Word: directs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...August 9, 1955, President Eisenhower signed into law a Reserve Rorces Act (RFA-55) that was to "build and maintain powerful civilian reserves immediately capable of effective military service in an emergency." One of the Act's provisions for building up these "powerful" reserves was through the direct enlistment of men for six months active duty followed by longer periods in the Ready Reserve. This six-month soldier is differentiated from draftee and regular Army personnel by the abbreviation, "RFA," after the law that spawned...
...program is now a success, it is successful mainly in the number of men who have enlisted. The Army need no longer worry about filling its quotas, but should direct its attention to the quality of training given RFA's in six months. It is in this sphere of thought that success will ultimately be measured, not in how many men are isued uniforms in one given year...
Garcia's response to such dissatisfaction was to direct criticism against the U.S. in stead. Says Garcia's Vice President (and bitter foe) Diosdado Macapagal: "The new line of nationalism is nothing more than an attempt to cover up corruption and divert the voters' attention." So far Garcia's assaults on the U.S. have had no substantial visible effect on the affection in which the mass of Filipinos hold the U.S. -an affection so strong that Ramon Magsaysay used to proclaim: "Let who ever wants run as an anti-American...
...Dulles and Ike had been "a useful exchange of views." What Mikoyan meant by "useful" only he knew-and Nikita Khrushchev would presumably find out. But what Washington hoped he meant was this: that Mikoyan, despite the ardor of his reception elsewhere, realized that the two men who actually direct U.S. foreign policy have no intention of being bulldozed, bluffed or cozened out of Berlin or anywhere else...
...political activities (riots, etc.) and get back to their textbooks. Less paternally, he issued tough new orders to the Popular Resistance Force, the Red-infiltrated militia whose members have been careering through Baghdad making political "arrests." Henceforth, said Kassem, the P.R.F. would function only as a reserve force "under direct military orders," and any of its members who tried to interfere with "the freedom of citizens" would be subject to "the severest punishment." Explaining why his new orders were necessary, Kassem was warily unspecific in naming the villains: "Certain elements who are fishing in troubled waters...