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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, February 14, 1968
KU student veteran awaits return of wife from Korea
Paul C. Taylor, Sterling junior and Vietnam veteran, traveled halfway around the world over the Christmas holidays to marry Petronella Snel, his army nurse stationed at Pusan, Korea.
Taylor was sent to Fitzsimmons General (Army) Hospital, Denver, Colo., to recover from injuries received in Vietnam. Taylor suffered extensive bone damage to his left arm and shoulder.
He met Miss Snel, a former Dutch citizen, who was stationed at Fitzsimmons during his eight month stay at the hospital.
Taylor, a staff sergeant while on active duty, and Miss Snel, a first lieutenant, bypassed the Army regulation prohibiting fraternization between enlisted men and officers.
"We had to sneak around quite a bit," Taylor said.
Before coming to KU, Taylor attended Hutchinson Junior College three semesters and the University of Hawaii one semester. He enlisted in the army in 1964 and later volunteered
for the Green Berets. Taylor enrolled here last fall, a few weeks after his release from the Army Special Forces.
Taylor flew to his Korean wedding by hitching an extra-space ride on an army flight.
He was married by the mayor of Seoul. When asked the mayor's name, Taylor checked his license.
"His name is written here, but I can't give his name because it is Korean script," Taylor said.
Taylor had to leave his wife after a two day honeymoon. Mrs. Taylor had to return to duty and Taylor had to get back to KU to enroll for the spring semester.
Mrs. Taylor was looking forward to her 25-day leave to visit her husband. However the Pueblo incident cancelled this leave. Mrs. Taylor will be discharged from the Army Aug. 4 and will join her husband here then.
Until then he lives in a green trailer house with only a six foot tall, three month old great dane to keep him company.
Marines leave, planes hit Hue
SAIGON —(UPI)— Embattled Leathernecks withdrew from Hue's forbidden city today and allied divebombers in their biggest raid hit the Viet Cong behind the Citadel's 12-foot-thick walls with bombs, rockets and napalm.
Brig. Gen. Foster C. Lahue, whose Marines met sheets of Communist fire in trying earlier to storm the Citadel, watched the air attack from a helicopter and said his men faced the toughest
part of the entire battle" for Hue.
"That wall was built to defend the city, of course, and the damned thing is doing its job. As soon as we crack that wall, we're going right in," said the 49-year-old Leatherneck from Cordon, Ind.
The allied planes also dropped a nonlethal type of nausea gas which temporarily discomforts its victims, the effects wearing off after several hours. Gas was used to
soften up the guerrillas for Marine ground attack.
The air attack by Navy F8 Crusaders and South Vietnamese A1 Skyraiders plus American helicopters marked the end of a period of Leatherneck restraint.
Near Saigon, where allied troops hunted guerrilla bands on the outskirts and reported the danger of a fresh Viet Cong invasion. U.S. Air Force B52 Sratfortresses today staged their closest raids to the capital.
Senior gives piano recital
James McCalla, Lawrence senior, will present a piano recital at 8 p.m. tonight in Swarthout Recital Hall.
Last year McCalla was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, national scholastic honorary, and Pi Kappa Lambda, national music honorary. He is enrolled in both the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the School of Fine Arts and has been on the honor roll of both schools every semester.
For his program, he will present "Toccata in C Minor" by Bach and "Sonata in E Major by Beethover.
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