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...immediate military career plans 30 students intend to enlist, 13 will join the Reserves, and 44 plan some kind of military training such as ROTC. The other 424 students (or 83 per cent of the sample) have no immediate plans to "join...
Cross tabulations show that even those students who plan to enlist, join the Reserves, or start some kind of military training (such as ROTC) are neither enthusiastic about going into the Armed Services nor do they agree with U.S. policy in Vietnam. A small minority of these students who intend to start their military careers next year indicate that they would be unwilling to follow orders which sent them to fight in Vietnam...
...same 30 Harvard students who say they will enlist next year, two of them indicate that they will not fight in Vietnam. Five of those who are willing to go with "enthusiasm" while 16 of them indicate that they are joining only with "reluctance." Of those students enlisting, 85 per cent do not approve of U.S. policy in Vietnam. Two of these students think "the military effort should be increased," 10 of them feel the "military effort should be continued with an increased effort to achieve a negotiated peace," 10 of them argue that the military effort should be reduced...
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...
Numbering 750 hard-core fighters, plus several thousand support troops, the guerrillas have repeatedly attacked Indonesian military sites and terrorized Malaysian border areas since July. They have also tried to enlist by intimidation Borneo's primitive Dayak tribesmen, the descendants of legendary headhunters. This tactic provoked a reaction that their Maoist guerrilla handbooks did not even hint at. Meeting terror with terror, the Dayaks exploded in an avenging rampage of killing, burning and cannibalism against all Chinese...