Word: regular
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...FIVE months after a young man enters the National Guard, he is trained to kill the enemy. He is instructed along with members of the regular army, many of whom will end up fighting in the hot and hostile jungles of Southeast Asia...
...other day, at a regular monthly drill, a vote was taken of the number of men in one unit who felt that ammunition should not be issued for riot duty in Cambridge. Out of over one hundred and twenty-five men, two hands were raised. From the back of the room, one sergeant called out in reference to my raised hand, "We have an SDSer back here." No one laughed. The demonstrators used violence and had guns, the officers believed, and so the Guardsmen should not be deprived of their weapons...
Everyone wonders whether there will be another Kent State. The White House, in hopes of avoiding another such "inevitable tragedy," has issued orders to the Guard, requesting that ammunition not be issued on regular riot duty, except to certain specified marksmen who are instructed to fire only at snipers. But situations where "tired and frightened" men are faced by overtly hostile, rock-wielding demonstrators, sometimes grow out of control. Bayonets are also fatal weapons...
...leaflet being distributed today, the group claimed holding regular graduation is "callous to the escalation of atrocity and repression at home and abroad." Students organizing the protest also stated their objections to becoming "a great ?capped-and-gowned silent majority" at a ceremony that offers only "passive spectatorship and irrelevance...
Frank H. Westheimer, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry, spoke in favor of the motion and amended it to read that "we should make a bi-annual fall recess a regular part of our calendar" if the recess proved to be productive...