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  1.                                                                                 GRAPEVINE, Page 17Equal Opportunity War
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  3. By JANICE CASTRO
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  6.     Everybody knows that Vietnam was a class war, whose burden
  7. was borne disproportionately by the inner-city and rural poor
  8. and minorities. Well, it seems that everybody is wrong. A new
  9. study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, co-funded
  10. by the U.S. Army, shows that the 58,000 Americans who died in
  11. the war represented a good cross section of the nation. By
  12. analyzing the family income of those servicemen, the M.I.T. team
  13. found that 26% of the casualties were from families earning in
  14. the highest third of the income range, vs. 30% of casualties
  15. from the lowest third. The most prosperous servicemen, in fact,
  16. died at a slightly higher rate, mostly because they were more
  17. likely to be pilots or infantry captains and lieutenants.
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