapes
detailing, step by step, the drug route
beginning from dirt airstrips in Colombia to military bases in Cuba and
United States.
finally to the
According to officials of the Drug
Enforcement Administration, the tapes
revealed that airplanes fly from secret
Colombia
airstrips in
Cuban
to Varadero, a
where tons of
cocaine are unloaded, repackaged and
transferred onto boats destined for
Florida. U.S. intelligence agents had
named Varadero as a "let-down" stop
for smugglers in 1984. Cuban-piloted
Soviet MiGs escort the Colombian
planes to the base where Cuban officials supervise the transfers. Feeder
boats are escorted out to sea by the
Cuban Coast Guard and alerted on the
whereabouts of U.S. drug-interceptor
military airbase
vessels.
of the smugglers
shown on a
ONE
videotape bragging, "The money
is
went
to
Cuban
into Fidel's drawer," referring
dictator Fidel Castro.
Ruben
Ruiz, a leader of the drug gang, alleged
that
Cuban officials "at the top chanHavana" aid and abet the
nels in
SELF-DESTRUCT— America's drug-abuse epidemic is a gratuitous weapon for the
Cubans in
their
support of the Soviets' battle against the West.
cocaine traffickers.
The information coming out of the
underscores the mounting evidence pointing to undeniable Cuban
trials
complicity
By Max Primorac
AN
N
election year void
of salient issues, the candidates were eager to
pounce on the provocative
topic of international drug
trafficking and its impact
on American society. Because no quick-fix answers
exist to stem this rise of
drug abuse
in this country, solutions are
focusing, instead, on the supply side
notably in Latin America.
The
18
U.S.
—
government
is
applying pressure on the drugsource countries to implement immediate anti-drug measures. During the
fall presidential race, Gov. Michael
Dukakis even suggested cutting off aid
to drug-producing countries such as
Colombia, Mexico and other Latin
suit,
following
American countries.
Often missing from the list of culprits
are Cuba, Nicaragua, and until
recently, Panama. While most of the
drug-producing countries recognize the
necessity to control and curtail the
growth and power of the illicit drug
industry, Cuba, Panama and Nicaragua
have, on the contrary, exploited it to
earn much-needed foreign exchange.
in,
and lucrative gain from,
American drug business. The
funds generated from these operations
finance Cuban-sponsored guerrilla
movements throughout the hemisphere.
In March, defector Maj. Florentino
the Latin
Aspillaga, a career officer with Cuban
intelligence, revealed to the Washington
Times how the Cuban government runs
an island resort for narcotics dealers
with Castro's direct knowledge and
approval. The island, Cayo Largo, is
also used as a transit point for narcotics
Max Primorac
is a research fellow at the
Council for Inter-American Security, a
foreign-policy research group based in
Washington, D.C.
shipments from Colombia to the United
States.
Aspillaga said the chief of Cuban
Intelligence Service personally briefed
him about powerful drug syndicates
that operate out of Cuban territory and
receive protection from Cuban Special
Troops.
The
ment
origin of Cuba's drug involve-
is
difficult to pinpoint.
less,
WE MUST
Neverthe-
corroborative evi-
dence from defectors,
informants and captured
traffickers all point to the
pivotal role played by
flood the
Cuban
intelligence.
More
disturbing is that the
Soviet Union wields
heavy influence over
Cuban intelligence and
would be fully aware of
its drug participation.
According to a highranking Czechoslovakian
United
States
with drugs
to hasten
the social
defector
who was
chief of
cabinet of the Ministry of
Defense, the Soviets
developed and initiated
the Cuban drug network
as part of an overall
Soviet strategy to use
drugs as a political weapon against the
West. The defector attended a Warsaw
Pact meeting in 1956 in which then
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev formulated the strategy.
The defector said that Khrushchev
explained how the drug business would
cripple the democratic societies while
simultaneously
generating
needed foreign exchange
much-
for intelli-
gence operations.
Following the Cuban Revolution,
Raul Castro, Fidel's younger brother
and Cuban Defense Minister, traveled
to Czechoslovakia and accepted a
Czechoslovakian intelligence station in
Cuba
in return for military aid.
The
Czechs were gradually replaced with
Soviet
KGB officers.
Castro, it must be noted, held no
moral or ideological scruples opposing
the strategy. On the contrary, drug pro-
was ideologically compatible.
defector once heard him say,
"We must flood the United States with
fiteering
A
Cuban
drugs to hasten the social decay
in the
citadel of capitalism."
The Soviet drug strategy was probably only one of many conceived
strategies intended to battle the West.
But to then blame them for our drugPlease turn to page 56
By Phyllis Zauner
HAT
convinces us to
poke our toes out from
the bedcovers at
dawn?
What pumps
us up
with enough adrenalin
to "face the tiger" yet
another day? Not that
many of us don't enjoy
our jobs, but when
you boil
working
it
all
is all
down, money
is
what
about.
Salaries
AMERICA
&
A 1987 poll by Louis Harris
Associates found that 63 percent of the
1 ,274 respondents rated a good salary
the most important job factor, even
above job security and a chance to use
one's mind and abilities.
Still, a nagging uncertainty lingers:
Are we making what we're really
worth?
Information on colleagues' salaries
is one of the last closely guarded secrets
in America. Yet without accurate information about one's standing on the
scale, winning the pay game presents a
strategic dilemma of the first order. To
appear overly greedy can hamper a
career. To be underpaid is degrading.
For the employer, the balance is
equally delicate. His goal is to set
salaries high enough to keep employees
and the best out of commotivated
petitors' hands — without breaking the
bank. In gauging a fair salary, companies use published studies, conduct
HOW
GREEN
IS
THE OTHER SIDE?
Service industries are expected to offer
the best-paying jobs in the 1 990s, but job
location also will make a difference.
—
own surveys or hire consultants.
But if you know where to look, you,
too, can find many sources of detailed
salary data. One of the most comprehensive publications is the "1988
Jobs Rated Almanac" compiled by Les
Krontz, which ranks 250 jobs by salary,
income outlook, on-the-job environ-
their
ment, stress and security. Others
include the "American Almanac of Jobs
and Salaries 1987-88" by John Wright;
the Bureau of Labor Statistics annual
survey; and annual surveys published
by the Administrative Management
PROMISING CAREERS-Ten of the 15 fastest-growing occupations during the
next decade will be in the health-care field.
THE TEN HOTTEST JOBS
Society.
How
generously an organization
rewards its people is based on its own
rule-of-thumb. But that doesn't mean
salary is beyond negotiation. Compensation experts say fear of rejection
should never get in the way of asking for
a raise. Some of their tips;
Phyllis Zauner,
a Sacramento-based
author of more than 400 articles, writes on
social conditions in America.
20
Data processing equipment
Paralegal personnel
Medical assistant
repairer
Physical therapist
Podiatrist
Physical and corrective therapy
•
Computer systems analyst
assistant
•
Medical records technician
Home
•
Employment
health aide
interviewer
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
•Don't apologize for asking for
more.
•Talk in terms of your merit, not your
personal needs.
•Don't be vague; mention a specific
amount, you'll get more.
•After the interview leave a
memo
your request.
Salary strategy is particularly cogent
for those just starting a career path and
restating reasons for
those looking for a career change.
They
want something that's going to be hot,
where chances of promotion and pay
increases are good.
So what
fields are
about to
boom?
"Health care and computers," said
George Silvestri, co-author of a federal
report titled "A Look at Occupational
Employment Trends
"
2000,
particularly health care. The study
shows 10 of the 15 fastest-growing
occupations will be in health fields.
Leading the way is medical assistant.
Demand is also expected to skyrocket
for physical therapists and home-health
aides, X-ray technicians, dental
to the Year
hygienists and podiatrists.
o
o
o
o
PAYOFF Starting salaries for 1988 graduates with a bachelor's degree averaged
$22,609; a master's degree earned $27,712; an MBA, $31,265; and a Ph.D., $31,479.
Behind the boom in health care is the
aging of America's population. Secondary pressure comes from the federal
government's attempt to clamp down
on health-care expenses, which translates to shifting duties from highly paid
doctors to medical assistants. The same
trend applies to health-care marketers
and managers, also
in great
demand.
AVERAGE STARTING SALARIES
FOR COLLEGE GRADS, 1988
Civil
$24,882
24,279
22,838
engineering
Physics
Accounting
Marketing/Sales
ANOTHER
trend spawning prodigious opportunity is the computer revolution. While technology
is automating a lot of jobs into oblivion,
it also creates thousands of openings for
programmers, analysts and repairers.
in fact,
Another hot profession
—
topping Silvestri's
list
—
is
paralegal, a
be gobbled
up by budget-minded law firms.
But while these emerging, fastgrowing occupations are changing the
Personnel administration
Advertising
19,319
18,983
Education
18,850
mgmt. 18,693
21,472
Hotel/Restaurant
Mathematics
21,246
Telecommunications
18,515
Financial administration
20,778
18,120
General business admin.
20,335
Communications
Home economics
Journalism
19,843
Natural resources
17,271
Social science
19,672
Retailing
17,035
Agriculture
19,401
Source: Society
for the
17,398
Advancement of Education.
classification expected to
look of the job market, they may not yet
necessarily account for the bulk of
high-earning jobs. A 1988 survey by the
Society for Advancement of Education
revealed that highest starting salaries
for new college graduates went to
chemical engineers, $30,200; electrical
engineers earned $29,900; mechanical
engineers, $29,500; and computer science majors, $28,000.
Extra degrees helped boost pay.
While graduates with bachelor's degree
averaged $22,609, a master's degree
brought $27,712, an MBA, $31,265,
and a Ph.D., $31,479.
APRIL 1989
The
central message for job seekers
1990s is that service industries,
not manufacturers of goods, will offer
the most growth in both pay levels and
in the
career opportunities. Today, the highinnovation enterprises that provide
much
U.S. job growth need specialized,
creative employees,
and a potpourri of
specialists such as printers, art direc-
Francisco; Washington D.C.; Atlanta;
and Phoenix.
It's a trend that has changed the
demographics of job hunting. "Go
where the money flows," is today's
credo, and it applies at all levels. A
survey by Roth Young Personnel Services revealed a surprising willingness
among the nation's 4.6 million sec-
lawyers and accountants.
David Birch, a leading authority on
how jobs are created, predicts that most
of the job action for the 1990s will
occur in the suburbs of cities with popu-
retaries to relocate.
1 million. He lists six
where job growth promises to be
to
tors,
lations exceeding
brightest:
Los Angeles;
New
York; San
Geographic variations in salary can
indeed be diverse. A teacher in South
Dakota can expect an annual income of
$19,758, in Indiana, $27,067. Moving
Alaska would boost income to
$40,500.
21
For years, acid
has been polluting our rivers,
streams and lakes.
The cure for some
Americans may
rain
I
be more painful
than the disease.
other scientists recognized the problem
and persuaded their governments to
begin funding comprehensive studies
of the phenomenon in the late 1970s.
studies continue even today, and
acid rain
still
washes the Earth with
its
than a century
ago, British chemist
Robert Angus Smith
lamented that industrial
emissions mixed with
precipitation was wreaking havoc on the English
midlands.
He called this
environmental nightmare acid
It
22
rain.
was decades, however, before
said that acid rain
is
man-made contamination.
spawning grounds
Caused by sulfur dioxide and nitrogen
oxide emissions from power plants,
factories and cars, the rain can intensify
the acid content in lakes and streams,
making the waters uninhabitable for
fisheries."
aquatic
life.
Indeed, in the northeastern
Atlantic coastal plain appear in jeopardy.
ORE
from
coal-burning utility plants in the U.S.
Midwest produces much of the acid rain
that falls in eastern Canada.
The
United States, fully a quarter of the
freshwater lakes and ponds in the Adirondack Mountains region have become
too acidic to support fish. About 50
percent of the streams on the mid-
ByJay Stuller
ANNOYED ALLY — Sulfur dioxide
Meanwhile, roughly 14,000 Canadian
lakes are fishless because of acid rain,
and the country's Department of the
Environment claims that at least
150,000 more are endangered.
A report by the New York-based
Environmental Defense Fund contends
that acid rain is also harming marine
life in Atlantic estuaries and bays.
Atmospheric physicist Michael Oppenheimer, who helped write the report,
"destroying the
for East
Coast
Acid rain also plays a large role in
destroying trees. Some of the earliest
and most notable damage has been
among at least 1 1 species in West Germany's Black Forest. According to
researchers at Auburn University, acid
rain and other atmospheric pollutants
are menacing forests in the southern
United States, where timber worth $63
billion is expected to yield up to 53
percent of America's lumber harvest in
decades— if it survives.
Although industrial and auto emissions have been subjected to a degree of
regulation in the United States and
four
Western Europe, uncontrolled emissions
have devastated forests in Poland,
East Germany, Hungary, Romania,
Jay
Stuller,
a San Francisco-based jourfrequently on social and
nalist, writes
environmental conditions
in
America.
Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union.
Allan Gotleib, Canada's ambassador
to the United States, said: "Roughly
half the acid rain falling in eastern
abnormally acidic rainfall. Automobile
emissions are the likely culprit.
At least 10 percent of all samples
taken by Audubon Network volunteers
Canada originates in the U.S. Midwest"
from the sulfur dioxide pouring out of
coal-burning utility plants. Although
Canada has reduced sulfur dioxide
emissions there by 35 percent since
1980 through a variety of controls and
are tested at
random by
the University
of California's Bodega Bay Marine
Laboratory. In the society's monthly
report last April, it noted that Vermont,
Pennsylvania and Massachusetts had a
rain pH averaging 4.1, which is about
the border
Delaware and
York checked in at 4.3, while
Maryland's and Michigan's rain had a
gains
4.4
voluntary measures, he said he
"The flow of U.S. acid
that,
worried
is
rain across
may begin even to negate the
made in our own program."
Acid rain, in fact, is a major point of
contention between the United States
and Canada, and one cannot blame
Canada for its aggravation. Fishless
ponds there menace a $200 million-ayear tourism business that employs
600,000 people. Gotleib said that half
of eastern Canada's forests, which contribute $14 million annually to the
Canadian economy, are getting "more
acid deposits than
we believe
is
healthy."
The great movement of tainted
as acidic as a cola drink.
New
pH
For
level.
all this, it's still difficult
to tell
whether the acid rain problem is
growing worse or getting better. The
Clean Air Act of 1 970 led to some reductions in
American output of several
chemicals, including a 27 percent drop
in sulfur dioxide since the peak year of
1973. Under 1977 amendments to the
Clean Air Act, scrubbers have been
installed in 146
units,
new power-generating
while older plants started burning
air is
low-sulfur coal. Power companies pro-
increasingly obvious.
As Canadian sciD.W. Schindler wrote in the Jan.
duce about two-thirds of the sulfur
entist
dioxide emission, but scrubbers,
although expensive, go a long way
toward removing sulfur from coal smoke.
1988, issue of Science: "Polluted air
masses have been convincingly tracked
8,
across the Atlantic and over the North
Pole from Eurasia to North America, by
using the unique, trace-metal content of
polluted air masses."
National Audubon Society's Citizen
Acid Rain Monitoring Network, a group
of volunteers
who measure
of precipitation in 49
CONGRESS,
however, has dragged
heels in passing
its
new
clean-air
legislation that requires further
Nor does acid rain form only downwind of power generation plants. The
the acidity
and
between 25
states
Mexico, have found that
and 30 states are chronically
hit
25 PERCENT
with
reductions from utilities and industry.
Allied against environmental groups
are coal producers, manufacturers and
utilities,
who would
bear the greatest
costs of tougher regulations.
While New England congressmen
see acid rain as a threat to their constituents' pleasure fishing, tourism
income and maple syrup businesses,
Midwestern lawmakers represent folks
whose livelihoods depend on industry.
New Hampshire Rep. Judd Gregg has
called the congressional acid rain
debate "regional trench warfare."
of the lakes
and
ponds in the Adirondacks have
become too acidic
New
clean-air legislation almost
through the 100th Congress.
National Audubon President Peter
Berle said that it was a good bill, and
pointed out that it was passed by the
made
it
Senate Environment Committee. He
contended that it stalled at the last
moment because of former Senate
Majority Leader Robert Byrd, who dug
a big trench to help his native West
Virginia's high-sulfur, coal-mining
industry.
asking that he bring the
for debate
bill
to the floor
and a vote," Berle
said,
"he
APRIL 1989
ByJayStuller
WITHIN the past decade,
sea-
food has been recognized as
one of the most healthy "flesh"
foods that humans can eat. Low in
fat and high in protein, fish and
by physicians
and dieticians as a nutritious alternative to beef, chicken and pork.
Americans apparently have
heeded the experts advice. In 1987
we consumed a record 15.4
pounds of seafood per person, and
shellfish are touted
last year's total
was
likely higher.
Moreover, while plates of broiled
snapper, tasty pink salmon and a
dozen delectably raw oysters are
ostensibly good for you, there's no
denying that such fare
good.
is
just plain
The trouble is, some of the fish
coming into United States' supermarkets and restaurants also can
be hazardous to your health, if not
deadly. Seafood can cary harmful
bacteria, viruses, natural toxins
and parasites. Residues from
untreated sewage, industrial waste
and pesticides flow into lakes,
and oceans, and accumulate
and shellfish.
Many of the parasite and microbal menaces are destroyed by
freezing or by the heat of cooking,
rivers
in fish
which is likewise true with pork,
poultry and beef. Yet, as the smell
of a fish left out of the refrigerator
too long indicates, microbiological
contaminants swiftly multiply
when seafood is not properly transported, packaged or stored.
Apparently, not
all
fish busines-
ses take the proper care.
An article
The Wall Street Journal last year
described one seafood packing
plant as having a "100-foot-long
pile of crab shells crawling with
in
"Although 46 senators signed a letter
to support fish.
THE POISONS
IN OUR
23
YOUTHFUL VALOR— After the gun crew was wiped out,
18-year-old cadet
Edwin
J.
O'Hara single-handedly returned the
fire.
