Young Americans also sought out creative ways to avoid the draft and service in Vietnam: getting married, having children, prolonging stays in college, joining the National Guard and faking illness or injury. ... A Newsweek poll after four students were shot dead at Ohio’s Kent State..…
But the national emergency came with its own game changer, a military innovation powerhouse named the Islamic Republic Revolutionary Guard, whose mature version today improves Iran’s odds of withstanding forced regime change. ... Washington designated the Guard a “foreign..…
The Ludlow Massacre took place when the Colorado National Guard opened fire on a tent colony of striking miners; about 20 (accounts vary) strikers, women and children died. . 1971 . National Public Radio made its on-air debut with live coverage of a U.S. ..…
The Senate approved the measure under the condition that it remain under civil, rather than military, control, and López Obrador announced April that the head of National Guard would be military general. Catalina Perez Correa, researcher at Drug Policy Program at Mexico City's Center..…
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