Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Summoned back next day to brief a second group of lawmakers, Humphrey assured them: "We have now reached the stage where our military forces can sustain a planned, methodical forward movement." Though he was doubtful about the efficacy of B-52 raids on South Viet Nam when he left for the Far East, the Vice President added, he is now convinced they are useful...
Early one morning pro-Jadid troops and armored units rolled up Damascus' fashionable Abu Rummana Street, and began blasting away at Hafez' home and the tough desert troops guarding it. For hours the battle raged-interrupted only by one brief pause when the rebels permitted Hafez' wife and a wounded daughter to escape. Outmanned and outgunned, the defenders were finally whittled down to three men, who came out with hands up and holding a white flag. They were gunned down in their tracks, and a placard hung on the front of the demolished home: "This...
...basic qualifications are brief: you must be an American citizen, at least 18 years old, without dependents under 18, and available for a two-year term of service. You need not know a language. Most people, for instance, don't know Urdu, which we teach you if you're headed for West Pakistan. The standards are quite high. More than 150,000 people have applied for the Peace Corps and only about 18,000 have been sent abroad...
Peace Corps Director of Selection Al Carp, in Cambridge Thursday to brief the recruiters, said that over 90 per cent of the Harvard and Radcliffe students who apply and who are medically qualified will be invited to training. Of those about 85 per cent will be asked to train for the country or region that they request. That Peace Corps invitation, Carp said, is not a guarantee that a student will be sent overseas; he noted that one in six trainees fail the training program...
Sparked by Ed Franquemont's pin, the Harvard wrestling team erased a brief Princeton lead and went on to crush the Tigers 22 to 11 Saturday at Princeton...