HEROES OE IHE HIGH SEOS
By James N. Sites
Danger and hardship
AILING westbound alone
South Atlantic in
1942, the American Liberty ship Stephen Hopkins
sighted what appeared to
in the
be two cargo vessels.
One, however, suddenly
stripped away its disguise
and hoisted the swastika.
The ship was the German raider Stier,
armed with six 5.9-inch guns and
numerous other weapons, plus two torpedo tubes. She was with her supply
ship, the Tctnnenfels.
They demanded
the Hopkins to sur-
render. In reply, the Liberty's skipper,
24
were regular
shipmates of U.S.
merchant seamen
who kept the war
supplies flowing.
•••••••••••••
everything on deck. At the same time,
shell after shell from the Hopkins hit the
Stier at the waterline. Suddenly, the
Hopkins, after-gun crew was wiped out
and the Stier closed in for the kill.
It wasn't to be that easy. An 18-yearold cadet of the U.S. Merchant Marine
Academy, Edwin J. O'Hara, ran
through the chaos on the Hopkins' deck
and found five unused shells at the
battered but still usable gun. He opened
up on the raider once more, and soon
began to burn and list
badly. Both ships sank shortly afterthe Stier also
Paul Buck, raised the American flag
and turned his ship with its one 4-inch
gun toward the raiders. He and his Navy
Armed Guard crew would fight it out,
despite the odds. For 20 harrowing
minutes the Stier' s guns pounded the
Hopkins mercilessly and set fire to
ward.
James
N. Sites, author, editor
and public
relations specialist, served nearly four
years in the Merchant Marine during
World War II.
Buck O'Hara, the Armed Guard
commander, all deck officers and many
others died in that action, but a boat-
load of survivors escaped. After four
weeks in an open lifeboat, they finally
reached Brazil and safety.
There are endless examples of how
American merchant mariners made
uncommon
valor a common virtue
during World War II. Their numbers
were small
just 55,000 at the beginning of that war
but swelling to
250,000 by war's end, as ship-launch-
—
—
ings ballooned under the wartime
building boom. By VJ Day, according
to the War Shipping Administration,
73 1 American merchant ships had been
sunk, 5,638 merchant seamen were
dead or missing in action, thousands
more were wounded or permanently
crippled, and 581 taken as prisoners.
For the entire war period, 2.8 per
cent of the merchant seamen who were
registered with the U.S. Maritime
Service died. This casualty rate was
second only to that of the U.S. Marine
Corps, which suffered a slightly higher
rate of 2.9 percent.
Merchant seamen fought side by side
with American servicemen during
World War II and were indispensable to
the Axis Powers' defeat. They participated in the great invasions of Normandy. North Africa, Sicily, Anzio, the
Philippines and Okinawa, and in every
beachhead assault from Guadacanal to
Iwo Jima. They helped turn the oceans
into logistical bridges to victory.
But
it
took 43 years for the U.S. gov-
ernment to accord certain merchant
seamen the status of veterans, making
them eligible, as of last year, for veterans' benefits. The veteran status came a
bit too late for most merchant seamen
to take advantage of the GI education
benefits and guaranteed home loans,
but it did make wartime merchant
seamen who are still living eligible for
burial benefits.
The merchant seamen's epic of
hardship and heroism began right after
Pearl Harbor, with the wholesle sinking
by German U-boats of ships in
America's Atlantic coastal waters.
From mid-January
mid-March of
1942, 145 merchant ships were torto
pedoed right outside our capital cities.
During May alone, 41 ships were sunk
in the Gulf of Mexico. How did these
merchant seamen react to being a
"Into the seaports
came exhausted,
unnerved men, oil-smeared and halfnaked. Many wore dirty bandages over
horrible burns. All showed the strain of
a wretched experience. But old men
with a lifetime of sea service, together
with teen-age boys on their first trips,
showed
common
defiance
Their answer to the stock reporter's
question was, 'Hell yes, I'm shipping
a
out again!'
.
forget his awful experiences of the icy,
wartime run to Russia's Murmansk, or
of convoy PQ 17? This group of 33
ships left Iceland in June of 1942; only
1 1 made it through the swarms of
German aerial bombs, torpedoes and
seven never
made
it.
Unimaginable suffering alternated
with heroism on these merchant ships.
U.S. Liberty ship Henry Bacon,
carrying 35 Norwegian refugees out of
Russia in early 1 945 developed engine
trouble and was forced to drop out of
convoy. It was attacked by 23 German
airplanes. Many were shot down, but
two torpedoes finally found their mark.
As the Bacon sank, it managed to
launch two lifeboats and save all the
refugees. Chief Engineer Donald Haviland made it, too
temporarily.
Looking up, his eyes met those of a
young Navy gunner still on deck.
"Let that kid have my place," he
ordered, climbing back on deck. "It
won't matter so much if I don't get
back."
As the boats pulled away, the survivors saw Captain Alfred Carini
waving farewell from the bridge. He,
Haviland and 20 others went down with
The
,
—
the ship.
43 YEARS,
When another convoy straggler, the
Puerto Rican, was torpedoed in a violent storm in 1943, its crew was unable
to lower the lifeboats because the gears
MANY
MERCHANT
SEAMEN HAVE
BEEN GRANTED
U.S.
were encased in
reached a small
when
OF WORLD WAR
VETERANS.
ice.
raft.
Only eight men
Two days
later
rescuers found the raft, just one
—
was
still alive
and his feet were so
badly frozen that both had to be ampu-
THE STATUS
tated.
Reaching Murmansk didn't
II
guarantee a safe harbor, either. The
crew of the Yaka sweated out 156 air
raids while unloading cargo in the
••••••••••••
Soviet port. One merchant seaman,
Raymond Holubowicz, survived a torpedoed ship going into Murmansk,
mines and the fury of the elements.
British Prime Minister Churchill
only to be torpedoed again on a
described
it
as "one of the
most melan-
choly episodes of the war."
PQ 17 started out well-protected
with four cruisers and a host of other
naval vessels under British command.
However, word came that the German
battleship Tirpitz and battlecruiser
left their bases in occupied
Norway to intercept the convoy, which,
by then, was undergoing devastating
attack by planes and submarines.
Shockingly, the four Allied cruisers
Scheer had
were withdrawn and the merchant ships
ordered to scatter. Easy prey, most were
picked off one by one. Ironically, the
that question best in his
Murmansk
APRIL 1989
.
"
German battleships never left port.
More than 800 ships set out
War":
.
And what merchant seaman can
favorite target of the menacing Uboats? Perhaps F. Fiesenberg answered
book, "Sea
.
beleaguered Soviet forces. Ninety-
for
during a desperate Allied
effort to keep supplies flowing to the
westbound ship. He later sailed for
Murmansk on another ship, which was
so weakened by fierce attacks that she
had to be abandoned in a storm. He was
awarded a medal by the Soviet government in a rare official acknowledgment
of the services rendered by U.S. ships
and seamen in this grueling supply
operation.
The Mediterranean, with its bloody
North African and Italian campaigns,
proved equally harrowing to merchant
seamen. In the narrow straits of this
inland sea, 413 ships were lost to
enemy
action, with the Paul Hamilton
life of any
Liberty ship. Loaded with troops and
high explosives, she was hit by an aerial
torpedo in 1944 and disintegrated in
suffering the largest loss of
25
which have never been
Then came
Korean War, more Washington-born
tional taxes,
o
u
repealed, for the most part.
the
and Vietnam spendof it was financed by inflation and debt rather than taxes. By the
late 1970s, voters' opposition to
spending and taxes at all levels of government began to build. It erupted in
California's Proposition 13 tax revolt
against state property taxes, followed
by similar reactions in other states, and
the election of Ronald Reagan on the
social initiatives,
ing;
TAX SYSTEM
much
national front.
The taxpayers' revolts produced tax
pauses, even rollbacks in some states.
Congress cut income tax rates substantially for both individuals and corporations in 1981, but one year later Congress took back most of the corporate
cuts and tightened rules for individuals
that
for
families.
taxes in the United States apparently
only was temporarily slowed. The trend
in overall tax burdens of Americans,
some but not others, and that
quietly slips
offset the rate reductions
The steady march toward ever-higher
Overburdened taxpayers are becaming
Increasingly hostile to a system that
taxes
more than
many persons and
measured
as a percentage of total
national output, once again
dozens of hidden tax
The reason
increases into law.
societal needs, resulting
neglect,
ByJohn Hanly Adams
S
THE April
17 deadline
your federal tax
return on 1988 income
draws near, the dream of
a tax system accepted as
fair and simple seems as
for filing
A
away as ever.
The 1980s began with
far
loud cries for tax reform
and a new President riding out of the
west on promises of reducing government burdens and taxes. A sweeping
Tax Reform Act of 1981 was approved.
Four more "reform" measures were
passed in the next seven years — it was
is
coming from
on to consumers in their
goods and services.
Within the tax-paying population,
most attention and grumbling is
their tax costs
prices for
focused
end of the 1980s, demands
for tax changes still fill the air. Taxes, it
seems, are the hair shirt of American
politics and no one has figured out how
to make the people who have to wear
is
that shirt enjoy the feel of
The
it.
latest outburst of tax
resentment
national affairs since 1940.
26
One reason
government in
at the federal level.
that the central
Washington, D.C., collects twice as
much
tax
—
states
and
local governments.
$1 trillion in 1987
be the other way around.
It
—
as
used to
In 1930, for
land and
A
—
defense dividend
reduction in
the growth of military expenditures
stemming from
a
new
era of detente
with the Soviet Union and its client
states around the world
may help
meet some of these needs. But the
money saved will be far less than planners believe is required to modernize
U.S. public works and ease some of the
worst welfare dilemmas.
—
ADDING
to the financial tensions
afflicting all
governments now
is
the clamor from various pressure
groups for improved medical care to all,
more and better education opporhousing for the homeless and
lower-income families who can't find
tunities,
affordable living places.
The upshot is a groundswell of
demand for more government revenues.
Politicians of
New Deal expanded fedand activities to record highs.
Financing World War II required addi-
air,
water.
to find
1930s when
from years of
including unprecedented immigration,
and rising pollution of
twice as great as federal levies.
in the
upward.
runaway population growth
example, state and local taxes were
The change began
John Hanly Adams is a Washington, D.C.based journalist who has been covering
Americans who
charge they have been unfairly singled
out for a special tax increase, tied in
with Medicare.
But everybody pays something into
government coffers in one way or
another. Those who are so poor that
they are exempt from income and property taxes still pay hefty sales taxes and
payroll taxes for Social Security and
unemployment insurance when and if
they work. The bulk of taxes, however,
is paid by middle class and wealthy
Americans, and corporations that pass
the greatest tax turmoil on record.
Yet, at the
elderly
is
most often for this
turnaround is that American society is
facing a mounting backlog of unmet
cited
all
stripes are scrambling
ways of meeting
that
demand,
preferably without admitting they are
some
the Roosevelt
raising taxes. That
eral aid
unusual gyrations that are repulsive to
the people caught up in them, such as
is
leading to
i
INCREASING THE TAX BITE-Before the New Deal welfare programs introduced by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1930s,
Americans paid twice as much state and local taxes as they did federal taxes.
HIGH TAXES MATCH
Population served
Armed forces on
active duty
Federal civilian workers
State/local
government workers
DEMAND FOR SERVICES
1930
LATEST
123 million
246 million
Recreation visitors
2.2 million
Public airports
260,000
601,000
2.6 million
3
million
13.7 million
1930
LATEST
3.2 million
281 million
1,782
4,924
8
Public water supply (gallons per day)
billion
None
Social Security (covered)
Govt, assets (land, buildings, etc.)
$1,006
$3,952
145,000
760,000
Arrests
None
Medicare for elderly (enrolled)
320,000
10.4 million
73,000
317,000
Medicaid for needy (payments)
Teachers
1.3 million
4
Federal food, nutrition aid
None
Low-income public housing
None
Veterans
in civilian life
Veterans' benefits
Veterans'
life
insurance policies
million
754,000
28
148
4.7 million
million
648,000
32
million
23
million
$23.3
units
$4.2
billion
billion
1.3 million
Unemployment pay
None
$16.6
billion
27.7 million
Farm
None
$25.3
billion
$28.9
National debt (federal obligations)
billion
16.5 million
Federal-aided highway miles
193,650
833,000
National parks system
99 areas
338 areas
APRIL 1989
None
Medicaid for needy (recipients)
340,000
$676
billion
$76 billion
Medicare for elderly (payments)
Firemen
Postal workers
37.6 million
billion
Police
Mail handled (billions of pieces)
billion
$209
Social Security (benefits)
billion
39
price supports
$25
billion
$2.6trillion
million
$136
Net interest on national debt
(int.
paid less
int.
received)
Source: Statistical Abstract of U.S.; Tax Foundation Facts
$300
&
billion
Figures on Government Finance.
27
APPLE PEDDLERS-Government
grams
to create
pro-
work during the Depres-
sion sharply increased federal taxes.
those affected by the federal income tax
surtax on Medicare enrollees, artfully
labelled a "supplemental premium" by
architects on Capitol Hill.
Three significant shifts in tax and
tax-related policies are showing up in
Washington as the revenue scramble
moves into higher gear.
One is the "mandated benefits" ploy,
its
—
a way for Congress to have its cake
enlarging social benefit programs to
without
pacify activist groups
paying for it. The tactic is to mandate by
federal law broader health benefits for
—
employees of businesses, for instance,
without mentioning how to pay for
them. The assumption is that employers
will have to foot the bills.
In fact, employers usually try to pass
along some or all of the costs to their
employees in one way or another. And
the providers of last resort, state and
local governments, will often find that
their obligations, as employers, are
expanded without notice.
One estimate is that mandated benefits now cost state and local governments about $100 billion a year. There
is no reliable figure, because benefits
involved may be open-ended as to
extent and time in force.
Some powerful members of Congress have been quoted as seeing mandated benefits as the wave of the future.
Probably the most effective opposi-
tion to
mandated benefits
will
come
from state and local governments,
which can fight like tigers when the
feds threaten their financial turfs.
Business groups also are becoming
alarmed. One branch of a Washington,
The Heritage
D.C. -based think tank
—
Foundation's Institute for Economic
reported last October
Policy Studies
that more than 10 employee mandated-
—
benefit laws are in sight, with "a potential
price tag to businesses of
$120
$40
billion a year."
to
A second trend is the "hidden tax"
gambit, another strategem increasingly
adopted by Congress to hide a tax
increase under some other name.
The major example to date is the
surtax on federal income tax that
was
labelled an insurance premium. It
applies to everyone who accepts a
Social Security old-age benefit and is
thereby automatically eligible for hospital insurance under Medicare, the
federal health insurance system for the
elderly.
This new surtax became effective
1989 and will be due for full
payment with federal returns filed in
April 1990. Those making estimated
1989 income tax payments will have to
Jan.
AMERICANS RATE THEIR TAXES
Q.
What
is
the worst or least fair
tax?
None of the above
Don't know
Federal income tax
Local property tax
26
24
Social Security tax
17
State sales tax
income tax
Don't know; no answer
State
15
9
9
more revenue is needed to
improve public works services,
Q. If
which would you prefer?
35
Special taxes earmarked
for specific services
37
General, non-earmarked
Q.
What would make
taxes
more
fair?
Raise taxes on higher
incomes
Cut taxes on lower
incomes
Raise taxes on businesses
Leave the system alone
28
taxes
None of the above
12
7
Don't know; other
49
13
6
16
comments
quarter payment, due in April; or they
can wait and pay the whole amount with
their final return for 1989, due in April
1990.
People whose federal income tax
User fees or other charges
for specific services
.
reflect the additional tax in the first-
Percent Of
Respondents
1
9
Source: "Changing Public Attitudes on Governments
and Taxes" report by the Advisory Commission on
Intergovernmental Relations, reflecting a 1988 Gallup
Opinion Survey.
less than
is
$150 are exempted. Those
with higher tax liability will owe a
surtax of 15 percent on the amount of
tax over $150, up to a limit of $800
surtax, per person, in 1989 ($1 ,600 for
a married couple in Medicare). The
surtax increases each year until 1993
when it tops out at $1,050 per person
($2,100 for a married couple). After
1 993 it is scheduled to go up annually at
the official rate of inflation.
As
is
new tax,
Medicare
usually the case with a
many people
liable for the
AN INCOME TAX, THE JUST MAN WILL
PAY MORE AND THE UNJUST LESS.'
'WHEN THERE
IS
surtax were unaware of its requirements, at first. Those who are aware,
have started loudly protesting the
whole thing as unfair and an attack on
the elderly. Some are outraged by the
way Congress slipped the tax into law,
confusing its nature with the label of
"supplemental premium" and understating its cost by citing only the singleperson tax amount in most of the original explanatory press releases.
At press time, rumblings were
starting on Capitol Hill about possible
changes. One backer of the tax was
quoted as saying "Maybe we went too
far." Another backer told a TV newsman,
"We're going to find the senior citizens
in a near revolt over that package."
Other examples of hidden taxes are
too numerous to mention. Dozens of
tax increases have been slipped into law
in the past few years in the form of
higher user fees and license fees; IRS
regulations that boost the take from
selected groups; and ending deductions
from taxable income permitted under
longstanding law, such as the deduction
for interest on auto and other consumer
loans, now being phased out. Invariably those who feel the bites complain
they are being unfairly singled out for
taxing punishment.
• Potentially the most significant
trend on the tax policy horizon is a
gradual shift away from the income tax
to so-called "consumption" taxes. That
is a high-brow term for sales taxes and
their first cousins, the federal excises of
and duties on selected products
and services.
In 1989, Congress may go on a salestax binge, marking up the federal take
on gasoline, now nine cents a gallon,
and a bevy of other levies. One hit list
circulating on Capitol Hill identified
about $50 billion worth of such tax
fees
the rewards of dodging the tax outweigh
more and
more people start dodging.
Congress' holding the line on tax
increases this year will depend mostly
on whether the business boom continues, generating enough revenue to
meet the most pressing federal needs.
