Word: junior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years to eight years in prison. The sentences were less than the prosecution had asked, a decision that seemed designed to prevent open hostility within the armed forces. The real target of the trial-though seven defendants denied membership in it-was a clandestine organization of politically progressive junior officers known as the Democratic Military Union (U.M.D.). Government fears about the group were apparent in the prosecutor's claim that the officers were plotting a Portuguese-style military rebellion...
...what their role should be in the nation's life. Most generals are veterans of the Spanish Civil War. Staunch Franquistas, they want to maintain the boot-clicking discipline of the old regime and may well demand severely repressive measures if social disorder continues. Many of the junior officers have basically been apolitical-docile career men satisfied to lend nominal support to the status quo. But some are beginning to question that function. One reason: low salaries have forced many to moonlight in second jobs, and they sympathize with underpaid civilians...
Under the new concentration program, proposed as part of a new curriculum in 1974, next year's junior class will be required to take four half-courses in an interdiscriplinary field of medicine before graduating...
...planning an introductory meeting on March 18, 1976, and hope to see you on that date, at 9:30 in the Eliot House Junior Common Room...
Described as "clowns" by Cleveland police commissioner Clifford Bruce, neither Claude Vealey or Buddy Martin had finished junior high school. They both had long arrest records--during the three-month period in which they planned to kill Yablonski, they were both involved in numerous burglaries. Both were alcoholics...