Word: abolitionism
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In the years since the abolition of the draft in the early 1970s, the armed forces have been manned by poor people and racial minorities--there is no quarreling with that fact. In a society where unemployment is permitted--indeed encouraged--to flourish, the service has become an employer of...
The boycott movement has always supported abolition of the CRR, and students should reaffirm that commitment this year. Over and above its procedural inequities, the CRR offends basic standards of political freedom; the idea that a university should have a political police is abhorrent. We hope the Faculty Council will...
Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and his top assistant, Frank Carlucci, initially replied in typical Pentagon fashion: they produced a list that, according to congressional sources, suggested the abolition of one of the Army's 16 divisions and the scrapping of two tactical air wings, among other things. The...
But the conservatives do share some basic positions, especially an abiding opposition to government intrusion into the city's housing market. "Rent control (limits on the amount of rent a landlord can charge) ruined the city," Sullivan says. "Properties have not been kept up, there have been absentee landlords and...
Most disturbing to Britons is the fact that the radical leftists have injected many of their views into the party's national platform. Among them: withdrawal of Britain from the European Community, unilateral nuclear disarmament, nationalization of all major British industry, and abolition of the House of Lords. Recoiling...