Word: awol
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Grant a blanket pardon to the draft dodgers of the Viet Nam War. Also, he probably would set up review boards to decide the cases of war-era deserters and perhaps pardon those who went AWOL because of opposition...
From the epilogue we learn that Sergeant Jackson goes AWOL from the hospital--an expression of frustration and spiritual languor--and gets himself shot to death in a grocery store stickup. The ending comes too fast and seems to pat as if Cole couldn't resist the temptation to tie up the loose ends, but it indicates that there is no ample cure for Jackson and veterans with similar problems. And if they deserve our attention, to does Medal of Honor Rag, not because it is a flawless play, but because it presents the veteran's predicament with an eloquent...
...story unraveled in court, it became clear that Lawrence had rarely been more than one quick step ahead of discovery. Somehow, he became a cop in 1966, despite a youthful arrest for illegal possession of liquor and an Army discharge for "behavioral disorders" after three AWOL incidents in seven months of service. He was with the state police from 1968 to 1972 and quit shortly after his squad-car windshield was apparently shot out from the inside when he was alone on patrol. His record also included the beating of a man he had arrested. After that, a brief stint...
...view the peasants as hopeless tupao-tzu (country bumpkins). More often than not, the result has been mutual isolation, incomprehension and worse-occasional beatings or rape incidents. Though Peking has become sufficiently aware of the problem to send advisory teams to boost morale and investigate complaints, countless youths go AWOL from the communes. Many refugees in Hong Kong are ex-students who braved a nine-hour swim through tightly patrolled waters to escape rural drudgery. Even more of the youths simply drift back to their native cities; without ration tickets to buy rice, they are forced to live underground, often...
...certain how many men would be affected. Ford set the total of draft evaders and deserters at 50,000, a figure perhaps largely based on Government estimates of 4,400 draft evaders, 8,900 men actually convicted of breaking the Selective Service law and 28,600 deserters still AWOL...