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...Cowboy Gangs. The new role of ARVN in the war has wrought many changes in South Vietnamese life. On the shabby tin huts outside the base at Cu Chi, which was turned over to the South Vietnamese in 1970, the signs in English that used to hawk steambaths and massage parlors have been only partially covered over by messages in Vietnamese tuned to ARVN needs and tastes: cheap gifts, laundry services and sinh-to, the Vietnamese variation of Orange Julius...
Even ARVN commanders concede that draft dodging and desertion have grown to epidemic proportions. Unable to find legitimate jobs, many young runaways drift into the roving life of the Honda-riding toughs known as "cowboys." The result has been a resurgence of the kind of gang crime last seen in the ragged days of the Diem regime. In Hue last month, one exasperated army commander assembled his troops and police near a banner proclaiming that "vagrants, thieves and burglars are the nemesis of society." His crackdown orders included an instruction that every cowboy arrested be given a haircut...
...unanswered question about Thomas is whether he will be able to settle the salary dispute that caused him to call Cowboy President Tex Schramm "sick, demented and completely dishonest...
...offices, swimming pool and a live-in servant. For recreation, the Kings maintain a mountain retreat in Vail, Colo., a home in Palm Springs, Calif., and an island estate on Maui, Hawaii. He drives a radio-equipped Cadillac, maintains an extensive collection of antique guns, wears monogrammed shirts and cowboy boots, and boasts several hundred pairs of cuff links, many of them solid gold. "My life-style has not changed in ten years," King has been heard to claim...
...President, miffed at Shula's reluctance to discuss his second consecutive telephone jinxing of The Chosen Team, later decided to place a call to Cowboy coach Tom Landry...