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foreign Legion' Defends U.S. Under the
Stars mm
By ZANDER HOLLANDER
Fulda, Germany (UPI)
Ihey call themselves he "For
eign Legion" but their (lag is the
Stars and Stripes.
They have never defended
France in the Sahara or steamy
Orient. They defend the United
States on the Free World's bor
der with the Iron Curtain.
This foreign legion consists of
105 soldiers of the U.S. Army's
3,000-man 14th Armored Cavalry
Regiment gu.irH'ng a 300-milc
stretch of the Communist-barricaded
boundary between East
and West Germany. They are
not American citizens. But they
chose to defend the United
States by enlisting in its Army.
"The Berlin crisis made up
my mind, said Pfc. Raul M
Guzman, graduating from high
school in Los Angeles three
years ago.
"I know I had to get military
service out of the way some
time, said Guzman, the driver
on an armored personnel car
rier. "But I figured if America
was really going to be my coun
try, that was the time to prove
it."
Like almost all the "foreign
Morse, Wallace
Trade Insults
Washington - (UPI) - Sen.
Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) and Gov.
George C. Wallace of Alabama
traded long - distance insults
Wednesday about the way Wal
lace has handled the school inte
gration situation in his state.
Morse denounced Wallace on
Uie senate floor as a "punk"
and "a disgrace to the great
office he holds.
Wallace retorted at Montgom
ery that Morse was "a psy
chiatric case" and added: "I'd
rather be a punk than a pink."
Morse said Wallace's anti-integration
tactics "are those of a
shyster ... He will stand in
the pages of the history of Ala
bama and this country as a
complete disgrace."
Wallace, informed of Morse's
attack, shot back: "That sena
torial drip from Oregon . . ,
needs his head examined.".
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across the line, you get a sense
of doing something important.
I plan to re-enlist."
The Mth's 105 "foreign legion
naires" come from 24 far-flung
lands including the Pacific isle
of Samoa, E s t h o n i a, The
Ukraine, Norway, South Africa,
Guatemala, The Dominican Re
public and Switzerland.
Germany was home for most
41. Ten come from Canada,
10 from Mexico and nine from
Hungary, most of them, like
Petri, former Freedom fighters
Six come from Ireland, six
'FOREIGN LEGION' They call themselves the
"Foreign Legion" but their flag is the Stars
and Stripes. This legion is composed of 105
soldiers of the U. S. Army's 3,000-man 14th
Armored Cavalry regiment guarding a 300
mile stretch of the boundaiy between East and
West Germany. They are not American citizens
but Jhey chose to defend the U. S. by enlisting
in the Army. Shown front to back in this photo
graph taken at Fulda, Germany, are Pfc. La
zaro M. Julve, Cuba, tank loader; Specialist
Five Joseph Petri, Hungary, tank gunner; Pfc.
Ludwig Tyszecki, Poland, tank driver; Sgt.
Claudio S. Poiani, Italy, tank commander. (UPI)
legionnaires" in the 14th, Guz
man aims to become an Ameri
can citizen.
So does Specialist Five Joseph
False-Lashed Pros
Must Be Licensed
New York (UPI) With
out batting an eyelash, New
York's Secretary of State has
ruled that any person who ap
plies false eyelashes profession
ally must be a state - licensed
cosmetologist.
Said Mrs. Caroline K. Simon,
"The application of false eye
lashes constitutes a potential
danger to the eye itself, and
should be done only by a qual
ified person. It was in licht of
this fact that the rule was pro
mulgated .
Petri, 23, Detroit, Mich.', a Hun
garian freedom fighter who es
caped to Yugoslavia when Rus
sian tanks crushed the 1956 re
volt and went to the United
States in 1959.
"Once I'm a cilien," said
Petri, crack gunner of an M-60
Patton today, "it should be
easier to bring my taother out
of Hungary. I'm not married
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yet but when I do I want my
children to grow up Ameri
cans." For Sgt. Claudio S. Poiani,
27, of Kellogg, Idaho, the mo
tive was "join the Army and
see mama and papa."
Poiani emigrated to America
in 1955, leaving his parents at
his birthplace, the Italian port
city of La Spezia.
After several years as a zinc
and copper ore extractor in
Idaho, Pioani enlisted "because
I figured the Army was the
best Way to visit the old folks."
But the Army, said Poiani,
turned out to be more than just
a free ride to La Spezia.
"When you're up here," the
M-60 tank commander said, ges
turing toward the horizon be
yond which lay the Iron Cur
tain, "and the Russians are just
Williams Presented
With Scholarship
Each year at the close of the
YMCA Diamond lake camp, the
camp counselors . select the
counselor who has most closely
represented in his personal con'
duct at camp and in his leader
ship, those Christian qualities
which the Y seeks to encourage
in all youth.
The counselor selected is pre
sented with the D. Ford Mc-
Cormick Memorial scholarship
grants of $100 to aid in educa
tion expenses.
This year Frank Williams,
2182 Old Military rd., Medford,
was selected by his fellow coun
selors at Diamond lake to re
ceive this scholarship award
Frank was a counselor with the
YMCA day camp, which is for
first and second grade boys,
then went to Diamond lake to
serve as counselor with a group
of grade and junior high school
boys. He served for six weeks.
This fall Frank is entering
Southern Oregon college.
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from Italy, five from Britain
and two from The Netherlands.
The rest are sole representa
tives of 16 other countries.
Col. Wallace L. Clement of
Cambridge, Mass., commander
of the tradition-proud 14th, rates
his "foreign legionnaires" as
"among the best soldiers we've
got anywhere in the world."
Citizens of Fulda, headquar
ters of the 14th, and of its two
sub-headquarters towns of Bad
.Horselfd and Bad Kissingen are
often astonished to find soldiers
speaking so many remote lan
guages serving in the American
armed forces.
When Guzman and Pfc. Juan
E. Arguello, 20, San Francisco,
Calif., "get to talking Spanish,
the Germans stand around pop
eyed," a fellow soldier said.
Arguello, a mortar gunner from
Granada, Nicaragua, said he
really joined the Army to im
prove his English but "it cer
tainly helps to have a few
amigos around."
The men of the "foreign le
gion" are scattered in all three
squadrons of the 14th. They hold
down jobs as varied as tanker,
medic, mechanic, cook, chap
lain's assistant, infantry squad
Stripes
leader and drummer in the regi
mental band.
The Army imposes only one
restraint on their service with
the 14th; no non-citizen is as
signed to the mobile patrols or
observation posts which main
tain, a round-the-clock watch at
the border 365 days a year.
The reason: If the Commu
nists ever grabbed a non-citizen
in a border incident the United
States might not be able to per
suade the Russians and still
more the East Germans to
return him, especially if he were
born in what is now Communist
territory.
Interlopers Cause
Textile Troubles
College Station, Tex. (UPI)
How much trouble can
an old coat or colored handker
chief cause in a bale of cotton
bound for the textile mill?
Texas A&-M college reports
that often foreign fibers are not
detected until they have been
spun into yarn and may not be
noticed until they are made into
cloth. By then, the fibers have
contaminated a large volume of
material and the manufacturer
suffers a great loss.
Contamination usually occurs
during the ginning process when
fallen garments accidentally get
shredded and spread through
many bales.
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