Word: combating
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Since American troops first went into combat in Viet Nam in 1965, the U.S. Army has been desperate for that most expendable commodity of ground warfare: second lieutenants. Until mid-May, the Army was processing aspiring officers through its Officers Candidate Schools like widgets. Now the press is off. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird has cut down total Army strength by 200,000 men since last year. More cuts are in prospect, so now the Army is trying as hard to discourage O.C.S. applicants as it was working to encourage them earlier. Most applicants are three-year enlistees. To stop them...
...Senate fight against the bill was led by North Carolina's conservative Democrat Sam Ervin, whose image as the strictest constructions! of them all has moved him to combat such diverse events as civil rights legislation and the proliferation of computerized data banks. Ervin's argument that the bill was unconstitutional persuaded only two of the Southern colleagues who had followed his legal lead on so many other bills. And he was opposed by a collection of liberal Northern Senators who might ordinarily be expected to share his constitutional conviction that the bill must be defeated. Opponents were...
...Combat Help. U.S. support has come chiefly in the form of an $8,900,000 military-aid program. More than half has been spent on ammunition and rifles for Cambodia's ill-equipped army, which at one point was posting guard teams to stand duty without weapons. U.S. funds have also been used to equip six battalions of Khmer Krom mercenaries (ethnic Cambodians from Viet Nam), provide much-needed radio communications, buy 40 military trucks and trailers, and send about 10,000 Cambodian troops to Thailand and South Viet Nam for military training. Says Jonathan (Fred) Ladd...
...psychiatrist in uniform, the problem can be even more distressing. Within the spirit of his profession, how can he morally justify his military duty, which is to "adjust" to the brutalities of combat a mind that has rejected those very brutalities? In a crisis of conscience similar in many respects to Physician Levy's, Daniel Switkes, 28, a psychiatrist drafted into the service, has asked to be restored to civilian status. Switkes has seemingly lost his case. Last week, after a federal district court in New York City refused his appeal to continue stay of orders, he found himself...
When the institution is war, says Lifton, psychiatry may be forced to turn against itself. To a degree, this is true of all wars, but it is excruciatingly true of the Viet Nam War. If the combat veteran suffers anxiety, guilt or confusion over his role, the psychotherapist should, ideally, help the G.I. examine his actions and emotions more closely and feel them more acutely. "But if the psychiatrist were to do so," Lifton says, "most G.I.s in Viet Nam whom he treated would refuse to continue fighting." Hence, as Emory University Psychiatrist Peter Bourne has said with conviction, "Military...