Word: reservist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cards in Central Park during the antiwar weekend, the FBI set about tracking down the culprits. Many of them, it turned out, still had their cards; they had been burning licit scraps of notepaper. One readily identifiable card burner was Northwestern University Political Science Researcher Gary Rader, 23, a reservist in an Illinois Special Forces unit, who wore his green beret and Class A uniform while he burned his draft card in Central Park before newspaper cameras. FBI agents arrested Rader last week at his Evanston, Ill., apartment, handcuffed him before they stuck him in a Chicago jail cell overnight...
...other national hero could hardly help noticing his pint-sized rival. Goscinny, a sergeant in the army reserve, has decided against sending a complimentary copy of Astérix to the general. "It would be a provocation," he said, "especially if I dedicated it to 'my dear fellow reservist...
...former philosophy major at the University of Minnesota, Adams got hooked on flying in 1961, when a Navy pilot friend came home on leave and showed off his jet. At the end of his Navy hitch next year, Reservist Adams thinks he will have had enough of the war, plans to go back to college. The Navy, already convinced that he has done quite enough, has ordered him to fly no more missions over North Viet Nam. Why did he take such extraordinary risks to avoid capture? "This carrier isn't much," he shrugged last week, "but it beats...
...Your cover story on General Johnson, Army Chief of Staff [Dec. 10], was very fine. As a retired naval reservist and former member of the Boy Scouts of America, 1919 vintage, I find it inspiring that General Johnson keeps in his office for ready reference his copy of the Boy Scout Handbook. It is a suggested Christmas present for all officers, particularly those who are privileged to be leading troops in the field of action...
...Recently nabbed Red agents include Sweden's ex-Military Attache Stig Wennerstrom; Russia's Ivan Egerov and wife, attached to the U.N. secretariat; two unidentified Russians caught in Washington using the names and papers of innocent living Americans, as well as a British corporal, a French naval reservist, a U.S. yeoman and half a dozen Russian, Rumanian and Czech diplomats...