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Implementation of these military policies DID NOT eliminate all-black fighting units in the Korean War, but it paved the way for the inclusion of both white and black soldiers into INTEGRATED UNITS by mixing established units with replacements when needed. Johns Hopkins University helped speed the end to separate units in the military when its Operations Research Office released its "PROJECT CLEAR" study which concluded "that racially segregated units limited overall ARMY effectiveness while integration enhanced effectiveness, and that a quota on Black participation was unnecessary." By 1954, THE LAST ALL BLACK UNIT HAD BEEN DISBANDED, AND BLACK ENLISTEES WERE ACCEPTED WITHOUT A QUOTA SYSTEM.
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A former Nazi SS commander was actively involved in wartime atrocities that included the massacre of civilians at the end of Second World War. Capt. Ladislav Niznansky faces a possible life in prison if convicted of 164 counts of murder in three massacres in early 1945 after a failed uprising against Slovakia's Nazi puppet government. The captives included members of the US Office of Strategic Services, on the run during a secret mission to Slovak partisans fighting the Nazi occupation, and AP correspondent Joseph Morton, who was the only war correspondent known to have been executed by any side during Second World War.
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The New Orleans Museum of Art is making "slow steps" towards reopening its doors to the public, said museum director E. John Bullard in a recent telephone interview. The museum has been closed since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast at the end of September 2005, and in mid-October the city of New Orleans laid off all but its most essential employees, which included 70 of the 87 staffers at the museum. To read more, click here.
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