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...motion already before the House to instruct House delegates to the conference to support Cooper-Church was defeated by the vote to table...
...against the generally servile role of women in ads. Though nearly one-half of American women hold jobs, they are still depicted in many ads as scatterbrained homebodies, barely able to cope with piles of soiled laundry, dirty sinks and other mundane minutiae. In most of these ads, men instruct, while women do the servants' work. This, the feminists argued, only reinforces the idea of women's dependency...
...Massachusetts National Guardsmen are not given ammunition in the course of normal riot duty. The officers instruct them to use their bayonets if they are attacked. The lieutenant who supervises one unit told his men, "If a demonstrator tries to take you gun, stab him. Stab em, that's right, and when they see several of their buddies lying in the street severely wounded, they'll get the message." Only minutes before the same officer had told his men, "The most effective place to insert the bayonet is in the neck or crotch; these areas are soft and vulnerable...
...avoidance of death in most cases is simple: hold fire. Except to stop snipers, shooting to kill can rarely be justified. Even then, the Army, National Guard units and police departments instruct their men to first locate the source of the sniper fire, and to return it only by the pinpoint, one-shot-at-a-time marksmanship of a trained rifleman. Laying down a fusillade, Army military police are told, "accomplishes nothing constructive and creates hostility among innocent bystanders," even if none are wounded or killed. A sniper can often be silenced by surrounding his position and forcing...
...latest statement from the personnel office emphasizes that President Pusey's original declaration on the employees' strike is applicable both to salaried and hourly employees. It authorizes supervisors to permit them to participate in anti-war activities during working hours without reduction in pay. But it does not instruct the supervisors...