Word: servicemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sheer size of the military is one indication. In addition to the forces in and around Viet Nam, the U.S. has some 900,000 servicemen stationed elsewhere abroad. It has defense agreements of varying nature with 48 nations. It maintains some 400 major installations abroad, in addition to the 476 at home. Altogether, there are 3,400,000 Americans in uniform, plus nearly 1,000,000 paid reservists. Few responsible critics argue that this force should be instantly reduced. But once the war in Viet Nam is ended, selective and gradual reductions at home and in such places as Korea...
...protestors demand the end of ROTC an campus, no military recruitment at the university, and the end of the Overseas Program, in which professors go to Europe in cooperation with the armed forces to teach servicemen who can then receive their MA degree while in service...
Americans, despite occasional shellings of South Vietnamese cities, and they are succeeding. For the third week in a row, more than 350 U.S. servicemen died in action, nearly twice the weekly rate that had prevailed before the offensive. Some time this week the 33,630th American is likely to fall in Viet Nam, exceeding the U.S. battle losses in the Korean...
...more heavily dependent on exports than any other in the world, Hong Kong increased sales to foreign customers in 1968 by 26%, to $1.4 billion. Bank deposits climbed 20%. The stock market reached an alltime high. Tourism soared as 618,000 visitors spent $160 million and 200,000 U.S. servicemen on R & R left behind another $60 million...
...students will talk to servicemen at airports, bus depots, and train stations around Boston to promote the April 6 demonstration in New York. The demonstrations will be patterned after last April's demonstration in San Francisco which drew 500 servicemen...