Word: function
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Timid no more. A year ago last May, Saigon and the U.S. decided to build up the national police so that they could carry out a classic role in counterinsurgency as developed by the British in Malaya: Resource Control. In plain terms, their function is to deny guerrillas food, medicine and supplies. Pham Van Lieu, a crack former marine commando, was brought in to restore discipline and esprit and to try to mend fences with the regular military. The number of canh sat was doubled from 22,000 to the present 53,000, will total 72,000 by 1967-many...
Holmes complains that people accuse him of being a Hitler, Obviously, he is not: he is only an administrator who has overstepped his function. This case should stand to all local draft boards as an example to be avoided...
...Michael Abram, has begun to serve the function--unique in Harvard history--which the bipartite constitution outlined for it. That document left to the HUC all the relatively boring and trivial issues of administration which had drawn its predecessor into dark lecture rooms and damp motorcycle lots. The HUC was to concern itself solely with academic policy. The Berkeley riots, which occured shortly before the new government began, highlighted the growing student interest--around the country--in educational policy. The HPC seemed a promising vehicle for converting interest into constructive reform...
...project has been approved by the U.S. Government, which has often engaged Diebold as an adviser to the Labor Department, the Peace Corps, and the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Science Conference. Says Diebold: "I'm not interested in being heard by everyone, but I want to function in the mainstream, where the action...
...right. The fact that religion is treated here as a branch of the humanities and social sciences--there is a whole junior tutorial offered in the Soc Rel Department on the psychology of religion--seems to indicate that religion is a pertinent field of study apart from its spiritual function...