Word: senting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saying they had deserted the U.S. Army to avoid being sent to Vietnam the two men: asked for asylum-the first to do so in this Scandinavian country...
...Seventy-nine presidents of private universities and colleges-but not President Pusey-sent a letter to President Nixon Saturday urging him to adopt a "stepped-up timetable for withdrawal from Vietnam." Mary I. Bunting, president of Radcliffe was one of the signers...
Pusey was one of three Ivy League presidents who did not sign the letter. Kingman Brewster Jr., president of Yale, had sent a stronger letter to Nixon last Thursday, asking for unconditional withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam. A spokesman for John Sloan Dickey, pres-ident of Dartmouth. said that Dickey thinks he can be "more effective if he doesn't take public stands in foreign affairs. Dickey, who was a State Department official before going to Dartmouth, has in the past expressed his opposition...
Soyuz 8, manned by two experienced space pilots, lifted off from the Baikaonur cosmodrome in Soviet Central Asia to join Soyuz 6 and Soyuz 7, which were sent aloft on Saturday and Sunday...
Soyuz 6 has special welding equipment on board apparently to be used to construct a manned orbiting platform after the thrice vessels link up in space. Some of the cosmonauts could stay behind to man the station while the others returned to earth and new crews could be sent up as relief, American experts theorized...