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...into a $1 billion surplus last year (though such items as interest payments and dividends to U.S. corporations tipped the overall balance the other way, to a deficit for Canada of $60 million). The pact contains so-called "transitional" safeguards for Canada that Washington is now anxious to abolish. Ottawa is willing to negotiate but not under duress...
...Allows the President to abolish student deferments for men who enter college beginning this semester and thereafter. Those in college now may hold deferments until the end of their fourth college year or their 24th birthday, whichever comes first. Students drafted while in college may postpone induction until the end of the academic term...
...ABOLISH FIXED SENTENCES. "It takes a Superior correctional counselor to inspire in an inmate a desire for self-improvement when he faces several hundred years of confinement," observes Fred Wilkinson, Missouri's Chief of Corrections, with some hyperbole. Indeterminate sentences have been used in California for years. Sometimes, as in the case of George Jackson, they have had the effect of absurdly prolonging prison terms because parole examiners did not like a convict's attitude. But the system would work, it has been argued, if inmates were regularly reviewed by a panel of psychologists as well as parole...
...They thus increased the pressure being applied by a growing group of nuns and priests who argue that their vow of poverty means that any unneeded earnings should benefit their orders rather than their employers. In their suits, Fathers Broderick and Granfield contend that the university had promised to abolish clerical discounts but did not, and that they are being deprived of their rightful salaries without due process of law. Because they are asserting a right to an already established salary level, the new wage-price freeze probably will not affect their claim...
...dramatically presented by Buenos Aires' Dr. Marie Langer, a petite, young-looking blonde of 60, who declared that psychoanalysis and Marxism are not mutually exclusive, as Freud and his orthodox followers have maintained. She urged analysts to study the interplay between "love of aggression" and private property. By abolishing private property, it is held, a country would abolish one of the ways in which people express their aggressions. Critics of that view, however, could point out that there is no evidence of diminished aggression in socialist societies...