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...cause of the flare-ups is the same as that which ignited racial violence across the U.S. in the seemingly progressive 1960s: rising civil rights expectations rubbing against static reality. Although the Navy has managed to recruit and promote more blacks, their representation remains dismal. Less than 1% of the officers and only 5.8% of the enlisted personnel are black. The blacks insist that they are assigned the most menial tasks and receive harder punishment than whites for equal offenses. Says Lonnie Brown: "Two men have to chip down a wall. The black man will be told...
...entire reform movement in the armed services, initiated by Zumwalt. If he is replaced or even hobbled in his revolutionary shakeup of the Navy, it could well signal an end to the attempts to humanize all three services. That in turn could make it far more difficult to recruit the qualified men who will have to staff the country's all-volunteer army when the draft officially ends in June...
...Rodgers Dance Company is the creation of a comparatively recent but exciting recruit to professional dance, who in 1967 helped form the Association of Black Choreographers with the stated aim of discovering "the dancers' identity of Rhythm the Ritual, Afro in which American."the dance identity of the Afro American." Rodgers' Rhythm Ritual, in which his dancers provided their own exotic accompaniment by beating sticks and bells, seemed like an ongoing experiment that has not yet found a final form. But in Harambee!, a drama about martyred black leaders, accompanied by five on stage drummers, his flair...
...enacted: Communist forces move into a small town or hamlet early in the morning and announce their presence. The lightly armed regional government forces flee, usually without a fight, sending a plea for help to the nearest ARVN main force. The Communists lecture the villagers on Red doctrine, then recruit, enlist or impress young men into their army and perhaps levy some instant taxes. Soon the ARVN come to the rescue and, after an intense battle that may last several days and involve heavy air and artillery strikes that virtually level the village, drive the Communist forces...
Waging a full scale campaign to recruit him, the coaches from Columbia got DeMars's consent to apply. However, a history teacher -- the local radical of Classical High -- encouraged DeMars to look into Harvard...