Amnesty acceptance slim after first month for Vietnam era deserters
UPI reports that one month into Ford's amnesty program only 8 percent of eligible Vietnam era deserters and 1 percent of draft evaders have enrolled. Skepticism remains but officials expect more will join. deserter groups in Toronto vow to boycott. Pentagon tallies 783 deserters in, 3,673 inquiries. 6,600 evaders eligible. clemency board has 350 applications.
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UPI
Ford
Justice Department
Army
Sweden
Canada
Toronto
Pentagon
Army in Boston Could Enforce Desegregation Order
The piece reviews federal troop deployments in school desegregation from 1957 to 1963, noting a historic possibility of Army involvement in Boston. It recounts Little Rock Oxford and Birmingham episodes, detailing Eisenhower Kennedy and Faubus actions, including guardsmen, paratroopers, marshals, and federalized units to protect black students’ access to public schools.
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UPI
Ford
82Nd Airborne Division
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Oxford
Miss
Alabama
Orval E. Faubus
Arkansas National Guardsmen
Central High School
Eisenhower
101St Airborne Division
U.S
James Meredith
University of Mississippi At
Ross Barnett
Mississippi
Kennedy
Birmingham
Ala
George C. Wallace
University of Alabama At
Tuscaloosa
Wallace
FBI cries for more agents amid Soviet bloc influx
FBI Director Clarence Kelley warns of an alarming rise in Soviet bloc intelligence operatives in the United States. He calls for at least one agent per bloc operative, noting the past 15 years have seen a fourfold rise in such gatherers, with many visitors and students potentially acting as spies.
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UPI
FBI
Clarence M. Kelley
United States
Kelley
Dalles, Orc
Peter Byrne
Lewis River
Byrne
Morgan
Robert W. Morgan
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