Word: enlistment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Peking, which last week refused to accept a congratulatory telegram from Israel, one of its supporters in the vote on admission, has all along backed the Palestinian fedayeen, often against Soviet-supported Arab governments. To continue to do so would risk alienating many Arab countries that Peking hopes to enlist as allies. Probably the touchiest question of all is posed by the India-Pakistan standoff. China is a firm friend of the Islamabad government, which is suppressing in East Pakistan precisely the kind of revolutionary movement that Peking is pledged to support elsewhere...
...guys. His own experience as the investigator had given him a taste for gangbusting. To carry it out, Kennedy first had to persuade the FBI that organized crime existed (Hoover had been a doubter). The bureau, long a self-governed island within the department, reluctantly agreed to enlist -though on its own terms. The indictment rate soared, and Hoover was more firmly entrenched than ever...
...matches the U.S. effort. Washington has traditionally helped many of the smaller countries with the high cost of maintaining missions in Manhattan-and U.S. officials were not reluctant to hint that they would like to be able to continue the practice. Pressure was brought to bear on Tokyo to enlist Japan as a co-sponsor of the U.S. resolutions. As Washington's man at last week's Persian Empire gala in Iran (see story, page 32), Spiro Agnew had a handy excuse to make stops in Ankara, Teheran and Athens to press for their support...
Other freshmen are considering taking off a semester to enlist in the National Guard, which would commit them to a four to six month tour of duty and later service during summer vacations...
Calley got into the Army in the first place almost by accident, when he ran out of gas and money in Albuquerque and decided to enlist. He talks in a convincing colloquial way about such things as pizza-pie-throwing contests at OCS, a one-day "wartime romance" with a Vietnamese prostitute named Yvonne, and the repeated indoctrination to kill, as well as to serve the almighty body count. According to Calley, almost nothing was said either about protecting civilians or adhering to the Geneva Convention. For three months after arriving in Viet Nam, just after the Tet offensive, Calley...