Word: enlists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your so-called "intellectually concerned" and "idealistic young," no longer enlist in a cause for the sole reason that it may be "tangible and satisfyingly anti-Government and anti-Establishment." We oppose nuclear power because of the all too real threat, not only to our own lives, but to those of our children. Susan Grundy Poughkeepsie...
...should have thought more carefully about the all-volunteer force before it decided to eliminate so many benefits to cut the budget. The all-volunteer force has only started to fail since the benefits have been "dropping like flies." There is not much left to entice young people to enlist...
Difficult as their plight may seem, the Venemas are soldiering on. But they may not do battle much longer. Elayne's tour of duty is up in 1980, and she will re-enlist only if the Army assigns her to a U.S. city, where Richard can pursue his dream of becoming a disc jockey. Meanwhile, he continues to care for their five-month-old son during the day and take business courses at night. Undaunted, the couple is considering a second child...
...stop. They did so. Wade, who along with others threatened to leave the tour unless the Chinese stopped filming the correspondents, later wrote that the visit had been "journalistically unsatisfactory and ethically disturbing." That tough judgment may cause the Chinese to pause before making any further attempts to enlist foreigners in their verbal clashes with Hanoi...
...unabashedly courted by a regime that used to excoriate the Yankee imperialism as a paper tiger is one of the most startling reversals in modern diplomatic history. It reflects, to a great extent, the determination of Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing and China's other new leaders to enlist Washington's help in countering the Soviet Union's mounting influence in Asia. It thus establishes a major new phase in Washington's often stormy relations not only with Peking but with Moscow as well. Even as the Chinese were meeting the Senators last week, the Kremlin gained a startling...