Nevertheless, state and local governments are going to squeeze harder,
seeking more ways to pump additional
the risks of getting caught,
dollars from their taxpayers. Will
new
hot
tax ideas
all
the
and actions produce a
History says no.
invented,
taxes to support it became necessary.
Then the griping began. Plato, the
Greek philosopher, wrote in "Republic"
in the 400 B.C.: "When there is an
income tax, the just man will pay more
system that's
fair?
When government was
PEOPLE'S GUARDIANS— The ranks of
public servants continue to rise to meet
population demands.
and the unjust less on the same amount
of income." Plato knew how the system
would work.
TAXPAYER BILL OF RIGHTS
THE first "Taxpayer Bill
IN
Rights," passed last October
as
period before the IRS can seize a
bank account; amounts of wages and
part of a law correcting errors in the
property exempted from collection
1986 Tax Reform Act, Congress
jerked its leash on the IRS, despite
IRS cries of indignation. The message
was: Cool off hot-headed IRS agents
and obey your own rules.
• The new law codifies many IRS
practices and regulations that were
sometimes ignored by field offices
and agents. Those practices will now
action are increased.
• The IRS is prohibited
of
be enforceable through the courts.
• A written outline of your rights
and the IRS's obligations must
accompany IRS notices to you about
an audit of your return, requested
refunds from you and collection
from
employees by income-produced quotas and goals.
rating
its
• The IRS
is
expressly authorized
to let taxpayers
pay tax debts in
installments.
•
tive
The IRS Taxpayer Representa(Ombudsman) can issue orders
releasing property levels and stopping collection action. The represent-
unpredictable. But
• The IRS must deduct any tax
amounts or penalties resulting from
the general concept of mining the tax-
errors in written advice provided to
ative can be overruled by higher-ups,
however.
• The U.S. Tax Court can intercede if the IRS tries to seize property
after a taxpayer's petition has been
filed with the court.
• Taxpayers get the right to sue the
IRS in U.S. District Court if an
payers through new channels, rather
than returning to higher income tax
rates, has political appeal.
Part of that appeal stems from aware-
you by the IRS.
employee knowingly or negligently
boosts.
actions against you.
What Congress
anything, in 1989
actually will do,
is
ness that the income tax
ficient"
—
less
and
becomes "inef-
less collectible
after rates pass a certain point.
APRIL 1989
if
—
•
A taxpayer can be accompanied
by his accountant or lawyer at audits
and other confrontations with IRS
officials.
• Taxpayers get a 30-day grace
property lien or
recklessly or intentionally disregards a taxpayer's claims. Litigation
costs will not be reimbursed if the
taxpayer loses.
fails to release a
When
29
AT CRITICS OF
VIETNAM VETERANS' STUDY
A government panel's critical review of The American
Legion and Columbia University Study on Vietnam Veterans
comes as no surprise to Natl Cmdr Gierke. "To accept
our study is
to
admit CDC was wrong all along" he says.
HE
American Legion
and a federal science
Injury Control.
panel have locked horns
over the findings of
T
The American Legion
and Columbia University Study of Vietnam
Veterans.
The
A Journal
of Environmental Medicine
and the Environmental Sciences
latest in a series
of charges and counter-charges is a
Feb. 1 letter from Nat'l. Cmdr. H.F.
"Sparky" Gierke to Rep. G.V "Sonny"
Montgomery, chairman of the House
Veterans' Affairs Committee. The letter
was in response to a report sent to Congress in January, stating that data in the
Legion study "do not support conclusions drawn by the authors."
Gierke told Montgomery that the
Legion stands behind the study, which
concluded that some Vietnam veterans
suffer health, social and psychological
problems because of exposure to the
herbicide Agent Orange and high levels
of combat.
The Legion study was reviewed for
Congress by the science panel of the
Domestic Policy Council's Agent
Orange Working Group. Released last
November, the study contradicted
a
previous study by the Centers for Disease Control.
Panel chairman Dr. Vernon N. Houk
30
Environmental Research
Editor-in-Chief
Philip
Senior Consulting Editor
Irving
J.
Selikoff
Managing Editor
Jose"
E. Baker
P.
Omenn
R. Lilis
D.
W. Clarkson
D. Hoel
B. Holmberg
C. Maltoni
E. K. Silbergeld
M. A. Mehlman
H. Needleman
Y. Suzuki
This
Rail
K. Tsuchiya
INC.
Number Completes Volume
47. Number 2, December
Volume
47
1988
CONFLICT— CDC's
the Legion study
criticism came after
was published in the
Environmental Research journal.
memo
that the Legion study
flawed due to major problems in study design and execution."
Houk is also director of the CDC's
Center for Environmental Health and
wrote
in a
"is seriously
CDC
conducted
a pilot
study and concluded that not enough
Last Veterans Day, Gierke held a
S.
D. V. Bates
ACADEMIC PRESS,
along."
In 1987,
study disputes.
A. Valciukas
Associate Editors
R. Lauwerys
G.
T.
all
Vietnam veterans were exposed to
Agent Orange to conduct a scientifically valid study, which the Legion
Landrigan
J.
"We believe that the CDC has a
vested interest in seeing the Legion
study disproved," Gierke said. "What
other choice does it have? To accept
our study is to admit CDC was wrong
press conference in Washington,
and unveiled the findings of the
DC,
five-
Legion-Columbia study.
December the study was published
In
the Environmental Research journal.
As
year
in
customary, the study was subjected to
rigorous peer review before publication.
The author of an editorial that accompanied the study in Environmental
Research is Dr. Michael Gochfeld of the
Department of Environmental and
Community Medicine, Robert Wood
Johnson Medical School, Piscataway,
N.J. Gochfeld described the study as "a
landmark in veterans health research
and occupational epidemiology. The
health effects data actually confirm
some veterans' fears and show relationships to herbicide exposure that have not
appeared so clearly
in other studies
.
.
"The analysis of the VA's inadequate
role in this story will not surprise
veterans, but
who have
may
many
stimulate legislators
oversight responsibility for
agency with its great potential to do
good," Gochfeld said.
The Legion's differences with federal
agencies over Agent Orange date to
November 1979, when Congress
passed PL 96-151, mandating that the
VA conduct an epidemiologic study of
the long-term health effects of dioxin
exposure on Vietnam veterans. The
Legion was encouraged by the action,
but wanted Congress to turn the study
over to an independent scientific
agency to avoid any possible charges of
conflict of interest that could be
this
directed later at the
As
VA.
turned out, the Legion's concern proved valid. In early 1983, after
little or no progress, the VA and the
Department of Health and Human Services agreed to hand the study over to the
CDC. By then, the Legion had tired of
the government's foot-dragging and
proceeded on its own. Dr. Jeanne Stellman, an associate professor at Columbia
University, and her husband, Steven,
then assistant vice president of the
American Cancer Society, joined with
the Legion to carry out The American
Legion and Columbia University Study
it
of Vietnam Veterans.
The Stellmans examined the records
of the Defense Department's
HERBS
computer tapes, which document 9,495
Agent Orange spray missions,
including the dates, chemical agents,
amounts, locations and purposes of the
missions, as well as the U.S. Army and
Joint Services Environmental Support
Group's records of spray missions,
which supplement the HERBS tapes.
Based on that data and the responses
of 6,810 randomly selected Legionnaires who served during the Vietnam
War, the Stellmans concluded that
exposure to Agent Orange can be
adequately matched by comparing
troop movements with spray missions.
Their finding contradicts the CDC's
claims that Agent Orange exposure
cannot be adequately documented.
In the editorial preceding the report
of the Legion study in Environmental
Research, Dr. Gochfeld wrote: "Such a
position (the CDC's) is unduly narrow.
If accessibility of higher-quality exposure data were the gold standard, virtu-
no occupational epidemiology
would ever be performed.
Previous
ally
.
.
.
studies that calculated morbidity, repro-
APRIL 1989
LINGERING AFTEREFFECTS— The Legion study showed that Vietnam veterans with
high levels of combat experience suffered more physical, mental and social
problems. The effects of combat were essentially ignored in the CDC's Vietnam
Experience Study.
ductive and mortality outcomes for
Vietnam veterans as a group are subject
to misinterpretation. The present
papers (Legion study) explain how to
avoid the pitfalls. ..."
Following publication of the study,
to Dr. Philip J. Land-
Houk complained
rigan, Environmental Research editor in
chief. In a
followup
file,
Landrigan
wrote that Houk "expressed his extreme
displeasure about these articles" and
charged that the journal's failure to
include a report of the CDC's validation study
"came close
to fraud in sci-
CDC study
said that such a
ence." (The
study as the Legion's could not be done.)
Environmental Research offered
Houk
the opportunity to write a rebuttal article,
but according to Landrigan,
Houk
declined.
Learning of Houk's bias against the
Legion study, Gierke wrote Dr. Otis R.
Bowen, then Secretary of Health and
Human Services,
urging Houk's removal
from any government review of the
Legion study. "If the science panel is to
objectively analyze and report our
study," Gierke wrote, "its members
must be free of any influence wielded
by an acting chairman with preconceived opinions. ..."
The Legion was
told that
Houk would
not be involved in any review and that
the Legion would be provided copies of
reports to Congress that concerned the
Legion
study. Neither
happened.
The Legion soon learned
that a
study had
been sent to the chairman and ranking
minority members of the House and
Senate Veterans' Affairs committees.
Accompanying the review was a cover
memo by Houk and other memos by the
reviewers, some of whom were CDC
employees and fiot members of the
highly critical review of
its
science panel.
31
Following are the criticisms lodged against The American Legion and Columbia University Study of
Vietnam Veterans by the Domestic Policy Council's Agent Orange Working Group committee. The
criticisms were drawn from the cover memo written by committee chairman, Dr. Vernon N. Houk, to Rep.
G.V "Sonny" Montgomery. The American Legion has responded to each criticism.
CRITICISM: "The data
presented in The American Legion report of the
Epidemiologic Studies
of Vietnam Veterans ( Environmental Research
7988; 47:109-209) do not
support the conclusions
drawn by the authors.
The study is seriously
flawed due to major
problems in study design
RESPONSE.We used random
CRITICISM: "Second,
RESPONSE: This
sampling as described on pages
114-115
in
Environmental
Research. The study was
restricted to men on The American Legion membership rolls in
there
rejection of the fundamental
principles of practically all
survey research contradicts the
basis of even the
study.
and execution.
questionnaire distributed to a
random sample of Vietnam veterans selected from the membership roster. Because the
Legion lacked accurate records
First,
there is potential selection bias due to non-
random sampling and
low response
rates.
potential information bias due to poor
is
questionnaire design
and the analysis only of
self reported data without external validation.
Colorado, Ohio, Maryland,
Pennsylvania, Indiana and
Minnesota. Analysis was based
on a mailed, self-administered
indiscriminate
CDC
Houk's memorandum incorrectly states that the
CDC study
found that "objective evidence"
from medical exams did not corroborate the self-reports from
the veterans. However, CDC's
report, published in the May
'88 issue of The Journal of the
American Medical Association,
states: "Within each cohort, the
prevalence of reported medical
problems
among
those
examined was similar to the prevalence in the total telephone
interview. Odds ratios based on
showing which war members
served in, researchers had to
separate Vietnam veterans from
other veterans. A tape was
made that contained the names
and addresses of American
Legion members in the six
states as of October 1983,
excluding those with 20 or more
years of continuous member-
examination
results
were
similar to those based on results
of the telephone interview."
ship because nearly
all such persons served in previous wars
and were therefore ineligible for
this study. The tape was passed
and one-seventh of the records
was randomly extracted. A
returnable postcard
was mailed
members requesting them
check off whether they
to the
to
served during the Vietnam war
or a prior war. For each postcard returned, an entry was
made
in the
computerized
file.
The names of the members who
returned their postcards were
removed from the file and the
remainder of the file was sent to
each post adjutant to identify
Vietnam veterans. This identification was designed to eliminate non-Vietnam veterans.
was not a process where a
veteran
himself
selected
into the study by filling out a
It
postcard.
Our response
able to
CDC's
rate
is
compar-
so-called "vali-
dation study" in which serum
samples were obtained from 66
percent of Vietnam veterans
and from 48 percent of non-
Vietnam veterans.
CRITICISM: "Probably of
greatest concern, any
observed association
between combat or herbicide exposure is confounded by the investigators' use of subjective
measures of combat and
herbicide exposure.
Combat exposure was not
validated by comparison
with military records. The
herbicide exposure index
used by the authors has
not been validated by
comparison with military
records. The herbicide
exposure index used by
the authors has not been
validated, and based on
the Agent Orange Validation Study and the Ranch
Hand Study, does not
accurately predict exposure. Because of these
problems, the results of
The American Legion
report are of little or no
value in further understanding the Agent
Orange
tive
issue.
The collec-
decision of the gov-
RESPONSE:
According to
this
government
believes there is only one way to
determine whether a veteran
was exposed to herbicides: a
blood test for dioxin. The
statement,
the
reviewers feel that because they
have not been able to validate
between expo-
the comparison
sures and military records at a
100 percent concordance level,
they may dismiss all studies,
including
The
American
Legion's, that use any other
method of assessing veteran
exposures in Vietnam. The clinical criteria of retrospective
blood tests, in lieu of using the
vast amount of herbicide
spraying and troop movement
information available for study,
are merely an attempt to mislead the public and the independent scientific community. It
amounts to a scientific sham.
Our exposure measure
is
reasonable and produces reasonable results. Yet,
CDC criticizes
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$138,000
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15,180
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16,560
13,800
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8,280
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1,380
60-64
12,880
11,040
9,200
7,360
5,520
3,680
1,840
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65-69
8,050
6,900
5,750
4,600
3,450
2,300
1,150
575
70-74*
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4,554
3,795
3,036
2,277
1,518
759
379.50
75-Over*
4,025
3,450
2,875
2,300
1,725
1,150
575
287.50
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$160
$128
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year.
satisfied
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%
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13, 11, 9, 7,
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and 3 units also
5
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Veterans update
p
%Jorrection: The list of diseases presumed to be serviceconnected under the Atomic Veterans Compensation Act of
1988 include 13 cancer-related conditions, instead of the 10
that were listed in Veterans Update in February. The diseases
are all forms of leukemia except chronic lymphatic leukemia,
thyroid cancer, pancreatic cancer, breast cancer and cancers
of the pharynx, esophagus, stomach and small intestines,
bile ducts, gall bladder, primary liver cancer, multiple
myeloma and lymphomas, except Hodgkin's disease.
A veteran suffering from leukemia had to contract the
disease within 30 years of exposure and be rated at least 10
percent disabled as a result. The other forms of cancer must
have developed within 40 years and also render the veteran at
least 10 percent disabled.
The VA is required to pay benefits to veterans who were
exposed to radiation on active duty during nuclear testing
from 1945 to 1962, or during the U.S. military occupation of
Hiroshima or Nagasaki, Japan, between Aug. 6, 1945 and
July 1 1946, and who have incurred one of the diseases listed
above within the stated time frames.
A provision that would require the VA to establish a pilot
program for training assistive monkeys and dogs was not
included in the Veterans' Judicial Review Act/Veterans'
Benefit Improvement Act of 1988, as reported in February.
The provision was deleted before passage of the legislation.
However, Sen. Alan Cranston of California, chairman of the
Veterans' Affairs Committee, has included a similar proposal
in S. 13, the Veterans' Benefits and Health Care Act of 1989,
which he introduced in the Senate.
,
number of slices in a pie. The Legion will
continue to support the VA as the sole agency responsible for
the administration of benefits, service programs and medical
care to this nation's veterans." Gierke said the Legion would
oppose any consolidation attempts "just to satisfy Congress'
veterans than the
needs to find false savings."
Gierke's statement echoed Legion Res. 250, passed at the
1988 National Convention, which opposes transferring any
veterans' benefits and service programs from the
The hoax concerning GI
dends for veterans
is
back and
Legion Magazine as
Each year
VA.
insurance
falsely citing
divi-
The American
a source of the information.
26 years, phony news stories posted
on company bulletin boards and published in newsletters,
magazines and other publications have informed veterans
that they are entitled to GI insurance dividends of hundreds
of dollars from the VA.
Recent examples of the phony news story are now stating
that it was published in this magazine. The claim is false. In
fact, this magazine regularly publishes articles denouncing
for the past
the notice as a hoax.
The phony notice usually begins this way: "A bill recently
passed in Congress gives veterans a dividend of 55 cents per
$1,000 of their GI insurance for each month they were in
service. This is regardless of whether or not the veteran still
carries this insurance."
The notice says
the dividend
is
not automatically sent to
VA.
Center in Philadelphia receives about 15,000
applications per week from veterans seeking information
veterans, so they need to apply to the
in
I Wat'l
Cmdr.
H. F. "Sparky" Gierke has voiced the
Legion's opposition to a recent proposal to merge VA and
military hospitals. While noting that the Legion supports
certain individual cases of resource sharing, Gierke said that
"military medical facilities and VA medical centers have
divergent constituencies with medical needs best addressed
by a continued separation of operation."
He said that military hospitals and clinics must treat family
medical problems afflicting a younger generation, while the
VA medical mission includes pioneering research in geriatrics
and
VA
about the nonexistent dividends. A VA official said veterans
should be suspect of any notice telling them to write the VA
to get their dividends, since all GI insurance dividends are
mailed automatically to policy holders. The VA also does not
pay dividends on policies no longer in force.
A Legion spokesman warned all editors of post and department publications to verify the source before printing news
stories concerning insurance dividends awarded by the VA.
rehabilitation, as well as training the nation's future
doctors and nurses.
Gierke's statement to the press came in response to a Feb.
14 newspaper article in the Washington Post that reported the
Disabled American Veterans organization was in favor of
consolidating 172 VA medical centers with the DoD's 130
hospitals and 330 outpatient clinics.
The Post article also quoted former VA Deputy Administrator Thomas Harvey as an apparent supporter of the DAV
proposal. Harvey was quoted as saying that the current
working agreement between the Washington, D.C., VA
Medical Center and the Walter Reed Army Medical Center
"makes a lot of sense." Harvey added, "What they have found
is that when they were done, instead of having smaller pieces
of the pie,
it
made
the pie larger."
