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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to Army officials, the four students were the first "in memory" to be disenrolled after completing the entire Harvard ROTC program. Their letter did not seek personal redress, but instead outlined several procedures which they believed should be prevented in the future...
...Harvard senior has announced his intention to seek a confrontation with his local draftboard by not submitting a request for a 2-S student deferment...
...arrange talks for next month aimed at ending the revolt of Somali tribesmen in Kenya and Ethiopia. While Haile Selassie urged an armed assault on the white-supremacist government of Rhodesia, the delegates more realistically decided only to increase their financial support for bands of black "freedom fighters" who seek to overthrow the regime. As for the Congo's white mercenaries, entrenched in the border town of Bukavu, the heads of state demanded that they get out of the country and promised them safe conduct, but they also pledged to drive them out by force if necessary...
...almost embarrassing devotion to the royal family. By ancestry most of them are neither British nor Spanish. Some are Sephardic Jews originally expelled from Spain during the Inquisition; others fled Genoa in the 1790s to escape the havoc of the Napoleonic Wars; many came from Malta to seek work in the British dockyards. Over the years, they have developed into a surprisingly homogeneous population of 25,000 people who are tidy, industrious and bilingual (English and Spanish...
...Politics. Religious Samaritans in Viet Nam are largely dependent upon U.S. military assistance to get food and medicine to those they hope to aid. Nonetheless, most of the church-sponsored volunteers seek to be studiously neutral in their attitude toward the war and its outcome. "We are social workers and Christians and, as such, do not get involved in political questions," says Neil Brenden. "We're here to do a job." Adds Father Robert L. Charlebois of Gary, Ind., Viet Nam director of CRS: "We are here on the invitation of the government of Viet Nam to help needy...