Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Viet Nam performance has drawn mixed notices from both friends and critics of the Marines. Trained for amphibious assault and brief, intensive offensive action, the Marines instead were used for defensive purposes in the northern plains and .hills. The decision still rankles many Leathernecks, who argue that they are an offensive team and should not have been sent in to conduct "a goal line stand." Army General William Westmoreland's decision to send the Marines into Khe Sanh also grates on the Corps. Ordered to defend the nearly encircled position "at all costs," the Marines held, losing...
...latest letter from his exile in Algeria discusses the movement's silence on the subject of Bobby Seale. Cleaver claims that the Panther Party has been instrumental in opposing racial schisms in American radicalism. Anyone with past contact with the Panthers would probably agree, particularly if a comparison is drawn to other factions of the black community such as the militantly nationalist Muslims or Ron Karenga's US. Cleaver continues...
...bill that emerged from the Ways and Means Committee was stronger than the one that was sent in. Mills could not support the Administration proposal as drawn; the measure would have added 12 million to the welfare rolls without any real restrictions on eligibility, hiking federal welfare costs from $5.2 billion to $7.6 billion a year. So Mills amended the bill. It still guarantees a minimum income of $1,600 a year to a family of four, even if the family includes wage earners. But the bill now broadens the requirement that those receiving welfare must work if they...
...enthusiastic teachers, selected from a flock of applicants, are mostly under 30, frequently wear jeans and long hair. The experimental cast of Bremer's program has also drawn a good number of student interns from a variety of colleges. Along with the regular staff, the interns have brought the student-faculty ratio to less than 8 to 1 and the average class size...
...over the country. The effect may be far-reaching, since Bard has done nothing less than revise the role of the cop. He is challenging society's definition of the policeman as an intractable enemy, concerned mainly with making arrests when ordinary sinners overstep the stern line drawn by the law. The 30th Precinct's F.C.I.U. has been recommended by the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders as an effective and exemplary instrument for all police departments...