Gierke labeled the idea as "nonsense," and noted that
"The American Legion is more concerned with care for
APRIL 1989
The
A
mm
national conference
on veterans' employment
"Workforce 2001 A Veterans' Odyssey, will be
held April 19 through April 21 in Spokane, Wash.
Sponsored by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for
Veterans' Employment and Training, the Interstate Conference of Employment Security Agencies and several national
veterans' organizations, the conference will conduct workshops on developing employment opportunities for veterans,
including women veterans and severely disabled veterans.
Jim Hubbard, director of the Economic Division in
Washington, D.C., will represent the Legion at the confer-
and
training,
:
ence.
For registration information, contact Charlie
(406) 728-7060.
Brown
at
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Veterans alert
OUTFIT REUNIONS
Guidelines — Outfit Reunion notices must be
submitted on official forms only. To obtain forms, send a
sell-addressed, stamped envelope to: O R. Form, The
American Legion Magazine, P.O Box 1055, Indianapolis,
IN 46206. Notices must be received at least five months
before reunions are scheduled and will be published only
on a first-come, first-served basis Notices are published
only
one time per
unit
per year.
Army
45th General Hospital (WWII) (May-Williamsburg, VA)
Frank Zahemski, 244 Maryland Ave., Paterson, NJ
07503(201)278-4543
46th/501st Chem. Smoke Generator Cos. (JuneWashington) George Farrell. 10124 Dolby Ave., Glenn
Dale, MD 20769 (301 464-5535
52nd Chemical Co. (Sept-Harrodsburg, KY) William
Kerest, 102 Dunwoodie St.. Yonkers, NY 10704 (914)
)
969-1341
58th Gen. Hospital (June-Indianapolis) William Gudgel,
HC65, Box 33. Ainsworth, NE 69210 (402) 387-1199
62nd Arm'd F.A. Bn. (Sept-Amarillo, TX) Jerry Eades,
2312 Skylark St., Arlington, TX 76010 (817) 275-1556
65th Inf. Div. (Sept-Baltimore) Maurice Neil, 8409 Brook
Pk. Dr,, #112. Canton, Ml 48187
66th Inf. Div. (Sept-Europe) Robert Hesse, 26 E. Curtis
St., Linden, NJ 07036 (201 925-0192
68th AAA Gun Bn. (1950-52) (Aug-Elmwood, Wl) Leslie
Long, Rt, 1, Box 173, Elmwood. Wl 54740 (715) 639-6288
69th Inf. Div. (Aug-Denver) Clarence Marshall. 101
Stephen St New Kensington. PA 15068 (412) 335-3224
70th Div. QM Co. (Aug-Salem, OR) E L Dunton, 675 W.
Hills Way, N.W Salen. OR 97304 (503) 364-1616
71st Inf., 44th Div., Co. (Sept-Myrtle Beach, SC) L.W.
Allen, 3001 Manor Rd,, Charlotte, NC 28209 (704) 333)
1st F.A.
Obsn.
3238 Rogers
NC) Vernon Beavers,
NC 28303 (919) 867-6214
(Oct-Fayetteville,
Dr.
,
Fayetteville,
25th Inf., B Trp. (1967) (June-Harrison,
AR) George Galler, 6391 Goodwood Ave Baton Rouge,
LA 70806(504)926-7337
2/1 Cav., 4th Inf. Div., C Trp. (Vietnam) (July-Emporia,
KS) Tom Schluchter, 3932 N Center, Saginaw, Ml 48603
1
st Pit., 3/4 Cav.,
,
790-0195
2nd Inf., 5th Div., Co. (WWII) (Sept-Battle Creek, Ml)
Leon Belardinelh, 1351 Windsor Ct.. Elgin, IL 60120 (312)
931-0847
3rd Bn., 197th FA (1968-69) (Sept) 3rd Bn. 197th FA
Vietnam Committee, 133 Walnut Ave., No. Hampton, NH
03862 (603) 964-6546
4th Arm'd Assn. (July-Stamford. CT) Samuel Schenker
Sr, 1823 Shady Dr., Farrell, PA 16121 (412) 342-6058
4th Cav. Assn. (Sept-Council Bluffs, IA) Mike Loberg. Box
416, Annandale, MN 55 3 02 612 274-54 22
4th Inf. Div. Assn. (May-Europe) Greg McDonnell. 1
Crestview Dr., Dover. NH 03820 (603) 742-8090
5th Arm'd Div. Assn. (Sept-Boston) Will Cook, 13344
Luthman Rd., Minster, OH 45865 (419) 628-4032
6th Signal Co., 6th Div. (Sept-Nashville, TN) Bernal
Hanna, 111 2nd St., Bemis, TN 38314 (901 423-0727
10th Arm'd Div. Assn. (WWII) Aug-MMwaukee. Wl)
Jessie Everett, 2845 Broadway, #307, Boulder, CO
80302 (303)442-1829
10th Inf., 5th Inf. Div., A Co. (June-Columbus, OH) S
Highsmith, 9Tween Waters Ct.Tavares, FL 32778 (904)
343-8766
11th Amr'd Div. (Aug-Rapid City, SD) Alfred Pfeiffer, 2328
Admiral St Aliquippa, PA 15001 (412) 375-6295
1 5/1 7th Cav. Recon. Sqs. (Sept-Trenton, NJ) Joseph
Suosso, 417 Newkirk Ave Trenton, NJ 08610 (609) 586(517)
I
(
)
)
(
.
,
6703
15th
Inf.
Rgt. (July-Waukee. IA) George Pilkington, Rt.
1,
Cuba, IL 61427 (309) 785-2863
17th Base Post Office (Sept-Hagerstown, MD) Warren
Cook. 169 Heritage Rd Chambersburg, PA 17201 (717)
264-5852
17th F.A. (Sept-Carlisle, PA) George Hackelt, Box 404,
Post Rd., Canton, NY 13617 (315) 386-2070
17th Major Port, TC (Attach. Units/WWII) (Apr-San
Antonio. TX) Ralph Rinn, 1001 E. Gonzales, Yoakum, TX
77995(512)223-5528
18th Combat Engrs. (Oct-Willow Street, PA) Henry Hess,
15 Batt Ave Willow Street, PA 17584 (717) 464-3698
20th Arm'd F.A. Assn. (Sept-Indianapolis) L B Vinson,
2102 Ardmore Ave., #123, Ft. Wayne, IN 46802 (219)
Box
26,
,
,
432-0119
22nd/227th/229th Signal Op. Cos. (Sept-Johnstown,
PA) John Sobditch, 169 Jacob St.. Johnstown, PA 15902
(814) 288-5373
24th Inf. Div, 5th RCT, 555th FA, 6th Tank Bn. (WWII/
Korea) (Sept-Ft. Worth, TX) Kenwood Ross, 120 Maple
St., Springfield, MA 01103 (413)733-3194
28th Ord. MM Co. (May-Knoxville, TN) James Wheeler,
Box 3548, Knoxville, TN 37927 (615) 525-1694
29th Div. Assn. (Sept-Arlington, VA) Harvey Folks, 1504
Merrimac Dr., Adelphi, MD 20783
Div. Red Arrow Club (Great Western) (AprPhoenix, AZ) L.E. Abel, Rt. 4, Box 93A 81, Woodland. CA
95695 (916) 662-9489
33rd Inf. Div. (Sept-Indianapolis) Bill Endicott, Box 532,
Kirkland, WA 98083 (206) 822-4000
34th Inf. Rgt., 24th Div. L Co. (Sept-Hershey. TN) Frank
Reimel, 59 High St., Montrose. PA 18801 (717) 278-2356
38th Div. Band (WWII) (June-Rushville, IN) Joe Alexander, Rt. 5, Box 248. Rushville, IN 46173 (317) 932-4904
38th Engr. Rgt. (C) (Sept-Canton. OH) Dwight Netzly,
1237 Lincoln Way E., Massillon, OH 44646 (216) 832-
32nd
9744
,
.
I
1951
72nd
.
5220
88th Div. (So. Eastern Chapter) (Apr-St Petersburg, FL)
George Spino, Box 2561. Largo, FL 34649
94th Signal Bn. (Aug-Wichita, KS) H. M. Boyer. 910 N Mt
Carmel St., Wichita, KS 67203 (316) 942-6604
95th Evac. Hospital (Sept-Charleston, WV) Arley
Basham. 2290 Blackwell Dr., Charleston, WV 25312
(304 744-8211
Inf. Div. (Aug-Ft. Worth, TX) Lester Wolf. 8032 S.
)
95th
Ct., Justice, IL 60458 (312) 458-3047
99th Inf. Div. Assn. (June-Dallas) James Mcllroy, Box 98,
Celma, TX 75009 (214) 382-2371
101st CA AA Bn. (WWII) (July-Savannah. GA) Lee
Johnson, 1444 Baracoa Ave Coral Gables, FL 33146
(305) 666-3025
103rd Combat Engrs., 28th Div. (WWII) (June-Charleston. WV) Lewis Kelso, Rt, 1, Box 458-E-1, Fountaintown,
IN 46130 (317) 861 -4821
103rd Med. Bn. & Rgt. Assn., 28th Div. (Sept-Monroeville, PA) Penrose Milham. 1725 Wilson Ave.,
Lancaster, PA 17603 (717) 393-3318
110th Engr. (C) Bn., A,B,C,H&S Cos. (WWII) (JuneKnoxville, TN) William Hunt. 909 21 st St., Knoxville, TN
37916(615)524-0140
110th QM Bakery (Aug-Kansas City. MO) Harry Tucker,
510 Burton St., Raleigh, NC 27608 (919) 834-8639
112th Inf., 28th Div., A Co. (July-Corry, PA) James
Roden, 222
Smith St., Corry, PA 16407 (814) 6647449
114th Inf. Rgt., B Co. (June-Kansas City, MO) George
Price, Box 517, Levelland, TX 79336 (806) 894-3577
120th Med. Rgt., 45th Div., A Co. (WWII) (July-Cushing.
OK) Fred Cannon, 702 E. Main, Cushmg, OK 74023
123rd General Hospital (1944-45) (Sept-Cleveland) Dr.
T.J. Glennon, 82 Arlington Rd Woburn, MA 01801
124th FA, 33rd Div., A Btry. (WWII) (June-Wisconsin
Dells, Wl) Bruno Steponkus, 2996 15th Ave., Wisconsin
86th
.
W
,
Wl 53965
AAA Gun
Bn. (Oct-EI Paso, TX) R Fiske, 9321 Lait
TX 79925
Vets Assn., 32nd Div. (Sept-Marinette, Wl)
David Connaher, 4307 11th St., Menominee, Ml 49858
(906) 863-3565
129th Inf., 37th Div., B Co. (June-Springfield, MO) Varlan
Vancil, 305 W, Main, Sparta, IL 62286 (618) 443-2283
Dr., El
Paso,
Inf.
Rgt. Assn. (WWII) (Sept-Oak Brook, IL) Ed
IL 60650 (312) 825-6367
Assn.
(Aug-Grand Island, NE) Robert Fowler,
134th Inf.
1619 W. 50th St., Omaha, NE 68104 (402) 553-6448
139th O.B.A.M. Bn., 3037 Co. (Apr-Williamsburg, VA)
Hampton Stump, 14 Dimmock Ave., Newport News, VA
Inf.
Ozzie, Box 50832, Cicero,
23601 (804) 599-6540
143rd AAA Gun Bn. (WWII) (July-Lancaster, OH) Harry
Lane, 7291 Alspach Rd,, Lancaster, OH 43130 (614) 8379128
148th Engr. Combat Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Washington. PA)
Leroy Sten. 1396 Beech St. Ext., Washington, PA 15301
(412) 225-9452
149th Inf., 38th Div., Co. (July-Marion, KY) Robert
McMican. 212 W. Elm St., Marion, KY 42064 (502) 9654683
150th Combat Engr. Bn. (WWII) (May-Lowell. MA) Philip
Dobruck. 873 Windsor Ave Windsor, CT 06095
151st Inf., E Co. (June-Darlington, IN) Donald Weliever,
Rt. 1, Darlington, IN 47940 (317) 794-4525
157th Inf. Rgt., 158th FA Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Willlamsburg, VA) Felix Sparks, 7900 W. 23rd Ave.,
Lakewood, CO 80215 (303) 233-2369
161st Inf. Rgt., 41st Div., G Co. (July-Prosser. WA)
Howard Madson, 2317 Umpqua Rd., Woodburn, OR
97071 (503)981-6562
166th Gun Bn., D Btry. (Sept-Des Moines, IA) Edward
Bunker, Box 12, Sac City, IA 50583 (712) 662-7631
168th CA. Bn. (Anti-Aircraft) Apr-Emporia, KS)
Lawrence Ringler, Rt, 5, Box 61, Emporia, KS 66801
(316) 279-4218
172/941 st FA, 774th TD (Aug-Manchester, NH) Joseph
Proulx, 300 Candia Rd., Manchester, NH 03103 (603)
625-6789
177th F.A., C Btry. (July-Owosso, Ml) Alvin Honke. 113 N.
State Rd., Owosso, Ml 48867 (517) 743-4148
185th Inf. Rgt., 40th Div. D Co. (WWII) (Oct-Visalia, CA)
Jack Moffett, 16314 Candlelight Dr., Whittier. CA 90604
(213) 943-3148
185th Signal Bn., B Co. (Sept-Myrtle Beach, SC) Junior
Pittman, 2711 Hwy. 11, Landrum, SC 29356 (803) 895I
.
(
(
127th
36
NC) John
34602
Brooksville, FL
866-4215
78th Ord. Depot (June-Cincinnati) Stanley Strand, Rt. 2.
Box 66B, Erskine, MN 56535 (218) 687-4095
78th Signal Co. (Sept-Canton. OH) Paul Stokely, Rt. 1,
Box 628. Center Point. TX 78010 (512) 634-2469
80th Gen. Hospital (WWII) (Oct-Raleigh. NC) George
Allred, Box 235. Bonlee, NC 27213 (919) 837-5883
83rd Infantry Div. Aug-Cincinnafi) Robert Derickson.
3749 Slahlheber Rd., Hamilton, OH 45013 (513) 8632199
83rd Ord. HM Co. (FA) (Sept-Minneapolis. MN) Bob Hall.
1504 Oak Ridge Dr., Hastings, MN 55033 (612) 4375932
86th Blackhawk Div. Assn. (Sept-Tarpon Springs, FL)
Alyn Dull. 1226 Kilian Blvd St Cloud. MN 56301 (612)
252-9579
88th Chemical Mtr. Bn., C Co. (July-Nashville. TN) Fred
White, Rt 5, Box 160. Livingston. TN 38570 (615) 823-
428-1352
44th Engr. (C) Bn. (Aug-Gatlinburg, TN) Albert Cline, Box
501, Gaffney, SC 29342
45th AAA HQ Bde. (Aug-Nashville, TN) Francis Heroux.
1106 5th Ave, Grafton, Wl 53024 (414) 377-0496
,
,
766-8745
74th CA AA (All Units) (May-Ft. Monroe, VA) Fred
Brooks. 2000 Wilhem Ave.. Baltimore. MD 21237 (301)
127th
(216)
Wildlife Ln
(904) 799-0197
Dells,
AAA
28404
74th AA Gun Bn., C Btry. (Sept-Lancaster, PA) Rudolph
Matvey, 1331 Geyer Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15212 (412)
Grp., HQ Btry. (July-Madison, OH) Joe
Derubertis, 6534 Derubertis Dr., Madison. OH 44057
39th
F.A. Bn. (All Units) (June-Troutman,
Petrovich,
132nd
2645
187th Parachute Inf., 11th A/B Div., E Co. (JuneSeattle, WA) Pat Kenny, 213 Myrtle St., Myrtle Beach, SC
29577 (803) 448-5560
194th F.A. Bn., Grp., 185th/740th FA (WWII) (Sept-Little
Amana, IA) Hugo Potratz, 1510 Williams Dr., Ft. Dodge,
IA
50501 (515) 576-3740
AAA Bn. (Sept-No. Chicago.
198th
IL)
Emil Custer,
W5274 Faro Springs, Hilbert, Wl 54129 (414) 989-1584
202nd CA. (AA)/202nd AAA Qrp. (Sept-San Diego)
Roger McCabe. 7400 Edgemere Blvd., El Paso, TX
79925 (915) 778-0632
202nd Combat Engr. Bn., C Co. (WWII)
(July-Niles,
OH)
John Hyre, 1360 Niles Cortland Rd. S.E.. Warren, OH
44484(216)856-2070
203rd Gen. Hospital (WWII) (Oct-San Antonio, TX)
Edward Vogel, 10918 Grand Haven, San Antonio, TX
78239
204th AAA Bn. (July-Canton, OH) George Sefton, 788
Saxonburg Blvd., Saxonburg, PA 16056 (412) 352-1219
208th CA AA Vets (June-Middlebury. CT) Harry MacNeil
Jr., 26 Mountain Rd., Torrington, CT 06790 (203) 4898882
210th Gen. Hospital (July-Boiling Springs, PA) Lowell
Dean. 185 Central Ave Westerville. OH 43081
214th AAA CA, C Btry. (Aug-Wellington, OH) Andrew
Nye, 430 E Spring St., Zelienople, PA 16063 (412) 452,
7169
226th MP Co. (May-Laughlin, NV) Leslie Simmons, 1444
N Recker Rd, #108, Mesa, AZ 85205 (602) 981-7265
233rd Engr. (C) Bn. (Sept-Boise, ID) Gene Skogerson,
3623 Sycamore Dr., Boise, ID 83703 (208) 342-1206
238th Engr. (c) Bn. Assn. (July-Moncks Corner, SC)
Jesse Miller, 756 Greendale Rd,, York, PA 17403 (717)
854-5169
240th Engr. Bn (Aug-Dayton, OH) Donald Musser, 1658
8th St. N.W Cedar Rapids, IA 52405 (319) 362-1091
242nd F.A. Bn. (Aug-Kearney, NE) Katherine L'Heureux,
Box 158, Campbell, NE 68932 (402) 756-8727
243rd Port Co. (Oct-Williamsburg, VA) Nelson Shearer,
202 2nd St.. Towanda, PA 18848 (717) 265-5445
264th F.A. Bn. (June-Florence, KY) Lawrence Gresham.
