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...that bases tariffs on certain chemical imports, drugs and rubber footwear on the American selling price of those products. The result is extraordinarily high import duties-up to 172% in the case of yellow vat dye-but only Congressional action can abolish the system...
...spokesman for the Selective Service System said that Hershey cancelled the tests because of their high cost of administration. Hershey saw no point in paying for college deferment tests when a new draft law might abolish...
...vision is Utopian and full of inner contradictions. In a general way, the New Radicals would nationalize basic industry, although some would only tax it more heavily. "The rich" would also be taxed to the point of doing away with big private fortunes. "We must abolish the competitive ethic," says S.D.S. President Nick Egleson. "Do we want to make 8,000,000 cars a year if we are ruining the lives of the people who are making them?" But, while New Leftists loathe capitalism, they assume that the miraculous U.S. economy will go right on turning out wealth no matter...
...delegates also did not come up with any specific plan for getting rid of the exemption, and admitted that abolish it would be difficult. (President Johnson specifically endorsed the 4-D exemption in his recent speech on the Marshall Report.) But students from Harvard who took part in the conference are now working on a detailed position paper that will be sent to 10,000 clergymen and divinity students across the country...
...sober, discriminating view of the world beyond our borders--a view that takes account of the element of relativity in all antagonisms and friendships, that sees in others neither angels nor devils--neither heroes nor blackguards; a concept, finally, which accepts it as our purpose not to abolish all violence and injustice from the workings of international society but to confine those inevitable concommitants of the human predicament to levels of intensity that do not threaten the very existence of civilization...