Word: united
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...even more important. In the populous, rice-rich and Viet Cong-ridden province of Binh Dinh on the South China Sea, midway between Saigon and Danang, it is fighting what the Pentagon calls "the intermediate war." That is the layer of the war that lies between the glamorous big-unit battles and the paddy-level process of pacification, and combines a little of both. Its aim: to root the Viet Cong headmen, tax collectors and policemen out of the Binh Dinh villages that they have so long owned...
...military. Although Harvard ROTC graduates have generally made above-average officers, rarely does one of them remain in the Army after his tour of duty expires. And usually the Army ROTC program here commissions no more then 25 or 30 officers each year. In order to justify an ROTC unit, but sometimes it overlooks the fact that Harvard falls beneath that level. The Army is willing to do so because the Harvard unit is one of its oldest and most prestigious...
...public relations purpose, it is of considerable value to the national ROTC program to have a unit within the academic system at Harvard. But since the Harvard program is more of a show than a producer of officers, the Army does not assign Harvard its best officers. The end result is a sad cycle: very few Harvard undergraduates join ROTC, the Army therefore does not send first-rate commanding officers, and the program becomes more unpopular than before...
...commanding officer of the unit is a professor of Military Science; he is a voting member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for as long as his appointment lasts--normally three years. The selection of the commanding officer is short and simple: the Army recommends a colonel and forwards biographical background on him to the Dean of the College. Upon the Dean's approval, Franklin Ford. Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, recommends the colonel's appointment to the Corporation. In short, there is little real screening of the proposed officer...
...unit until will increase the station's broadcast area by 70 per cent, reaching south to Dedham and Wellesley where other stations had blocked reception...