804 Anaconda Ave., Charleston, WV 25302 (304) 3425067
264th Ord. MM Co. (Sept-No, Little Rock, AR) J.B.
Reynolds, 905 E, 53rd PI., No. Little Rock, AR 72116
(501)758-1863
300th AFA Bn., C Btry. (Aug-Worland, WY) Ralph Pickett,
604 Obie Sue, Worland, WY 82401 (307) 347-6567
317th FA, 81st Div., HQ Btry. (WWII) (Aug-Reedsburg.
Wl) Frank Divita, E 2044 County Hwy. G., LaValle, Wl
53941 (608) 985-7172
329th Inf., 83rd Div., Rgt. HQ Co. (June-St Marys. OH)
Frank Fauver, 403 Edgewood Dr., Wauseon, OH 43567
(419) 335-9363
337th/1338th Combat Engrs. (Aug-Parkersburg. WV)
.
,
Veterans alert
Fred Varner, 318 Woodland Ave., Parkersburg, WV 26104
(304)422-1500
343rd Ord. Dpt. Co. (Apr-Branson, MO) Reinie Wiederrich, 3161 N.E. 79th, Portland. OR 97213 (503) 253-2968
346th Engr. Rgt. (July-Racine, Wl) Thomas McMahon,
1527 Ellis Ave., Racine, Wl 53402 (414) 639-3118
368th Engrs. (Aug-Milwaukee, Wl) Alex Andreski, 460
Bostwick Ave. Janesville, Wl 53545 (608) 754-9321
369th E.A. & S.R. (June-LaCrosse, Wl) Bob Reed. Box
503. Sullivan, Wl 53178 (414) 593-2422
374th F.A. Bn., 100th Div. (WWII) (May-Deland, FL) Eli
Fishpaw, 1104 E. University Ave., Deland, FL 32724
(904) 734-6934
389th F.A. Bn., 97th Div. (WWII) (Sept-Cincinnati) Joe
Newbauer, Rt. 3, Box 3668F Grayling, Ml 49738 (517)
939-8938
391st/392nd Med. Coll. Cos., 61st Med. Bn. (WWII)
(July-Elkins, WV) Virgil Hart, Rt. 1, Box 229. Elkins, WV
26241 (304) 636-1958
396th ASF Band (June-Seattle, WA) Victor Dahlberg,
13715 N.E. 71st PI., Redmond, WA 98052 (206) 885,
3927
397th AAA AW Bn., 40 M/M Bn. (Sept-Hershey, PA)
Edward Rowe, 11201 Towood Rd., Kingsville, MD 21087
(301
)
592-6471
400th AA AW Bn., C Btry. (Aug-Grand Island, NE) Walter
Anson, 642 N. Broadwell, Grand Island, NE 68803 (308)
382-7400
411th Inf., 103rd Div., M Co. (WWII) (Jun-Hazel Green,
Wl) Vernon Silha, 514 Nelson, Coon Valley, Wl 54623
(608) 452-3418
417th Inf. Rgt., 76th Div., G Co. (Sept-Williamsburg, VA)
Albert Benik, 726 Reynolds Ave., McKeesport, PA 15132
(412)673-6556
441st Med. Coll. Co. (June-Indianapolis) Lloyd Tindall,
905 N. Downey Ave., Indianapolis, IN 46219 (317) 3562652
456th AAA AW Bn. (June-Sheffield, AL) Bruce Berryman,
Rt. 1, Box 156, Town Creek, AL 35672
476th AAA AW Bn. (Aug-Chattanooga, TN) George Cox.
50 E. Lake, Box 5927, Tuscaloosa, AL 35405 (205) 5536745
483rd
AAA AW
Aycock,
Rt. 4,
Bn. (June-Chapel Hill, TN) Clifford
Box 57, Tuscumbia, AL 35674 (205) 383-
7246
492nd Port
Bn., 230/231/232/233 Cos. (Sept-MilOH) Frank Danicki, 1060 Plaza Dr., Amherst,
44001 (216) 988-2465
494th AA Bn. (Sept-Estes Park, CO) G.F. Dickinson, 3007
W. 12th St. Rd., Greeley, CO 80631 (303) 352-5570
501st AAA Gun Bn., C Btry. (Sept-Greensburg, PA)
Adam Coback, 404 Lee Dr., Baltimore, MD 21228 (301)
747-4604
506th AAA Gun Bn. (Sept-Marietta. OH) Dean Olin, 2413
Center Rd., Rt. 4, Ashtabula, OH 44004 (216) 969-1339
513th Engr. (LP) Co. (1942-45) (Aug-Madison, Wl) Edwin
Henke, N8452 Cty. F, Portage, Wl 53901 (608) 742-6492
551st Engrs. HP Bn. (WWII) (June-Williamsport, PA)
William Brink, Box 123, Picture Rock, PA 17762
555th Railhead Co. (WWII) (Apr-Scottsdale, AZ) R.B.
Spiekerman, 7930 E. Camelback Rd., #208, Scottsdale,
AZ 85251 (602)947-5308
556th Ord. HM (tk) Co. (WWII) (Aug-Ripley, WV) Pat
Deever, 3614 Cyress St., Parkersburg, WV 26101 (304)
485-5730
558th AAA AW Bn. (Sept-Allentown, PA) John Juretus,
1453 Lehigh Pky. So., Allentown, PA 18103 (215) 797lersburg,
OH
6352
591st Engr. Boat Rgt. (July) Everett Mills, Box 71,
Sublette, KS 67877 (316) 675-8261
608th Tank Destroyer Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Lancaster, PA)
Harry Rapp, 317 W. King St., Lancaster, PA 17603 (717)
394-7942
619th Engr. Base Equip. Co. (Sept-Washburn, ND)
Kenneth Secrest, Rt. 1, Box 72, Unadilla, NY 13849 (607)
563-3132
622nd Assn.
OH)
Mrs. Guiles Berry, 5207
W. Millington Rd., Millington, Ml 48746 (517) 871-2530
Div., C Btry. (Sept-Denver) Medford
Pettit, 1316 S. 9th St., Deming, NM 88030 (505) 546-
8582
627th T.D. Bn. (May-Painted Post, NY) Harry Sturdevant,
65-414 Estates, Beaver Dam, NY 14812 (607) 936-3143
631st Tank Destroyer Bn. (Aug-York, PA) Charles
Slenker, 12 S. Clinton St., West York, PA 17404 (717) 8547256
644th Tank Destroyer Bn. (June-Las Vegas, NV) Frank
Arieta, 129 E. Garibaloi Ave., Nesquehoning, PA 18240
(717) 669-9341
Tr.
Bn. (Aug-Milwaukee, Wl) Elmer Hallen,
Kewaskum, Wl 53040 (414) 626-2253
661st Tank Destroyer Bn. (Aug-Denver) William Beswick, Box 576, West Point, VA 23181 (703) 843-2696
692nd F.A. Bn., B Btry. (Sept-Brandon, MO) Warren
Knudsen, Rt. 1, Box 189. Willard, Wl 54493 (715) 2671161 Stark St.,
6710
704th Tank Destroyer Bn., 4th A.D. (July-Stamford, CT)
APRIL 1989
Schenker, 1823 Shady
Dr., Farrell, PA 16121
Ord. Maint. Co./Bn (Oct-Columbus, GA)
James Hembree, 20 Binks Dr., Clarksville, TN 37042
ABN
(615) 552-7761
Bn. (June-Laurel, MD) Joseph Selovich, 1909
Kenosha, Wl 53140 (414) 654-0517
728th Railway Oper. Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Gatlinburg, TN)
Fred Stucy, 307 S. Webster Ave., Indianapolis, IN 46219
(317) 359-0215
733rd Engr. Dpt. Co. (WWII) (Sept-Branson, MO)
35th
St.,
Thomas
Stockdill, 331 Bost Dr.,
West
Mifflin,
MP
Bn., Co. C (Sept-Milwaukee, Wl) Elmer Vopal,
2961 S. 44th St., Milwaukee, Wl 53219 (414) 545-1421
739th Heavy Shop Engrs. (Sept-Myrtle Beach, SC)
Arnold Frye, Rt. 5, Box 1359, Hickory, NC 28603 (704)
327-2222
746th AAA Gun Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Nashville, TN) George
Stewart, Box 495, Tonganoxie, KS 66086 (913) 845-2582
751 St Tank Bn. (Oct-Cleveland) William Barota, 15520
Greenway Rd. Cleveland, OH 44111 (216) 941 -7842
793rd AAA AW Bn. (Sept-Burlington, VT) Conrad
Peterson, 95 Colrain Rd., Shelburne, MA 01370 (413)
625-9414
793rd MP Bn. (1943-53) (Sept-Evansville, IN) Art
Sherokow, Rt. 1, Box 196C, Parsons, TN 38363 (901)
847-6230
808th Army Engrs. (Aug-Denver) Robert Hansen, 266
Thorndale Ave., Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 (312) 4370872
815th AVN Engrs. (WWII) (Sept-Kansas City, MO) John
Murphy, 3803 N.W. 62nd Terr., Kansas City, MO 64151
(816) 587-8387
817th AVN Engr. Bn. (Sept-Valley Forge, PA) Harry Ellis,
232 Auburn Ave. Atco, NJ 08004 (609) 767-3858
820th AVN Engr. Bn. (Aug-Scotts Bluff, NE) Joe Acker,
722 W. 25th St., Scotts Bluff, NE 69334 (308) 635-7479
872nd A/B AVN Engr. Bn. (May-Chicopee, MA) Joseph
Walker Jr.. 42 Royal Palm Cir., Largo, FL 34648 (813)
585-0465
885th Ord. Co. (Sept-Chicago) Reynolds Adducci. 10601
S.Homan, Chicago, IL 60655 (312) 238-5554
899th T.D. Bn., B/C/Recon?HQ (Sept-St. Louis) Stan
Horton, 218 Wooster Dr., St. Louis, MO 63135
906th FA Bn., 81st Div., A Btry. (Sept-Branson, MO)
Ervin Wassman, Rt. 1, Box 231. Ormsby, MN 56162 (507)
375-4659
989TH F.A. Bn. (Sept-Madison, IN) M E. Glenn, Rt. 5, Box
1, Madison, IN 47250 (812) 273-1625
1000th Engr.Tdwy. Bridge Co. (Sept-Philadelphia) Louis
Feraco, 502 Schoolhouse Ln., Willow Grove, PA 19090
(215) 657-2674
1021st Engr. Treadway Bridge Co. (Sept-Williamsburg,
VA) Carville Link, 1260 Locust Ave., Baltimore, MD
21227 (301)242-5338
1061st Engr. CP&R (July-Greenville, SC) John McNeely,
9190 Augusta Rd., Pelzer, SC 29669 (803) 235-6486
,
,
1289th Combat Engrs. (June-Jasper,
Theising, Box 113, Schnellville, IN
IN) Hilbert
47580 (812) 389-2523
1462nd Engr. Boat Maint. Co., 3rd E.S.B. (MayBradford, PA) Clayton Brown, box 280, Lodi, NY 14860
(607)
582 -6466
AVN Engr. Bn. (Elko Engrs) (June-South Bend,
IN) Victor Lechowicz, 719 Taylor Ave Avalon, PA 15202
(412)761-7592
1905th Engr. AVN Bn. (Aug-Oklahoma City, OK) John
Grapes, 704 S. Massachusetts, Cherokee, OK 73728
(405) 596-2444
2195th QM Trk. Ct. (1943-45) (May-Asheville, NC) Jess
Jamison, 239 Porter St., Franklin, NC 28734 (704) 5241896th
,
3509
3062nd
QM
Bakery (Aug-Des Moines,
Johnston, 1103 Dodge
St.,
IA)
William
Bedford, IA 50833 (712) 523-
2420
3469th Ord. (1942-45) (Aug-St. Paul, MN) Howard
Logan
St.,
West
St. Paul,
MN 55118 (612)
457-5304
3820th QM Gas Supply Co. (Aug-Mound City. MO)
Norman Smith. Rt. 2, Box 15, Oregon, MO 64473 (816)
446-3457
QM
Gas Supply Co. (Sept-Gatlinsburg, TN)
Charles Smith, Box 287, Stockport, OH 43787 (614) 5592601
Ex-Elgin Field Wartime WACs (June-New Orleans, LA)
Alice McConnell, 43387 Hwy. 621, Gonzales, LA 70737
3840th
SC 29587
(803) 238-2411
Yokohama
Engr. Dpt. Detach. C (July-Lawrenceville.
PA) Walter Williams, Rt. 2, Box 154, Lawrenceville, PA
16929(717)827-2773
PA 15122
(412)466-2591
738th
Beach,
San Francisco Port of Embarkation V-Mail Sta. (JuneTulsa, OK) Max Doty, 5255 S. Irvington PL, Tulsa, OK
74135(918)622-5384
MP
720th
Schletz, 165 W.
(Sept. -Dayton,
625th FA Bn., 40th
658th Amph.
Sam
711th
(504) 647-1630
First Spec. Serv.
Navy
6th Dist. Shore Patrol (WWII) (June-Columbia, SC)
Harold Ross, 1136 Broadview Blvd., Brackenridge, PA
15014 (412) 224-2881
29th Seabee Bn. (Aug-Chicago) Jim Arcaro, 115 Majestic
Dr., Lombard, IL 60148 (312) 932-8037
35th NCB (Sept-Columbia, SC) Phil Silver, 924 Stafford
Ct., Westbury, NY 11590 (516) 334-3424
64th NCB (July-Charlotte/Fort Mill) Ernie Reynolds, 3403
Westmont Dr., Aiken, SC 29801 (803) 648-5759
76th NCB (Sept-Jacksboro, TX) C.C. Duncan, Box 174,
Perrin, TX 76075 (817) 654- 1536
123rd NCB (Aug-Arlington, VA) Ed Widmayer, 13307 Fox
Hall Dr., Silver Springs. MD 20906 (301 942-8988
135th NCB (WWII) (Apr-Nashville. TN) Jack Pilkington,
Box 176, Riverside, AL 35135 (205) 884-4867
Acorn 34 (Aug-Danvers, MA) Nicholas Markos, 14 Cedar
View Rd., Ipswich, MA 01938 (508) 356-5216
Battle of Ormoc Bay (USS Moale/Sumner/Cooper)
(Sept-Norfolk, VA) Russ Catardi, 513 County Line Rd.,
Hatboro, PA 19040 (215) 675-0230
CBMU 568 (Sept-Salt Lake City, UT) Theodore Stahl, 18
W. Prairie Ave., Lombard, IL 60148 (312) 627-5805
CBMU 569 (Sept-Salt Lake City, UT) O.K. Larson, 711
Stanwich Ln., St. Paul, MN 55118 (612) 454-5943
Covered Wagon Assn. (Oct-San Jose, CA) Earl Dixon,
1075-275 Space Park Way, Mt. View, CA 94043 (415)
968-5172
NALF Crows Landing (May-Crows Landing. CA) Jim
Lint, NALF Crows Landing, Crows Landing, CA 95313
(209) 837-4781
Naval Weather Serv. Assn. (June-Carmel, CA) NWSA
15th Reunion, Box 8662 NPS, Monterey, CA93943 (408)
649-0109
NMCB 9 (June-Port Hueneme, CA) Richard Casoli, Box
88, Hanson, MA 02341 (617)293-7212
P.T. Boats Inc. (Aug-Omaha, NE) Alyce Guthrie, Box
38070, Memphis, TN 38183 (901 755-8440
Piney Point Nav. Test Range (WWII) (July-Piney Point.
MD) Marty Benson. 626 E. Crescent Dr., Vineland, NJ
08360 (609) 696-1977
Torpedo Sq. 24 (June-New Orleans, LA) Edward Dwyer.
N10836 Rainbow Terr., Fox Lake, Wl 53933 (414) 9282731
U.S. LSTAssn. (Aug-Pittsburgh) U.S. LST Assn., Box
)
)
OH 43623
A.B.S.D. 4 (Aug-San Antonio, TX)
Box 1012, Cedar Hill, TX 75104 (214) 291
USS American Legion APA 17 (WWII)
phia) John Zuella, 268 Scott Rd., #9,
06705 (203) 757-0478
8769, Toledo,
USS
USS Amsterdam CL
(Sept-Philadel-
Waterbury,
CT
101 (Sept-King of Prussia, PA) Leon
Stewart Sr., 124 Township Line Rd., Exton, PA 19341
(215)363-7927
USS Amycus ARL 2 (June-Reno, NV) Pablo Escobedo,
1556 W. 1st St., Mesa, AZ 85201 (602) 964-8422
USS Atlanta CL 51/Juneau CL 52 (Oct-Gloucester, MA)
W.B. McKinney, 49 Newmarch St., Ipswich, MA 01938
(508) 356-3775
USS Bagley DD 386 (Sept-St. Louis) Walter Morley, Box
608, West Dennis, MA 02670 (508) 398-8553
USS Baham AG 71 (Sept-Charleston, SC) George Usher,
Box 41, Springfield, GA 31329 (912) 754-6930
USS Bainbridge DD 246 (Aug-Mercer, PA) Ed Loreno,
PA 16125 (412) 588-7355
E Div. (Sept-Kansas City, MO)
Ray Radus, 4408 Gateway Dr., Monroeville, PA 15146
3888
S.
Main
St.,
USS Bairoko CVE
Greenville,
115,
(412)327-5251
USS Barnett APA
5 (June-Norfolk, VA) John Kolstad,
2213 Ming Ave., Bakersfield, CA 93304 (805) 831 -6038
USS Belet APD 109 (Sept-Indianapolis) FA. Weaver, Box
696, Galveston, IN 46932 (219) 699-6094
Belleau Wood CVL 24 & Air
Diego) Robert Ross, 2732 South
48750(517) 739-2182
Force (Aug-Edmonton, Alberta, Can.)
