Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When U.S. infantrymen or their South Vietnamese allies need fast air support these days, the planes that scramble to help them may well carry red, gold, blue and white markings rather than the simple blue and white of the U.S. Air Force. The planes are those of the Viet Nam Air Force, and the results are usually similar whichever service answers the alarm. The Viet Nam air force, as well as the MIG-equipped North Vietnamese air arm, grew out of a nine-pilot unit that the French organized in 1951. After the 1954 Geneva agreements split the country, some...
...force mission is to provide close air support for ground troops and handle the logistical needs of the South Vietnamese army. Like the army, the air force is now being equipped and trained by the U.S. to operate eventually on its own. Toward that goal the V.N.A.F. has been given about 100 helicopters, with three times that many still to come. C-47 cargo planes are being supplemented by bigger C-119s. One fighter squadron is already flying supersonic F-5 jets...
This possibility appears to gain support from a well-known study by Geneticists Irving I. Gottesman and James Shields, which was not cited by Jensen, of 38 pairs of identical white twins. Separated in infancy, these twins were reared in different environments. Gottesman and Shields found that, since the twins were presumed to be genetic equals, the environmental factor alone must have accounted for a spread of 14 IQ points-almost the same gap that separates black and white...
Time to Learn. Rough Rock was the first such beolta, and it won such enthusiastic support among the Navahos that Roessel and tribal leaders felt encouraged to try the next step. They got a $457,000 grant from OEO to start the community college in a borrowed building. They got $200,000 more from tribal funds, and $60,000 from the William H. Donner Foundation...
...working model: the Rough Rock Demonstration School, an elementary school that was started in 1966 with support from the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Office of Economic Opportunity, but has an all-Navaho school board with total administrative authority. At Rough Rock, students learn Navaho language and history, along with such standard subjects as English, math and science. Medicine men come to the dormitories in the evening to tell tribal folk tales and legends. The Navaho's focus on family ties is never forgotten, and children are allowed to go home whenever their parents wish...