Word: younger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drafted first, and the army will accept volunteers of 16 and 17. Not only are men of those ages more militarily educable, but few have families, thus saving the government rice allowances and family bonuses normally paid to older, married soldiers. And, since the Viet Cong are recruiting at younger and younger ages, the government hopes to get to the boys before the enemy does. It also intends to induct some 45,000 students in Vietnamese colleges and universities who are failing to take regular, successful examinations. The 25,000 left in the colleges will be fitted for uniforms...
...addition, the government mobilization would extend up to men aged 45, v. the present 33. Those 33 or younger would go into active military units; those 34 to 39 would be assigned to Regional and Popular (local) Forces or join those 40 to 45 in civilian defense units. Duong Van Thuy, chairman of the House Defense Committee, would also like to call up all single girls aged 18 to 25 to serve as hospital aides or armed forces secretaries, where they could, as Thuy put it, use their "soft hands and tender hearts to comfort our boys...
...than the economic loss. The situation of Asians in Kenya was not good, but the British needlessly exacerbated it. The Commonwealth Immigration Act was unnecessary because the British passport only meant security to a majority of Asians. Many of them fully expected to return to India or Pakistan. The younger and more educated hoped to remain in Kenya while they could, then move to Britain or other Commonwealth countries. The Asians who wished to leave are now stateless or at best reluctant residents of Kenya. African animosity is certain to increase, and ironically more Asians will leave in the long...
...North be exposed to African history? "The white Southerner needs courses in African History and the achievement of the Negro in America just as much as the Negro does." And he chides some of the less militant civil rights organizations for becoming too middle class, losing their appeal for younger blacks...
Lacrosse has evolved from a game of mass confusion to a contest of intricate strategy. It combines features most familiarly recognized in other sports which are in reality much younger. The speed of basketball with its picks, weaves, screens, and fast breaks, and the deft stick-handling of ice hockey both find usage in lacrosse...