William Story, 11815 Quarter Horse Ct., Oakton, VA
22124(703) 620-5990
Ft. Kamehameha, HI (All Units/1932-42) (JuneLexington, KY) D M. Cooper, Box 142, Glen Dale, WV
USS
26038 (304) 845-0880
HQ V Corps Vets Assn. (Sept-South Bend, IN) Harold
Lomax, 16388 Jackson, Mishawaka, IN 46544 (219)
USS Bridge
255-4621
Regt. Reserve Liaison Detach. -OSS, 1st ECAD (SeptMyrtle Beach, SC) Edward Field, Box 15404. Surfside
Luis Malavear,
-6555
Groups (Aug-San
US 23, Oscoda, Ml
USS Boston CA 69/CAG 1/SSN 703 (July-Nashua, NH)
USS Boston Assn.. Box 816, Amherst, NH 03031
(Sept-Ouray, CO) Floyd Burkdoll, 1040
Howard St., Delta, CO 81416 (303) 874-9478
USS Brush DD 745 (Sept-Asheville, NC) Quenton Miller,
309 Fayette Davis Ave., Cleveland, MS 38732 (601 8435572
USS Canberra CA 70 (WWII) (Sept-Boston) P.J.
)
37
Veterans alert
McLaughlin, 519 N.
Adams
St.,
Lincoln, IL
62656
(217)
Carroll APA 28 (Sept-New Orleans, LA)
Milton Smith Jr., 1818 Crescent Dr., St. Joseph, MO
64506(816)279-8728
Clay APA 39, Elizabeth C. Stanton PA 69 (SeptLaCrosse, Wl) John Brass, 403 E. 330th St., Willowick,
OH 44094 (216) 943-2079
USS
USS Coghlan DD 606
Tanquary, 147 N.
(Sept-Portland, OR) Patrick
Englewood, FL 34223 (813)
Fiji Cir.
,
475-6413
USS Dennis
Buckley DD (R) 808 (Apr-Charleston,
SC) Charles Black, Box 1301, Little Rock, AR 72203
(501
)
J.
663-6096
USS
Detroit (Sept-San Francisco) John McGoran, 105
Dr., Corte Madera, CA 94925 (415) 924-3604
USS Dobbin AD 3 (Dewey, MacDonough, Worden)
(Sept-Dallas) Clarence Rudd, 1347 N.W. Hartford,
Bend, OR 97701 (503)389-4919
USS Drayton DD 366 (WWII) (June-Pensacola, FL)
Robert Foster. 619 N. Wheeler Ave., Inverness, FL
Granada
32650 (904) 344-4464
City) Archie
Pineda, 2117 N. Warren Ave., Oklahoma City, OK 73107
(405) 948-6185
USS Eldorado (1944-72) (Sept-Baltimore) Frank Ducker,
3670 Clarenell Rd., Baltimore. MD 21229
Ellyson DD 54/DMS 19 (Oct-lndianapolis) James
Galbreth, 8927 Carriage Ln., Indianapolis, IN 46256
USS
(317) 849-3315
USS Enterprise CV-6 & Air Grps. Aug-Norfolk, VA) H.W.
Childress, 4143 Ewell Pt. Rd., Virginia Beach, VA 23455
(804)464-1970
USS Finch DE 328 (Sept-Charleston, SC) Robert
Stevens, 409 Dellwood St., Tilton, IL 61833 (217) 4424602
USS Florence Nightingale AP 70 (Oct-Charleston. SC)
Jack Schmude, 957 Woods Run Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
15212(412)766-8097
USS Gambier Bay CVE 73/VC 10 (Taffy III Included)
(Sept-Milwaukee, Wl) Charles Heinl, 8329 St. Rt. 119.
(
OH 45860
USS Gayety AM 239 (Sept-Louisville,
Maria Stein,
5007 W. 63rd
3983
Terr., Prairie Village,
KY) Bud Zeckser,
(913) 432-
KS 66208
USS Gemsbok
IX 117 (Sept-Jackson, MS) A.J. Libbey,
Oak Park Dr., Pearl, MS 39208 (601 939-1315
USS Gendreau DE 639 (Sept-Charleston, SC) W. Earl
116
)
2006 Winter Haven
Dr.,
Imperial,
MO 63052 (314)
464-5251
USS Gherardi DD 637/DMS
30 (May-Clearwater, FL)
Richard Herr. 10874 S.W. 87th Terr., Ocala, FL 32676
(904) 854-2059
USS Goshen APA 108 (Apr-Fredericksburg, TX) Ollie
Schaetter, Box 489, Fredericksburg, TX 78624 (512)
997-2151
USS Gurnard SS 254 (Aug-Reno, NV) Tom Rittenhouse,
1252 Main St., No. Huntingdon, PA 15642 (412) 863-
6459
USS Hamilton DD141/DMS18
Bernard Naschauer.
Rt.11,
(Sept-Houston, TX)
Box 333. Roanoke. VA 24019
(703) 977-2602
USS Hammann DD412/Gansevoort DD 608
Diego) Clyde Conner,
Rt.
1,
Box
Grafton,
1,
(Oct-San
WV 26354
(304) 265-3933
USS Heermann DD 532 (May-Long
Beach, CA) Jack
Woolworth, 13291 Jasperson Way, Westminster, CA
92683
USS Helena, USS Benham FG9/CL50/CA75/SSN725/
DD397 (Aug-Helena, MT) Bill Bunker, 596A W. Huntington Dr., Arcadia, CA 91006 (818) 446-7361
USS Horace A. Bass APD 124 (June-San Diego) Charles
Kunick, 2840 Bamboo Dr., Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403
(602) 855-3563
USS Howard F. Clark DE 533 (Sept-Charleston, SC)
George Neldon, 1508 N. Franklin, Litchfield, IL 62056
USS Hunt DD 674 (Sept-Lansing, Ml) Al Bailey, 85 Van
Liew Ave., Milltown, NJ 08850 (201 828-0796
USS Hyperion AK 107 (May-Broken Bow, OK) Dick
Nelson, HCR 61, Box 25B, Lemoyne, NE 69146 (308)
726-2297
USS Independence CVL 22 (Aug-Reno, NV) Charles
Horth Jr., 200 W. San Bernardino Ave., Sp. 117, Rialto,
CA 92 3 76 714 874-68 49
USS Indiana BB 58 Assn. (Marines Included) (Aug-Fall
River, MA) Albert Vicarelli, Box 620, Cutchogue, NY
11935(516)734-5001
USS Ingersoll DD 652/990 (July-St. Louis) Charles Bass.
560 Cypress Ln., St. Marys, GA 31558 (912) 882-3589
USS Jeffers DD 621 /DMS 27 (Sept-Baltimore) Warren
Hilton, 209 S. Hall St., Morrison, IL 61270 (815) 772-2422
USS John D. Henley DD 553 (May-Galveston, TX) Frank
Pace, 713 Carriage Ln., Nederland, TX 77627 (409) 727)
(
)
7001
USS Kalmia ATO
23 (Sept-Portland, ME) John Branin,
947 Haverford Rd., Ramona, CA 92065 (619) 788-0958
USS Kanawha AO 1 (Sept-St. Louis)Thomas O'Neill, 504
Dennis Dr., Marshalltown, IA 50158 (515) 752-7231
38
331 (Aug-Nashville, TN) J.H. McCrabb,
St., Reading, PA 19601 (215) 374-0489
USS Kretchmer DE 329 (Sept-St. Cloud, MN) Burton
Hanauer, Box 54, Avon, MN 56310
USS Laffey DD 724 (Apr-Pleasant, SC) J.C. Phillips, 2521
S.E. 60th, Ocala, FL 32671
USS Lake Champlain CV 39 (June-Ellenville, NY)
Francis Rozboril, 122 Greenridge St., Johnson City, NY
13790 (607) 797-9374
USS Lang DD 399 (Aug-New Orleans) A G. Weber, 826
Greenbelt St., Houston, TX 77079 (713) 493-1219
USS LCI (FF) 786 (Sept-Davenport. IA) Kenneth Bowen,
1921 N. Howell, Davenport, IA 52804 (319) 323-4527
USS LCI (G) 470 (July-Sewickley, PA) Bernard Ingram,
260 Camilla St., Baden, PA 15005 (412) 869-3440
USS LSM 107 (Aug-Minneapolis, MN) George Seifert. 801
N. Griffin St. Bismarck, ND 58501 (701 223-5075
USS LSM 333 (WWII) (Sept-Lebanon Jet., KY) K.C. Fehl,
Airport Rd.. Rt. 1, Box 79, Lebanon Jet., KY 40150 (502)
)
.
833-4958
USS LST 1029
Box
USS Dunlap DD 384 (Sept-Oklahoma
Price,
USS Koiner DE
435 Greenwich
732-7573
USS Charles
(Sept-LaCrosse, Wl) Sidney Quail,
145, Mindoro,
USS LST 240
State Rd.
1.
Wayne
46788
Spencerville, IN
USS LST 388
Rt.
1,
Wl 54644 (608) 857-3047
(Aug-Pittsburgh)
Rosselot, 15925
(219)
627-6224
(Aug-Pittsburgh) Paul Roberts, 2907 Valley
McKeesport, PA 15133 (412) 672-2272
(Aug-Las Vegas, NV) George Heard, Box
MS 39327 (601 635-3227
USS LST 496 (Aug-Pittsburgh) Joe Sandor, Box 1926.
Hobe Sound, FL 33475 (407) 546-3733
USS LST 574 (Sept-Evansville, IN) Stanley Wallace, 1649
Carolina Dr., Rantoul, IL 61866 (217) 893-1686
USS LST 584 (Aug-Pittsburgh, PA) Leo Hildebrand, 1461
N.W. 106th St., Des Moines, IA 50322 (515)226-0306
USS LST 651 (May-Akron, OH) Robert Frey, Rt. 3, Box
220, Cogan Station, PA 17728 (717) 494-0567
USS LST 699 (Aug-Pittsburgh) Oren Knapp, 77 Oneida
St., Oneonta, NY 13820 (607) 432-1392
USS LST 757 (June-Nashville, TN) John Stephens, 658
St..
USS LST 460
54, Decatur,
)
Cumberland
Hendersonville,
Hills Dr.,
TN 37075
(615)
822-1675
USS McGowan DD 678 (Sept-Norfolk, VA) Don Rogers.
30 Hurd St., Lynn, MA 01905 (617) 595-1137
USS McNair DD 679 (Aug-Lexington, KY) Gene Mul7026 Steinmeier
255-7002
barger,
(317)
Dr. W.,
Indianapolis, IN
46220
USS Measure AM 263
(May-St. Louis) Warren Bergman,
621 Giffhorn, Columbia, IL 62236 (618) 281 -4587
USS Meredith DD 434
(June) Robert Robinson, 6804
Totem Beach Loop, Marysville, WA 98270 (206) 6593490
USS Monrovia APA 31 (Oct-Charleston, SC) Hilton Dana,
3799 S. Banana River Blvd. #507, Cocoa Beach, FL
32931 (407) 784-0619
Montpelier CL 57 (Sept-Myrtle Beach, SC) George
Scully, 745 Thomas St.. Elizabeth. NJ 07202 (201 355-
USS
)
0877
USS Mount Vernon AP 22
Ramos, 536
4th St.,
(Apr-Las Vegas, NV) A G
Imperial Beach, CA 92032 (619)
424-7515
8619 Villa Crest
Dr., St.
(Sept-Pittsburgh)
Louis.
LeRoy
Miller.
MO 63126 (314) 842-1806
USS North
Carolina Assn. (Oct-Wilmington, NC) Bill
Box 654, Omalaska, TX 77360 (409) 646-3961
USS Northampton CA 26 (Oct-Orlando, FL) George
Allen, 3213 Wiley Ave.. Melbourne, FL 32901 (407) 7278027
USS Octans AF 26 (July-Buffalo, NY) Mike Rosella. 71
Bentley Ave., Old Bridge, NJ 08857 (201 251 -5263
Taylor,
)
USSPandemusARL18/LST650(Sept-Elkhart. IN) Ethel
Noble, Rt. 2, Box 331, Pendleton, IN 46064 (317) 7783277
USS PC 793
(Sept-Portland.
Lawrence Switch
422-5795
ME) Joseph
Rd.. Rt. 4, Jackson,
Wilkinson. 461
TN 38305
Jonesboro,
IL
90638(714)521-1371
USS Rotanin AK
1119 Brookside
108 (Aug-Duluth, MN) Dale Bullock,
Greensburg, PA 15601 (412) 836-
Dr..
4285
USS Saginaw
SC)
Earl
Bay, CVE 82, VC 78/88 (Oct-Charleston,
Homman, 4220 Old Mill Rd., Lancaster, OH
43130(614) 654-1651
Salute AM 294 (June-Tulsa. OK) James Johnston,
Rt. 1, Box 183, Ainsworth, IA 52201 (319) 657-2263
USS Sanders DE 40 (June-Bremerton, WA) Lawrence
Olson, 926 Dwight St., Port Orchard, WA 98366 (206)
895-3271
USS
USS Santee CVE
29, AO 29, 24/26/29th Sqdns. (JulyKnoxville, TN) Bill Walsh, 205 S. 16th St., Denison, IA
51442 (712)263-2737
USS Sargo SSN 583 (Plankowners) (Sept-Vallejo, CA)
M.D. Rolow, 15368 Landmark Ct.. Jacksonville, FL
32226(904)751-4636
USS SC 660 (June-Cincinnati) Harry Ernst, 1138 Cherevilla Ln., Cincinnati, OH 45238 (513) 471-5363
USS Shea DM 30 (Sept-St. Simon Island, GA) Ernest
Dyal, 1100 William St., McRae, GA31055 (912) 868-6120
USS Sicard DM 21 (WWII) (Sept-Louisville, KY) Ovie
Vernon, 2121 N. Greenwood St., Pueblo, CO 81003 (719)
544-1080
USS Soley DD 707 (May-Norfolk, VA) Jim Cowardin, 1407
Westbrook Ave., Richmond, VA 23227 (804) 266-4308
USS Somers DD 381 (May-Ft. Lauderdale, FL) R.H.
Patterson, 1424 S.E. 15th St., #24, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
33316(305)527-1255
USS Straub DE 181 (Sept-Charleston, SC) Charles
Kohler, 38 S. Golfwood Ave., Carneys Point, NJ 08069
(609) 299-2041
USSTambor SS 198 (Aug-Sparks, NV) Thomas Lampley,
3876 S. Adams Rd., Ravenna, Ml 49451 (616) 853-6986
USS Terror CM5 (Oct-Orlando, FL) Kent Leeper, 700
Melrose Ave., M23, Winter Park, FL 32789 (407) 6442519
USS Tillman DD 641 (Sept-Annapolis, MD) Bill Wenzel,
2185 Beaumont Ave. N.W., Massillion, OH 44646 (216)
833-5809
USS Wharton AP 7 (Oct-Charleston, SC) Charlie Brown,
405D Hermitage Dr., Danville, VA 24541 (804)791-3916
USS Whitman DE 24 (Sept-Charleston, SC) J R. Corbin,
36 Rypma Row., New Whiteland, IN 46184 (317) 5358188
USS Wickes DD 578 (Sept-Wichita, KS) Ed Arzinger, 6212
Millsboro Dr.. Wichita, KS 67219 (316) 744-0590
USS Willis DE 395 (WWII) (June-Annapolis, MD) John
Gay, 791 Paul Birch Dr., Box 28, Crownsville, MD 21032
(301)923-2280
USS Winged Arrow AP 170 (June-Wichita, KS) Raymond
Meyer, 206 N.E. Elm, Greenfield. IA 50849 (515) 3437130
USS Y.D.G. 7 (Sept-Bristol, Rl) James Oliveira, 28
Anthony Ave., Bristol, Rl 02809 (401 253-8726
VB 18 (Oct-Portland, OR) Charles Draper, 2411 S. Waverly
Dr., Albany, OR 97321 (503) 926-2064
VB-108 (Nov-Pensacola, FL) Robert Strong, 1308 Sunrise
Dr., No. Ft. Myers, FL 33917 (813) 995-4336
VC 5 (Sept-NAS Moffett Field, CA) James Schnver, 2879
Barkley Ave., Santa Clara, CA 95051 (408) 296-5450
VMF 312 (1943-45) (Sept-Phoenix, AZ)T.L. Smith, 10621
E. Michigan Ave., Sun Lake, AZ 85248 (602) 895-6844
VP 11 (f), VP 54 (1936-42), VP 51/VB/VPB 101, PATSU 12, CASU (f) 56 (Sept- Charleston, SC) John Lemley, 340
Locust St.. Huntington, WV 25705 (304) 523-6208
VRF/VRS 1, ACU (Officers) (Oct-Pensacola, FL) J.L
Thompson, 135 Erin Cir., Zephyrhills, FL 34248 (813)
788-6367
(901
Pennsylvania (July-Memphis. TN) Jess Dennis.
Memphis, TN 38127 (901 357-0263
86 (Aug) Mel Ketchum, 3361
Fronda Dr., San Jose. CA 95148 (408) 238-0666
USS Porter DD 800 (Sept-Charleston, SC) Alan Jenkins,
340 Andover Blvd. N.E., Anoka. MN 55304
USS Princeton CVL 23 (WWII) (Sept-Denver) Sam
Minervini, 251 Marlboro Rd.. Wood Ridge, NJ 07056
(201) 935-6125
USS Pringle DD 477 (Oct-San Diego) William Herman,
1427 Woodbridge Rd., Baltimore, MD 21228 (301) 7885829
USS Pyro AE 1/24 (Sept-Dubuque, IA) Paul Simon, 52
Bluff St., Dubuque, IA 52001 (319) 583-9985
USS R.A. Owens DDE 827 (July-Norfolk, VA) Jim Holden,
315 Margaret Ave., Baltimore, MD 21221 (301)687-9388
3053
Birchfield Dr.,
)
USS Ponaganset AO
USS Ramapo AO
son. Rt.
