Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the plan had taxied, everybody simply got up and walked into the 90-degree heat and headed for the military or civilian arrival areas. Waiting for baggage and immigration clearance took an hour in a plain little room bearing a welcome sign posted by Rotary International (luncheon meetings every third Tuesday, 12:30, at the Saigon Hotel, coat...
...interpreted service in the "national interest" to include only military service and related "defense" endeavors. For example, linemen for civilian telephone companies who work at bonus salary for the benefit of foreign-based military installations are often, thereafter, permanently deferred. The SSS considers their work to have furthered the "national interest." On the other hand, a college student who works on a volunteer economic development program in South America is not considered by the SSS to have performed any service in the national interest...
Sloan, Parish and Glover are three of some 1,700,000 veterans who have made the painful transition from service to civilian life since the Viet Nam war became a major military effort in 1964. This year, at least 900,000 more will muster out-all of them to face an adjustment problem unique among U.S. war vets. The men who fought in World Wars I and II and Korea found gratitude and the traditional heroes' welcome awaiting them at home; the Vietvet returns with no fanfare to a nation whose response ranges from a noncommittal...
Still, there is a great disparity on the employment scale between white and Negro returnees, best reflected by the fact that only 18% of whites re-enlist v. 46% of Negroes. Clearly, many Negroes feel that military service gives them greater opportunity (coupled with less discrimination) than civilian life...
...backwater, John Harlley, vice chairman of the Liberation Council, answers: "We want it that way. Leading a continent is expensive, and we haven't got the money." Ankrah last week appealed to his people for political restraint during "a year of intensive activity preparatory to the return to civilian rule." It may take that long for a planned National Constituent Assembly to approve a draft constitution, which now calls for a division of power among a president, prime minister and parliament. The council would then permit political parties, but plans to bar about 1,000 former Nkrumah aides from...