Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Race as a Crutch. Though Harry Truman ordered the military services desegregated in 1948, the Korean War found Negroes still serving in all-black outfits, or else in behind-the-lines noncombat roles. White officers-particularly in the Navy and Marine Corps-stubbornly kept Negroes out of top command positions...
...other prominent alumni of the Joint Chiefs, Wheeler has always been the planner and strategist, never a war hero or even much of a combat vet eran. He had only five months of frontline infantry service during World War II, and even that was a staff assignment; during the Korean War, he was assigned to the Pentagon and Trieste. Though all too clearly no Patton type, he is known nonetheless as the most gifted tank officer that the JCS has ever had-based on his cool performance in the second-floor Pentagon "tank," where the Joint Chiefs meet thrice weekly...
...once they are inducted still number considerably less than in previous wars. Last year only 353 of 1,100,000 eligible men were convicted as draft dodgers compared with one-year totals of 8,422 in World War I, 4,609 in World War II and 432 in the Korean conflict. Similarly, the AWOL desertion rate for 1966 was .08 for every 1,000 draftees against 3.7 in World War II and .89 in Korea...
...coastal city of Ulsan last week, old and new Korea came into symbolic confrontation. The spring mists filtering across the landscape were mixed for the first time with ammonia clouds, and Korean farmers wearing traditional costumes stood side by side with businessmen and government officials in trim, Western-style business suits. All had gathered for the dedication of the Korea Fertilizer Co.'s new urea plant, which, with an annual capacity of 330,000 tons of fertilizer, will be one of the world's largest. Presiding over the ceremonies, suitably enough, was Byung Chull Lee, 57, the plant...
...Conyers is much more than an extremely liberal, very junior Congressman. He is privately acknowledged by the press and Congressional leadership to be the most capable and assertive Negro in Congress, now that Powell is out of power. A 37-year-old veteran of the Korean War and former labor and civil rights lawyer, Conyers not only impresses his colleagues with an agile intellect and a proclivity to do his homework. His speeches are laden with scholarly quotes -- particularly about American Negro history. And unlike the other Negroes in Congress, Conyers has taken pains to search out opinions from Negroes...