Word: cutoffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...human toll is, of course, more staggering. Through the February 1971 cutoff date of the study, 53,915 Americans died in Viet Nam-44,610 of them killed in combat-and 149,154 were wounded seriously enough to be hospitalized. The study reports that 472,013, or 2.6% of the total population of South Viet Nam, have been killed or seriously wounded while serving in South Viet Nam's armed forces. Going by the U.S. "body count" figures, the number of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers killed (714,984) equals 3.45% of the population of North Viet...
...funds for U.S. military operations in Indochina within nine months. The Senate then went on to pass with ease, 57 to 42, a bill proposed by Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield that urged the President to withdraw all troops in nine months but did not include a cutoff of funds...
Other national Selective Service officials estimate that about 400,000 students will lose their deferments this summer. Of these, only those with lottery numbers below the present cutoff number, 126, can be drafted. Since about half of the men tested usually fail their physical examinations, there will still be between 60,000 and 70,000 former students who may be still draft--able when the old draft law lapses...
...electricity in inhabited slum houses whose owners had refused to foot the bill. He relied in part on a D.C. statute permitting the mayor to provide for utilities and impose a lien on such property. "Where hundreds of residents already living a marginal existence in substandard housing face a cutoff of gas, water and electricity," he wrote, "the municipality has a duty to exercise its inherent power...
Harvard was settled in fifth place-the cutoff point for the NCAA's-before the University of Vermont out-pointed the Crimson in the jumping on Saturday afternoon and moved past them in the team standings...