Word: civilianization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alumni who are veterans or who watched their classmates die in the war "feel very stongly about civilian influence on the military. They feel that without ROTC, Harvard cannot provide this," Clifton says. He adds, however, that these alumni were a minority and had little effect on overall fundraising. In addition, he says sometimes they decide to give to the Fund anyway when they learn that ROTC is available to Harvard students through cross-registration at Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...would consider the 30,000-90,000 deserters on a case-by-case basis. He said nothing about the 800,000 Vietnam-era vets with less-than-honorable discharges, the million who failed to register for the draft and are therefore liable for prosecution, and the thousands of civilian war resisters. A fair amnesty should include all these categories...
...discharges. Bad discharges were issued disproportionately to minorities (who also according to the military's own statistics, received stiffer court-martial sentences than whites for identical offenses). Ninety per cent of bad discharges were issued administratively, without a court-martial, mostly for offenses that would not be crimes in civilian life. Yet the consequences for a less-than-honorable discharge is severe: veteran's benefits are denied, good jobs are almost impossible to obtain. Bad discharges help to account for the nearly half-million Vietnam-era vets who are unemployed...
...behemoth is apparently part of a Soviet effort to develop long-distance, over-the-horizon radar. Its signal, which pulses ten times a second, is four times more powerful than the most potent civilian radio stations; sometimes it is augmented by a smaller transmitter near the Black Sea town of Nikolayev...
Orienteering is a survival skill with military origins. It made the transfer to civilian sport shortly after World War I when a former Swedish army officer set up orienteering programs for schoolchildren. Students who had balked at conventional fitness programs poured into the forests to race from checkpoint to checkpoint, studying maps, steadying compasses and racing against the orienteer's chief adversary, the clock...