1,
12 (Aug-Minneapolis, MN) J.E. AnderMN 56117 (507) 376-4630
APA 226 (Oct-New Orleans, LA) Henry
Box
USS Rawlins
55, Bigelow,
Brinkmann, 924 Rosa Ave., Metairie, LA 70005 (504)
833-4114
USS
(Sept-Dallas) Don Fahlberg, Box
62952 (618) 833-7150
USS Ross DD 563/Tug Chickasaw ATF 83 (Oct-Las
Vegas, NV) D.F. Cox, 14552 Florita Rd., LaMirada, CA
41,
)
USS New Mexico BB 40
USS
USS Robinson DD 562
Rinehart
Cedar Dr., Rt.
DE 196
3,
(Sept-Charleston. SC) John Kirk,
Piedmont,
SC 29673
(803) 295-1203
Army Air Forces
1st Strat. Air Dpt. Assn., 8th A.F. (Honington.Eng/
WWII) (Sept-San Antonio, TX) Warren Stanley, 3207
Myles Ct. #3, San Jose, CA 95117 (408) 248-8627
3rd Strat. Air Dpt., 8th AF (Watton, Eng.) (July-Denver)
W.S. Noble, 7266 Goodwood, Baton Rouge, LA 70806
(504) 925-8454
Cont. Sq. (Oct-Hardin, KY) Franklin Bunnell, 25
Ft. Myers, FL 33912 (813) 481-2787
Grp. (WWII) (Sept-Minneapolis, MN) Alex
Adair, 817 N.E. 91st St., Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 523-
8th
Ftr.
SalutCt.,
12th
Bomb
7954
12th Tact. Recon. Sq. (Sept-Charlotte, NC) Marshall
Pratt, 1636 Lombardy Cir., Charlotte, NC 28203 (704)
334-0378
18th Dpt. Supply Sq./Air Supply Div. (Aug-Eufaula, AL)
Thomas Jones, Rt. 2, Box 70E, Eufaula. AL 36027 (205)
687-6337
Veterans alert
27th Air Dpt. Grp. (Attach. Units) (June-Amarillo, TX)
Cleo Russell, Clarendon, TX 79266 (806) 874-5056
27th Recon. Sq. (L/R) (Borinquen Field/1939-42) (OctAtlantic City, NJ) John D'Andriole. 5604 Twin Ln., Ft.
Worth, TX 76114 (817) 738-0910
33rd Photo Recon. Sq. (Sept-Colorado Springs, CO)
Walter Olick, 613 Columbine St., Sterling, CO 80751
(303) 522-3924
45th Serv. Gp., 5th AF, HQ & HQ Sq. (WWII) (JulyCheboygan, Ml) Russell Abernathy, 205 North D St.,
Cheboygan, Ml 49721 (616) 627-5782
47th Bomb Grp., 12th AF (May-Sicily/Italy) Costa
Chalas, 67Trapelo Rd., Belmont, MA 02178 (617) 484-
5620
50th Air Serv. Sq., 15th
AF (WWII) (Sept-Cape
Girar-
MO)
Vincent Miget Jr., Rt. 6, Box 127, Jackson,
MO 63755 (314) 243-8201
58th Bomb Wing Assn. (B-29's-lndia/China/Tinian)
(Aug-Norfolk, VA) John Roman Jr., 106 Cassidy Ct.,
Cary, NC 27511 (919) 469-3436
74th Trp. Carrier Sq. (Sept-Monterey, CA) Albert Todd,
3700 W. Barstow, #140, Fresno, CA 93711 (209) 2751950
79th Trp. Carrier Sq., 436th T.C. Grp., HQ, 806th
M.A.E.S. (WWII) (June- Amherst, NY) Roger Airgood,
1635 N. 12th St., Lafayette, IN 47904 (317) 742-0357
80th Trp. Carrier Sq. (Oct-Omaha, NE) Gilbert Vogt, 6044
Oakcrest Plaza, Omaha, NE 68137 (402) 895-0440
89th Serv. Sq. (June-Mobile, AL) Gerald McDade, 383
Cabana Blvd. #103, Mobile, AL 36609 (205) 343-2752
115th Liaison Sq. (June-Jackson, Ml) Max Hitchkin, 8475
Luttenton, Concord, Ml 49237 (517) 524-8817
319th Bomb Grp. (Oct-Branson, MO) Joseph Madrano,
8308 Springtown, Converse, TX 78109 (512) 659-4237
deau,
320th A/B FA Bn., HQ & HQ Btry. (Camp Wood, Japan/
1955-56) (Oct-Nashville. TN) Rodger Jacobson, 2205
Elm St., Box 14, Hazel Green, Wl 53811 (608) 854-2317
369th HQ Sq., 20th AF, (Guam) 369th, 2nd AF (US)
(Sept-Gettysburg, PA) Landis Ickes, Box 252, Osterburg, PA 16667 (814) 276-3629
421st Night Ftr. Sq. (Sept-Niagara Falls, NY) Lawrence
Neville, 8921 Champlain Ave., Niagara Falls, NY 14304
(716) 283-5789
485th Bomb Grp., 828/829/830/831 st Sqs. (Sept-San
Antonio, TX) Robert Deeds, 4643 286th St., Toledo, OH
43611 (419)726-0650
490th Bomb Sq. (Burma Bridge Busters) (JuneSeattle, WA) H.H. Craven Jr., 1060 89th N.E., Bellevue,
WA 89004 (206) 746-9789
507th Ftr. Grp. Assn (Sept-St. Louis) William Jenner, 307
Alma, O'Fallon, IL 62269 (618) 632-5459
Bomb. & Gunnery Range Sq. (Avon Park, FL) (OctOrlando, FL) Chester Kanach, Fruitville Rd., Rt. 3,
Pottstown, PA 19464 (215) 287-8269
Burtonwood Assn. (Oct-Dayton, OH) Wally Baldwin,
6467 Locust Ln., Franklin, OH 45005 (513) 442-4973
Detach. 14, 909th QM Co. AVN Serv. (Aug-St. Louis) LF.
Parsons, Box 5, Thornton, TX 76687 (817) 385-6452
Tow Target Detach., 72nd OBS Grp. (Panama CZ/194145) (Sept-Dayton, OH) Bus Bonucchi, 534 N. 10th St.,
Clinton, IN 47842 (317) 832-8514
Wheeler Field (Territory of HI, Circa/1941) (Nov-Ft.
Myers, FL) Paul Bemis, 9693 Baycrest Terr., Lehigh
Acres, FL 33936 (813) 369-9234
WWII Air Cmd. Assn., 2nd, 3rd Grps. (Oct-lndianapolis)
W.R. Eason, Rt. 1. Box 28, Orange, VA 22960 (703) 6724074
Air Force
26th Service Sq. (Sept-Fairborn, OH) Robert Hunter, 820
Hilltop Ln., Logansport, IN 46947 (219) 753-9517
29th Bomb Gp., 6th Bomb Sq., 314th Bomb Wing, 20th
AF,
Armament (Guam)
(Oct- Nashville,
TN) William
Stuart, 1535 Lascassas Hwy. E74, Murfreesboro, TN
37130
53rd Ftr. Grp. (WWII) (May-Tampa, Fl) Elmer Johnson,
1 81 5 S. E 6th Terr. Cape Coral FL 33990 (81 3) 574-4044
76th Military Airlift Sq. (May-Charleston, SC) Tom
Powell, Box 61101, No. Charleston, SC 29419
97th Bomb Grp. (H) (Oct-Clearwater, FL) Harry Alsaker,
1308 Jackson St., Missoula, MT 59802 (406) 543-5388
107th TFG (ANG) (June-Niagara Falls, NY) Frank McKee,
107 FIG, Niagara Falls Int'l Airport, Niagara Falls, NY
14304 (716) 236-2424
112th Liaison Sq. (May-San Antonio, TX) Robert
Pfaffenberger, 38702 W. Menlo #1, Hemet, CA 92343
(714) 929-4380
307th Bomb Wing, B47/KC97 Assn. (May-Lincoln, NE)
Aulden Stewart, 3028 Cable Ave., Lincoln, NE 68502
(402) 483-1044
314th TCW/TAW (1950-Present) (May-Nashville, TN)
Bart McCarthy, 361 Monaco Dr., Hermitage, TN 37076
(615) 885-3689
319th FIS (Bunker Hill), 5th FIS (Minot. ND) (Nov-
Boone, NC) Joyce Kettenhoffen, 231 Sun Valley, 14530
N. Florida Ave., Tampa, FL 33613 (813) 962-1751
374th Food Sv. Sq. (Japan/1951-54) (June-St. Louis)
Jim O'Loughlin, 5555 Heintz Rd. #10, Oakville, MO
63129 (314) 846-7070
459th Ftr. Sq. (June-San Jose, CA) Wayne Sneddon, Box
117, Pilot Hill, CA 95664 (916) 885-6028
820th Bomb Sq., 41 st Bomb Grp. (WWII) (May-Dayton,
OH) William Childs, 3637 Patsy Ann Dr., Richmond, VA
23234 (804) 275-6012
6147th Tact. Cont. Grp. (Mosquitoes) (July-Albuquerque, NM) Ken Beckstrom, 4216 Penelope PI. N.E.,
Albuquerque, NM 87109 (505) 881 -7649
A.F. Security Police Assn. (Aug-Orlando, FL) Jerry
Bullock, 28 Willow Creek Cir., San Marcos, TX 78666
(512) 396-5444
AFLC/GEEIA-MDA (Aug-Oklahoma City, OK) Sophia
Bronson, 13501 S.E. 29th St., Box 83, Choctaw, OK
73020 (405) 736-2511
Boiling B-25 Bunch (May-Kerrville, TX) Wyn Hammons,
2756 Nele Rd., Kissimmee, FL 32743 (407) 348-0289
Martin Provisional Grp. Assn. (Sept-San Francisco)
William Heller, Box 3006, Half Moon Bay, CA 94019 (415)
726-6686
RAF Croughton AS/England (June-Milwaukee, Wl)
Richard Kao, 3777 S. 15th PI., Milwaukee, Wl 53221
USS Rhodes DE 384 (Sept-New
Marines
381-2019
National Order of Battlefield Commissions (Sept-Las
Vegas, NV) A.F. Warnecke, 1916 Catawba St., Fayet-
AR
72501 (501)793-3633
1st Bn., 5th Mar., B Co. (Baker Bandits/Korea) (MayQuantico, VA) Emmett Shelton Jr., 808 Caravan Cir.,
Austin, TX 78746 (512) 327-1305
2nd & 3rd War Dog Pltns. (Oct-Orlando, FL) Ray
Tomaszewski, 1620 W. 21st St., Lorain, OH 44052 (216)
245-6432
2nd Bn., 4th Mar., 3rd Div., Echo Co. (June-Williamsburg, VA) Warren Howe, Rt. 1, Box 324, Star Prairie,
Wl 54026 (715) 248-3340
2nd Ptn., 2nd Bn., 5th Mar. Rgt., 1st Div. (JuneHarrisburg, PA) Bart Dauberman, 301 Clearwater Dr.,
Goose Creek, SC 29445 (803) 553-4677
4th Marine Div. (WWII) (June-Las Vegas, NV) Bernard
Shaffman, Ocean Club #501, 4020 Gait Ocean Dr., Ft.
Lauderdale, FL 33066 (305) 566-7453
6th Amph. Tractor Bn., 1st Mar. Div. (Peleliu/1944)
(Aug-Boston) J.I. Fitzgerald, 42 Irving St., Boston, MA
02114
12th Defense Bn. (July-Seattle, WA) Joseph Floberg,
2135 N. 52nd St., Seattle, WA 98103 (206) 633-2890
24th Marines, H&S Co. (WWII) (Sept-Burnsville, MN)
Merlyn Sellers, 105 18th St. N.W., Austin, MN 55912
All Marines & Persons Attach, to Marine Units (Aug-
Youngstown, OH) W.R. Simon, 2268 Innwood
Dr.,
Youngstown, OH 44515 (216) 792-0003
Mar. Air Warn. Sq. 11 (Sept-Colorado Springs, CO)
Joseph Nowak, 5910 Warren Rd., Ann Arbor, Ml 48105
(313) 663-0274
Marine Barracks NTC (Great Lakes) (Sept-Chicago)
Earl Shanahan, 37217 N. Capillo, Lake Villa, IL 60046
(312) 356-6809
Marine Barracks, Annapolis, MD (1966-72) (AugAnnapolis, MD) Chet Emrick, 1708A Shady Side Dr.,
Edgewater, MD 21037 (301 ) 956-5252
Marine Scout & Torp. Bomb Sqs. 232 & 143 (WWI)
(Sept-Philadelphia) George France, 861 Old Lincoln
Hwy., Langhorne, PA 19047 (215) 757-5352
VMB 611 Sq. (Oct-St. Louis) Gilbert DeBlois, 9904
Stoughton Rd., Fairfax, VA 22032 (703) 273-2197
VMF 124 (Sept-Colorado Springs, CO) Robert Erskine,
1624 Karen St., Lima, OH 45801 (419) 228-8951
VMF 311 (July-Strasburg, PA) Paul Goldberg, 627
Wayland Rd., Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462 (215) 825-
2454
,
APRIL 1989
Assn. of Aviation Ordnancemen (June-Reno, NV)
Gerald Gannon, 1245 Cunningham Ave., St. Charles.
MO 63301
Coast Guard
Coast Guard
(All
WA 98011
(206)
Wars/Grenada/Persian Gulf)
(July-
Baltimore) Baker Herbert, 6858 Lafayette Rd., Medina,
OH 44256 (216) 725-6527
USS Cavalier APA 37 (WWII)
DePompei, 3000 Marmore
(June-Cleveland) Ulysses
Ave., Parma,
946-0503
47712(812)425-6464
Bataan & Corregidor Survivors (Other Far East EXPows) (Aug-Fontana Dam, NC) Wayne Carringer, Box
46, Robbinsville.
NC
28771 (704) 479-6205
Chosin Few (Mid-States) (July-Dearborn, Ml) Raeburn
Davis, 4509 Pelham, Dearborn Hts., Ml 48125 (313) 5614011
Farragut Naval Trng. Sta. (Sept-Athol, ID) Marsden
Warren, 2773 S. Dutton, Santa Rosa, CA 95407 (707)
546-7449
Forgotten Boys of Iceland (June-Monticello, NY) Marty
Davidson, 33 Althea Rd., Randolph, MA 02368 (617)
963-1503
Korean War Vets (Nebraska) (Aug-Grand Island, NE)
Lyle McMindes, Box 1346, Grand Island, NE 68802 (308)
teville,
NC 28303
(919)
484-2890
Navy Mail Serv. Vets Assn. (Sept-Sam Diego) Maynard
Hamilton, 5501 Seminary Rd., #1109, Falls Church. VA
22041 (703) 845-5428
Pearl Harbor Survivors (FL Chapter) (Nov-Ft Myers,
FL) Paul Bemis, 9693 Baycrest Terr., Lehigh Acres, FL
33936(813)369-9234
LIFE
Life
naires
MEMBERSHIPS
Membership notices are published for Legionwho have been awarded Life Memberships by their
posts.
Life Membership notices must be submitted on official
forms which may be obtained by sending a self-addressed,
stamped envelope to: Life Memberships, The American
Legion, P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, IN
46206
Lee W. Osborne (1988) Post 121, Watsonville, CA
Thomas J. Clawson, Willard F. Gaefcke (1987) Post
326, Long Beach,
CA
Charles V. Scaramutz, George H. Wagner, Russell
Yoder (1988) Post 426, Yucaipa, CA
Lester R. Runion, B.C. Thomas (1988) Post 216,
Atlanta, GA
Sam Lane (1957)
Post 243, Doerun, GA
Norman F. Lea (1988) Post 716, Chicago, IL
William W. Nelson (1988) Post 104, Litchfield, MN
Lloyd Getman (1988) Post 588, Brownville, NY
Guldo L. Bartolini, Robert F. Flick, Michael
Machulsky (1988) Post 57, Saltsburg, PA
Fred E. Giering Jr., Dale W. Hartzell, Forrest E.
Laubach, Andrew Molchany, Robert L. Toth (1988)
Post 426, Coplay, PA
Valentine M. Baggot, Robert
Wisconsin Dells, Wl
COMRADES
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IN
Field (1989) Post 187,
DISTRESS
Readers who can help these veterans
are urged to
Usually an eyewitness statement is needed in
support of a VA claim.
Notices are run only at the request of American Legion
Service Officers representing claimants, using Search for
do
so.
USS Warren APA
Bering Sea Patrol Vets Assn. (Sept-Seattle, WA) Gene
Brons, 7031 N.E. 175th, Sp. 53, Bothell,
487-1201
(314)
Assn. of EX-POWs (Korea) (July-Evansville, IN) Fred
Herrmann, 6925 Little Schaefer Rd., Evansville, IN
Witness Forms available only from State Legion Service
Officers. Please contact CID (number). The American
Legion Magazine, P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, IN 46206
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Ptn., HQ Co. (Apr1st Bn., 27th Mar., 5th Div., 81
Edmond, OK) Everette Ramsey, 1715 Hill St., Batesville,
Monroe
Blaszynski, 7060
8232
OH 44134 (216)
351-1391
USS Cor Caroli AK 91 (Sept-Denver) Lee Bergfeld, 609
S. Ridge Ave., Steeleville, IL 62288
USS LST 18 (Aug-Pittsburgh) L.R Clooney, 1174 Curtin
Ln., Houston, TX 77018 (713) 686-6591
53 Albert Charles Warren needs
witnesses to verify a claim that while aboard ship in
1944, he was treated for jungle rot Contact CID 1190
2998th Treadway Bridge Co. John Golden needs
witnesses to verify a claim that while stationed at Korea
in Sept/Oct 1953, he injured his back and head while
under enemy fire. Contact CID 1191
1st/19th/24th Div. Dennis L. Moye is seeking witnesses to
verify a claim that while stationed at Augsburg, Germany
in April 1966, he injured his back while on maneuvers.
