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...expected to consider the question this week. Says Air Force Major General Acker: "At the very least, some form of registration is necessary to provide a ready pool of people to call on if needed." In addition, according to Major General Maxwell Thurman, head of the Army's recruiting command, registration "will heighten the 18-year-old's awareness of the Army...
...strong on Cambridge Common for months. When the soldiers needed barracks, Harvard agreeably moved to Concord for about a year. When the soldiers needed baths, they took them in the Charles River, often Sutton notes, "with disregard for modesty." General George Washington arrived June 17 to take command of the Continental Army in a ceremony on the Common...
...Carter Administration realistically hope to bolster the position of President Choi, since he has little power and indeed may be a virtual prisoner of the military in the presidential compound, the Blue House. To be sure, American and South Korean troops are joined in a combined command, and in theory this gives the U.S. some control over more than half of South Korea's 600,000-man armed forces. But such authority can amount to very little. General Chun himself flagrantly ignored a Korean-American agreement on prior consultation last December, when he ordered reserve units to help...
...Hyon Hwack abruptly resigned, taking the blame for "failure to maintain domestic calm." It was succeeded by a new one headed by Park Choong Hoon, a retired major general and administrator credited with having been a force behind South Korea's economic development. On Tuesday the Martial Law Command announced that it had decided to close down the National Assembly indefinitely. Opposition members assembled on the grass in a kind of sit-down strike. All 43 of them offered their resignations to the floor leader. Grumbled...
...industry's problems are staggering. Sales of U.S.-made cars for the middle ten days of May declined 30%; worker layoffs passed the 300,000 mark for the first time last week; and imported cars now command an unprecedented 27% of the domestic auto market. In Detroit, a town once noted for a cocky, can-do attitude, the mood is somber. Says Ford Chairman Philip Caldwell: "There's more at risk in the auto business now than there has been for a long time. Maybe ever...