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Though the Pentagon is filling its quota of numbers in the ranks, there is a broad consensus in Congress and the Pentagon that the members of today's armed forces do not match those of the days before the volunteer force. The education level of recruits has been dropping as...
But as long as recruitment rather than conscription remains the nation's preferred manner of filling its military ranks, the means?and the money?are going to have to be found to attract higher-quality enlistees and to retain them in sufficient numbers. Says Sociologist Janowitz: "The volunteer force in...
The more immediate and practical problem facing residents of the devastated black neighborhoods, which were bleak and run down even before the burning, was where to buy food, clothing and other daily necessities. Gangs of youths filling shopping carts with meats, canned foods, liquor and clothing had been commonplace. One...
1783: Mount Skaptar erupted in Iceland, filling a valley with lava up to 75 ft. deep. The blast's devastating effects on farming and fishing caused a famine that killed 10,000 (one-fifth of the country's population) and destroyed most of the island's livestock...
The Pope was celebrating his 60th birthday. So was Rome's Church of Christ the King, whose cornerstone had been blessed the same day that Karol Wojtyla was born in Wadowice, Poland, in 1920. How appropriate then for John Paul II to visit the church to celebrate Mass and...