Word: recruitable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rioters were some 380 Malays, members of a 470-man recruit-training company of Singapore's snappy Local Defense Corps, a military unit that guards power plants and government buildings in the tiny Asian seaport state. Though Singapore's population of nearly 2,000,000 is four-fifths Chinese, half of its cops and soldiers come from the 270,000 Malays, who comprise a jealous and often violent minority. Hence, when a Chinese Defense Corps major last week ordered the recruit company to split up by race and then dismissed the Malays from military service, the amok mechanism...
Israel explained that although M2M has been important as a mouthpiece against the war in Vietnam in the fall '64, "in 1966 it would be destructive to the peace movement to try to recruit more radical elements...
...recent months, McNamara's critics feel that they have picked up fresh ammunition against him. McNamara attempted, for instance, to reduce by half the $1 billion military-pay increase voted by Congress. From the greenest recruit to the most bemedaled general, from the swampy boondocks of Viet Nam to the carpeted offices of the Pentagon, this stand brought the complaint among servicemen that their boss was not behind them. In 1963 and 1964, for economy reasons, McNamara also held down the Army's program to strengthen its helicopter force; now there is a crash drive on to form...
Like most people in the Harvard community, both Old and New Snobs are products of comfortable and usually affluent homes. (Even the University Administration, despite its efforts to recruit poor and minority-group students, must admit that Harvard is still predominantly a school for the rich and the near-rich.) The Old Snobbery consisted of a set of attitudes still often associated with the rich: political conservatism, which then meant violent and derisive opposition to Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, and a scorn for and lack of interest in the problems of members of minority groups...
...little sabotage on the projects, partly as a result of the careful security checks made on all Vietnamese laborers. If they pass, the skilled among them can make up to 93 piasters ($1.27) an hour. As for the Americans, they do not seem to be very hard to recruit, are motivated both by patriotism and by tax-free wages that run about 25% higher than in the U.S. When Morrison-Knudsen recently queried its U.S.-based employees about going to Viet Nam, 58 of the 60 men working on a missile site in Grand Forks, N. Dak., volunteered...