Contact CID 1192
Co. C, 714th T.B.R.O. John Wesley Hunt needs witnesses
to verify a claim that while stationed at Fort Eustis, VA on
Nov. 6, 1956, he injured is back, left shoulder and head
in a train accident. Contact CID 1193
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OLD-FASHIONED WAY
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Legion by sticking
to the
years. It's also the approach that Nat'l
Cmdr. H.F. "Sparky" Gierke hopes
every Legionnaire will use during the
current drive to reach 3 million members.
"All Legionnaires, whether they
blue, white or red cap, are key
players," Gierke said. "I'm convinced
when we march into Baltimore for the
national convention, delegates there
will be speaking on behalf of 3 million
men and women of The American
Legion. All it takes is the willingness to
ask someone to join."
wear a
Another Legionnaire who knows
is Donald D. Lindberg,
about "asking"
commander
of Arizona's Peoria
Post 29. Lindberg was the Legion's
recruiter of the year for 1988. He signed
up more than 200 new members by
knocking on doors and asking the
people he met if they were veterans and
when
they served.
Legionnaires don't have to resort to
40
members, nothing
Madison Avenue tactics to sign up new
members, according to Randolph
Hunley of Post 9, Wytheville, Va. who
proved what a little common sense and
,
imagination will do. He signed up 100
in 1986 by setting up booths
at shopping centers and near government offices where veterans were likely
os effective
os simply osking
members
someone to join.
to be.
is
new mem-
old-fashioned tools of the trade: shoe
leather, telephones and doorbells.
"You've just got to get out there and
call on people personally, said Samuel
Butler Jr. of Alice Post 186, Texas.
Sound advice from a man who should
know. Butler was The American
Legion's top recruiter in 1986, signing
up a whopping 342 members. "You
have to let them know you care and
want them to join," he said.
Butler's approach is not unique; it's
the same personal touch that has been
the principal means of recruiting new
members into the organization for 70
vice
When it comes to
recruiting new
Hunley handed out Legion
brochures and other publications, and
created his own ripple effect by giving
each new member a membership application to recruit a relative or friend. "I
think every Legionnaire should always
THE GOLD BRIGADE
LEGIONNAIRES who recruit
50 or more new members
during the 1989 membership year
membership in the elite
Gold Brigade.
Gold Brigade members also will
be eligible to win a new automobile
qualify for
1989 National Convention at
Baltimore said Douglas Henley,
chairman of the Legion's Membership and Post Activities Committee. Members' names.are entered
into a drawing for every 50 new
at the
members they sign up.
All Gold Brigade members
receive a special windbreaker, cap,
pin
and
certificate
for
their
achievements. In addition, the
recruiters will be recognized in
Legion publications and welcomed
at the convention by Nat'l Cmdr.
H.F. "Sparky" Gierke.
for membership
Gold Brigade is
May 2. An application must be
completed and certified by the
recruiter's post and department
adjutant, and forwarded to Mem-
The cutoff date
recruiting for the
bership Services at national headquarters no later than May 16.
carry a blank application form," he
said.
Another consistent top recruiter,
according to Department of Nebraska
officials, is Olaf "Olie" Ahlquist, a
member of Lincoln Post 3. Ahlquist, a
former post commander, has plenty of
worn shoe leather to prove his dedica-
new members. During
one membership year, Ahlquist cantion to getting
vassed much of his hometown by going
door-to-door and introducing himself
and the Legion to residents.
Butler, Lindberg, Hunley and
Ahlquist agree that no magical formulas or super sales pitches are needed
to be a successful recruiter. All it takes
is time and hustle. "Once you introduce
yourself, most of the work is over," said
many new members
Butler. "In fact,
recruited told
me
I
that they never joined
before because no one ever asked them.
Isn't that a
shame? They were never
asked."
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gionnaires
call
Leit
a
"dream come true" and
VA
officials call
it
a
"labor of love. " Veterans
in Pittsburgh
without a
roof over their heads
call it "home."
Thanks to a unique
partnership between the Pennsylvania
Department of The American Legion
and the Highland VA Medical Center in
Pittsburgh, homeless veterans in that
area are getting a new lease on life.
Legionnaires formed a corporation to
house the homeless, and purchased and
renovated a four-unit home. The facility
is operated by Highland, providing
shelter to veterans who have no place to
live after discharge from the hospital.
Plans for the housing began at
Christmas 1987, when Vinnie Malke, a
social worker at Highland began her
quest to find a backer for a shelter for
the homeless. Several months later, she
approached then-Department Cmdr. Ron
Conley for Legion support. "I asked
him to listen and he did," she said. "He
Pennsylvania
Legionnaires team
up with the VA to
provide shelter
for Pittsburgh's
homeless veterans.
possible. Also,
we want
to focus public
attention on the ever-growing problem
of homelessness. We hope that concerned citizens will get involved and
urge officials at all levels of government
end the blight of homeAmerican society."
live at the
home come
center, rehabilita-
Some
from other
of the veterans are on
When they find work
and a place of their own they can move
out and make room for other homeless
veterans.
Chuck
Linder, 57, the current resident
manager, screens veterans who apply to
live at the home. Linder, a Korean War
veteran used to own a grocery store
business. "I feel that
to the
VA and this
I
owe my existence
shelter," he said.
Both Shipley and Linder expressed
They said
they were overwhelmed by the Legion-
their gratitude to the Legion.
naires' "material
and emotional support."
"The partnership
that led to the crea-
tion of this shelter for
homeless vets
is
a
shining example of what can be done in
caring for our less-fortunate veterans,"
Cmdr. John Tipping of
York, who was on hand for the
dedication ceremonies. "I encourage
other Legion departments to emulate
the positive accomplishments of the
Department of Pennsylvania."
said Nat'l Vice
New
SELF-HELP— Resident handyman Art
Shipley makes electrical repairs to
one of the
units.
other two. Highland officials said that
each resident is required to pay a small
fee that is used to maintain the facility.
Led by Department Cmdr. Alfred
Pirolli, Pennsylvania Legionnaires are
spearheading a drive to collect donated
and building materials to com-
plete the project. Pirolli described the
42
who
VA medical
public assistance.
furniture
renovate the units; two units are completed and work is under way on the
Veterans
agencies.
lessness on
There are six residents currently livhome, and they're helping to
of vets helping vets."
tion centers or are referrals
to take action to
ing at the
has a wife and children, came to the
home after suffering from serious bouts
of depression. He had shuffled from
one job to another as a carpenter's
apprentice. "I hope this kind of program takes off and becomes a national
project," he said. "It's a great example
from the
sponsored a resolution at the department
convention and it was passed."
Legionnaires in the Keystone State
provided $20,000 for the purchase of
the dwelling, a repossessed property.
They also agreed to appropriate an additional $5,000 for renovation.
At dedication ceremonies late last
year, Conley said, "Our primary purpose is to assist veterans in every way
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home as "a dream come true."
One of the residents who is living
that dream is Art Shipley, 39, who was
in the Navy in Vietnam. Shipley, who
Pirolli said the Legion was able to
buy the property cheap because of a law
that allows the
VA to reduce the price of
a foreclosed property by as
much
as 35
sold to a non-profit
organization. He said the property also
must have been offered for commercial
sale for at least a year and the buyer
must agree to use the property to house
percent
if
it
is
the homeless.
"It doesn't solve the problem for all
of Pittsburgh's homeless veterans, but
it's
a beginning," Pirolli said.
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Continued from page 32
ernment not to proceed
with the CDC Agent
Orange Study was correct
and is not affected by The
American Legion report.
this
method because
with
The
it
disagrees
CDC's
validation study.
position articulated in
CDC's
"validation" paper is
that no exposure index based on
military records is valid. If
CDC believes this, then it must
retract
birth defects study,
its
based on two such indices, and the Air Force should
which
is
Ranch Hand Study,
based upon a crude
is amazing that the
retract the
which
is
index.
It
CDC
has
not
tarred
these
studies with the findings of
its
validation study.
We adopted the combat scale
from well-established studies of
whose
work was cited in the papers.
The statistical reliability of the
leading investigators
0.98 (about as high as
one can achieve), and the scale's
ability to predict a wide variety
of effects consistent with those
accepted by the non-biased,
independent scientific community, speaks for itself. A major
scale
is
CRITICISM: "The American Legion report as
well as the accompanying editorial imply erroneously that evaluating
herbicide exposure in
this
study is not
much
different than in retro-
spective studies of exposure to workers where
individual exposures are
not measured. The
analogy is misleading
because in well-conducted occupational
studies, one knows from
RESPONSE: The memorandum
does not disprove our Agent
Orange exposure measure. Consequently, we can only presume
that this criticism is based upon
CDC's
position that military
records cannot be used to deter-
mine Agent Orange exposure,
and its determination that there
were not enough Vietnam veterans sufficiently exposed to
Agent Orange to carry out a
valid scientific study. Both of
these statements are absurd.
objective records that
the employee was in an
area of potential expo-
sure and that workers
are exposed during operations. In contrast, in
The American Legion
we do not know if
veterans were within
miles of a sprayed area,
and we do not know if
any dose, let alone a
measurable one, was
received.
study,
finding of other previous studies
showed
that
combat
is
the prin-
cipal determinant of a
wide
variety of physical, mental
and
social effects. Despite these
well-known findings, combat
was essentially ignored in
CDC's Vietnam Experience
Study. Perhaps
CDC
found
it
necessary to invalidate our use
of the combat variable to hide
its own failure to investigate
what seems
to
be an obvious
concomitant of the military "experience." We discussed concerns such as self-report instruments for assessing combat
exposure, PTSD and other social
and behavioral consequences;
the time frame of the reported
symptoms; and the uniqueness
of PTSD symptoms during the
stage of questionnaire design.
Therefore, we used validated
measures used extensively in
other studies of veterans and
general survey research. People
who criticize that previously
validated questionnaires are
inferior to clinical interviews,
ignore scientific reality because
detailed questioning for the
presence of traumatic events
often does not occur.
46
CRITICISM: "Discussion
RESPONSE: We
of the findings of The
cized for failing to cite the
American Legion study
is
incomplete. Findings
from the Vietnam Experience Study (VES), the
Agent Orange Validation
Study, and other important studies should have
been addressed more
thoroughly. For selfreported health outcomes, the results are
similar to those obtained
with the VES questionnaire. As with The American Legion study, almost
all outcomes in the VES
were reported more
often by Vietnam vet-
erans than by other
Viet-
nam-era veterans. Those
Vietnam veterans who
reported either handling
herbicides or having
more combat experience
also reported higher
are being criti-
CDC
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blood analysis of only 643 veterans, was published in September 1988. Our papers were
submitted in November 1987,
except for the PTSD paper,
which was submitted in January
1988. The reviewers and the
author of the memorandum
should have sufficient professional experience to know that
by May 1988 our papers were
virtually in galley form. Nevertheless, given the amount of
consternation our failure to cite
the reviewers'
work caused, we
point out that had the
VES
been
available for background and
comparison, we would have
noted just how consistent our
rates of most outcomes.
Most of the verifiable
self-reported conditions,
VES. Despite differences
however, were not substantiated by objective
evidence obtained during the physical exami-
design and study populations,
the VES and The American
Legion study had remarkably
findings were with those of the
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the authors of The American Legion papers, as
well as the author of the
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accompanying
heart disease, anxiety or depres-
nation.
editorial,
ignore these available
data which would have
helped them interpret
the subjective data."
similar results for skin condi-
PTSD
(15
percent in both cases), hepatitis,
and miscarriage risks
(odds ratios: VES 1.3; Legion
1.35). Most important, as we
pointed out previously, the VES
confirmed the utility of selfreports as a source of veterans
sion,
health data.
ciently
done from general
samples of Vietnam veterans. Studies which can
provide more precise
measures of the effect on
humans of TCDD are in
progress in the small
number of people with
serum levels of TCDD's
markedly above back-
detailed objective data,
clear and consistent conclusions emerge:
1.
Many Vietnam veterans report psychological
and physical symptoms.
Psychological abnormalities have been demonstrated by objective evidence to be slightly more
prevalent in Vietnam veterans. Combat-related
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder has been shown to
be a problem in several
studies. Almost all physical abnormalities have
not been confirmed.
Many Vietnam veterans also were in and
2.
around herbicide or pesticide applications in Vietnam, and they have subsequently been told about
dioxin
and its
'extreme'
toxicity.
3.
Many Vietnam
veter-
ans, therefore, attribute
their current
symptoms
to past herbicide expo-
sure.
4. Very few Vietnam
veterans, unless occupa-
tionally
exposed (e.g.,
RESPONSE:
This takes us back
government's position,
according to Houk, that:
• Only one way exists to
determine whether a veteran
was exposed to herbicides: by a
blood test for dioxin.
• Military records cannot be
used to establish an exposure
to the
•
2,3, 7,8-tetrachlorodi-
benzo-p-dioxin (TCDD)
(and therefore other
harmful herbicide constituents).
Because of the selected
and limited exposure of
soldiers in Vietnam,
studies of adverse effects
produced by herbicide
exposure cannot be effi-
48
readings, misstatements and
misinterpretations of the information contained in our papers.
Reviewers charged with commenting on one of the few independent studies of Vietnam veterans available are expected to
read and report the numbers
correctly, and to seek assistance
in understanding a simple
random sampling method.
They did not follow customary scientific practice or
common courtesy by contacting
one of the investigators if they
had a question.
The science panel conducted
a closed-door review of our
The author of the memoranimplies in some of his statements that effects observed in
Agent Orange exposure must be
study. The results became
known to the researchers and
The American Legion when
due to either a flawed methodology or to misreporting by the
newspapers. This country's veterans should not be shortchanged in this manner.
they were published in the daily
veteran.
Throughout the review
it
is
repeatedly asserted that the veterans, the researchers and The
American Legion probably misrepresented data and may even
have
lied.
This
is
not true.
Our questionnaire
is not withpointed out in the
published papers, and the researchers are well aware, that
limitations exist in generalizing
out fault.
It is
from a cross-sectional survey.
and outcomes, because they are
based on self-reports, will contain inherent variability and
sig-
veterans.
dum
ben shown
absorb
Hand Study,
the NIOSH Mortality and
Morbidity studies, and
the studies around the
Seveso incident in Italy.
Because of the documented absence of exposure in ground troops in
Vietnam, even if these
ongoing studies find
exposure-related health
effects, they cannot be
applied directly to the
vast-majority of Vietnam
to carry out a scientifi-
We
to
par-
memorandum.
They were replete with mis-
cally valid study.
sprayer or mixer), have
nificant quantities of
is
by the
pational) exposure. The
major studies are the Air
There were not enough Vietveterans exposed to Agent
Orange
The American Legion
ticularly disappointed
sloppiness of many of the
reviews included in the Houk
index.
nam
systematic errors that concern
the reviewers.
repetitive (usually occu-
ground due to heavy and
Force Ranch
CRITICISM: "When one
views the full range of the
studies on Vietnam veterans, including those with
levels of combat and herbicide
exposure among those who
served in Southeast Asia. Such
design minimizes the possible
also
know
that the exposures
unreliability (as will, incidentally,
That
"objective" measures).
is
why
the researchers care-
fully constructed a study design
depends largely on internal
comparison groups: Southeast
that
As Gierke pointed out in his letter to Montgomery, the
controversy here is not about scientific validity. It is a thinly
disguised attempt by Houk and the CDC to avoid accountaby muddying up the waters and to belittle the veterans
and their organizations and any scientist who works on
bility
their behalf.
"We cannot and will not tolerate this kind of performance," Gierke said. "It will take much more than this to
weaken both the Legion's commitment to helping the
nation's veterans, and the study's underlying message to
Congress and the American people: The U.S. government
continues to avoid its responsibility to Vietnam veterans
and their families by failing to conduct research into the
long-term health effects of Agent Orange exposure."
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Lee Weddig, executive vice president
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meals consumed annually in the United
States, very few present a degree of risk
more severe than foods of animal origin."
Weddig correctly pointed out that
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Weddig and the
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of fire and insects, a system exposed to
chronic air pollution gradually loses the
capacity to cope with changing natural
stress."
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chain, which is already stressed by
municipal and industrial sewage discharges. The quality of fish and seafood
being harvested is apparently in
decline, which can jeopardize public
health.
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menace
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paper's authors cited a recent analysis
1990, acid rain isn't worsening. But
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effect of acid-rain
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and
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basis of current
damage
tems, the fact that
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will take six to 10
years for any controls to take real effect,
and the high risks of further delay."
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research that focuses not only on acid
ozone on
trees, and the role of clouds and fog
banks in concentrating pesticide
residues and other pollutants. We
simply do not know enough about what
is happening, and why, to have confidence in additional solutions."
rain, but also
on "the
effect of
United States
pledged to freeze nitrogen oxides emissions when it joined 24 other nations
last November in signing an international protocol. This marked the first
time that the United States has entered
into a binding international agreement
At the very
least, the
to limit this particular pollutant.
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trenches, the
EPA last fall
made a decision that seemed remarkably out of step with the Reagan admin-
When a Wisconsin utility
proposed a routine renovation to an
older power plant, the EPA ordered the
utility to make it comply with the strinistration.
gent
new
air quality
standards required of
For years, utilities had kept
old plants running with "life-cycle
extension" projects, rather than
investing in more expensive new
plants.
facilities.
As
one
congressional
source
new interpretation of the
mean that all life extensions
explained, the
rule could
would henceforth be subjected to the
tighter standards. "This may do more to
stop acid rain, at least that which is
caused by Midwestern power plants,
than anything else that's been done."
Another source likened the rule
to "half
a clean-air act."
Tougher emission standards could
well cost some industrial and coalmining jobs. Yet, the price of saving
now could well come at the
expense of many more fishery, tourism
and forestry jobs later, not to mention
those jobs
the blight on nature. Given this, it's
obvious that Americans must work
harder to rid the air of acid rain.
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