Draft extension, pay inequities, and volunteer army hopes
Washington lawmaker explains voting for a draft extension to bridge to a volunteer force, noting pay scales for entry grades remain inadequate despite a Senate pay bill. He cites conference pay changes, welfare relief for service families, and future Military Procurement Authorization aims. The piece ends with historical tennis anecdotes about King Louis X of France and Henry VIII.
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Mansfield
Defense Department
Senate
House
Mount Saint Mary's third semester bootstraps degree program
The Military Degree Completion Program known as Bootstrap at Mount Saint Mary's College enters its third semester with 35 participants. Dean Bernard Kaliss notes strong growth since 1970, with officers and enlisted men earning a B.S. in one year while on active duty, many continuing studies in business, political science, and history. Lt. Col. Clyde J. Tate was the first enrollee and now serves in Vietnam.
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Emmitsburg
Mount Saint Mary’s College
Bernard S. Kaliss
Kaliss
Guy D. Baker
Dean Kaliss
Mississippi River
Hampton Institute
Hampton, Va
the Mount
Army
Clyde J. Tate
Vietnam
Manhattan College Announces Undergraduate Peace Major
Manhattan College in New York introduces a full undergraduate peace major the first of its kind. Eight juniors have started the program drawn from disciplines like history biology literature religious studies psychology and economics. Courses cover world economic geography anatomy of peace literature of peace and war and biology of human behavior. The program aims to prepare future leaders in education business and intergroup conflict management.
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New York
Manhattan College
Tom Stonier
Stonier
Credit Card Trial Expands Through Army Clubs
The summer test of a credit card system began in August in the Sixth Army West Coast area. If successful, credit cards would be accepted in all Army officer clubs in the United States and possibly in officer and non commissioned officer clubs worldwide.
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Army
Sixth Army
West Coast
United States
Air Pollution Monitoring Expansion Plans Update
Frederick County plans to expand air quality monitoring from seven to twelve stations. Devices at seven sites sample dust and pollutants including sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide, with one moved to Quinn Orchard Road for better industrial-area data. The project aims to place a station at Brunswick Elementary and High Schools for a pollution study.
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Frederick County Air Quality Control Board
Frederick
Quinn Orchard Road
Brunswick
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