Word: united
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group of stateless men who would welcome an opportunity to fight for their country. I refer to convicts-men who have lost their freedom by their own misdeeds. You will recall that Field Marshal Rommel put his criminal elements together in a motorcycle battalion and subsequently awarded them several unit citations. Many of us at Kentucky State Penitentiary are youthful offenders; some, like me, have had military training. We beg for a chance to prove ourselves on the Viet Nam battlefront...
...Eurodollar has flourished, born of the American balance-of-payments deficit, and nurtured by the scarcity of cheap, flexible credit in Europe. It has created a mobile, truly international capital market, far more efficient than economists could have planned. Eurodollars have been for big-league operators, since the minimum unit of transaction is usually $1,000,-000, and they are deposited on a short-term basis, 90 or 180 days being the norms. The current earning rate of a 90-day Eurodollar deposit...
...Vietnam affects ROTC in other ways. For the first time, ROTC cadets are learning counter-insurgency, now a standard part of both the military and Marine curricula. In Mil. Sci. 2hf for instance, cadets take a unit on the basic tactics of guerrilla warfare. Their June final has included questions like, "You are an infantry captain directed to command a combat patrol consisting of three rifle squads and two mortars. Your mission is to attack and seize the hamlet in the following sketch. State your plans." The sketch which follows contains areas marked "jungle," and a body of water labelled...
...much of the increase can be traced to the two-year program. Harvard's Navy unit expects to swell from 74 to 126 this year, and mostly in two-year enrollments. The Air Force, composed of six cadets, now offers only two-year contracts, and has received 100 applications for summer camp. The Army expects similar increases, while the Marines generally follow changes in Navy enrollment...
Last fall Harvard's Army ROT unit formed a counter-guerilla platoon. About 15 or 20 cadets continue to practice bridge-building, ambus demolition, and small-group movements as an extra-curricular active for which they get no ROTC credit...