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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1969
Page
3
A North Vietnamese morale officer surrendered to the U S 4th Infantry Division in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam. He said he was sent to bolster morale among North Vietnamese troops but grew disillusioned after witnessing widespread food and ammunition shortages among his comrades.
The Nixon administration begins a departmentwide shake up aiming at career officer advancement, board reform, and coordinated policy planning. Undersecretary Elliott Richardson leads a two page memo urging promotion of younger officers and potential retirements for seniors, with a second step to reconstitute the Foreign Service Board.
Asst. Prof. Ronald W. Walters, a 30 year old political scientist from Syracuse University, was named to head Brandeis University s new African and Afro American Studies Department. He will lead the program opening this fall, a demand from Negro students who seized a building earlier this year.
Washington reports the confirmation of Travers as the U S Attorney for the District of Massachusetts after his appointment by the Sail. He previously served as assistant state attorney general in 1933 on Edward W. Brooke's staff and rose to chief of the criminal divisions in Brooke's office through the administrations of Richardson and Quinn.
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