Word: enlisting
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Last week at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Government and International Affairs, Lyndon Johnson, venerably capped and gowned for the occasion, made a determined attempt to enlist the support of academe. At the same time, he delivered a few more oblique shafts at his chief tormentor, Senator William Fulbright, a whilom hero of the intellectuals...
...Communist daily Granma,* Fidel Castro spelled out the whole ugly story of how Peking had not only "committed a criminal act of economic aggression" by reducing its 1966 rice shipments to Cuba, but had also sent huge amounts of propaganda material into the country in an attempt to enlist the army for Peking's espionage purposes. "We have liberated ourselves from imperialism 90 miles from our shore," declared Fidel. "We are not willing to allow another powerful state 12,000 miles away to impose similar practices...
...addition to their two ROTC programs, the Army offers a College Option Officer Candidate School plan. Under this plan, college graduates who have not enrolled in ROTC can enlist as officers. The program is for two years and ten months, involving 16 weeks of basic training and 23 weeks in OCS, followed by two years of active service...
...AFROTC offers only a two-year program, involving a six-week summer training course prior to the junior year. After graduation, AFROTC men enlist in the Air Force for four years of active service...
None of these differences do much to help the United Ministry's capacity for united action. Since September the members have drafted and approved one 150 word statement supporting the right to protest government foreign policy. Other attempts to enlist their joint support of various policy statements have failed...