Word: volunteerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until 1964, the Viet Cong ranks were entirely volunteer; conscripts were disdained as utterly untrustworthy. Then, on the brink of victory and needing extra manpower for the final push, the Viet Cong began drafting men. Today, conscription is one of the Viet Cong's most serious problems, required not for...
U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer
Their chance of recovery almost irrevocably gone, these patients are doomed to years of lonely rotting under custodial care unless a volunteer or social worker takes an interest in them. Jean Carmel describes with pride one such woman who spent her days lying on the floor. During her first month...
"Green Power." Today the league has affiliates in 84 cities, from San Diego to Springfield, Mass., Tampa, Fla., to Seattle. The budget has mushroomed to $3.5 million, while some 8,800 paid and volunteer league staffers administer foundation-and Government-funded projects that cost another $20 million.
An hour later, shooting broke out. Brown received a superficial wound in the forehead when Cambridge police opened fire on a Negro crowd near Race Street. Brown disappeared, and in the early morning, two blocks of Pine Street in the Negro neighborhood caught fire, apparently by arson. The white volunteer...