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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moral Issue. When the strike began, Chávez could count on the sympathy of only a few churchmen, mostly the radical young Protestants of the California Migrant Ministry. Gradually, more influential Christian leaders came to see in the strike a moral issue: the need to end the grapes-of-wrath poverty of the farm workers...
Sophomore group tutorial, which is the same for all, is graded but does not count towards course requirements. Junior and senior tutorial, for honors candidates only, is more specialized. Those in cultural anthropology must choose between archaeology tutorial, which involves a lot of field technique, or tutorial in social anthropology...
...draft, an effective overhaul of the Selective Service Act will almost certainly not occur until the Act comes up for renewal in 1968. But there is one simple change which Congress could and should make now. Two year service in the domestic or foreign peace corps should count as a complete and legitimate alternative to military service...
...Peace Corps, as well as VISTA, its domestic counterpart, are unable to meet their manpower needs. At last count, 24 countries had made requests for Peace Corps volunteers which could not be met. The most conservative assessors of the Peace Corps manpower situation estimate that, if the Peace Corps were made an alternative to the draft, the number of qualified applicants would more than double overnight...
...inefficiency and bad planning. Businessmen were soon complaining about government interference; everyone else griped about the junta's delay in calling elections. Recently, the political right, center and left formed a united opposition that erupted in a series of demonstrations by merchants and students alike. As the decibel count climbed in Quito and the commercial capital of Guayaquil, the junta's patience began running out. Two weeks ago, 500 troops armed with rifles and machine guns swarmed onto the campus of Quito's Central University, firing into the air, hustling 800 students and professors off to jail...