The World: The Colonel and the Lady

She planned on employing 400 women—200 for massages and 200 to sit in a big, dark side room and drink Cokes with the soldiers. After I saw them, I knew she had an awful lot more in mind for them than just sitting there and drinking.

Like some latter-day Yossarian. Retired Army Colonel Edmund Castle last week told a Senate investigating subcommittee of his final battle. His enemy was a perfumed, persistent Vietnamese entrepreneur named Madame Phuong, whose friends included some of the U.S. officers and service club noncoms under investigation by the Senate...

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