Word: arguments
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...This argument is not new; it has been forwarded by a number of anti-Belt groups, but thus far has not affected state authorities. The Massachusetts Department of Public Works is now preparing a final recommendation for the Cambridge section of the highway. An announcement is expected early in January...
Caught in the middle of the argument and disturbed by growing U.S. losses over the North -eight planes and 13 flyers in a single day early this month -the Administration last week made a riposte. The U.S., said Air Force Secretary Harold Brown, is neither "undercommitted" nor "overcommitted" in the air war against the North, but precisely on target. As for any prolonged bombing pause to alter that balance, Secretary of State Rusk firmly ruled it out without some sort of reciprocal gesture on Hanoi's part. "We have told them many times that if they will tell...
...most politically potent argument for a volunteer army is a slogan: "The soldier is worth his hire." Friedman says that it is plainly unfair to punish a man by drafting him and then punish him a second time by forcing him to accept substandard wage. Again he argues from history: "Was not one of the great gains in the progress of civilization the conversion of taxes in kind to taxes in money? The elimination of the power of the noble or the sovereign to exact compulsory servitude...
...given situation, they reason, if he fears that American involvement might force higher draft calls affecting the politically articulate middle class. Thus a professional army effectively increases a President's power. He will be able to use a moderate-sized military force without considering the domestic consequences. This argument, however, can be turned around. Once the United States does get involved in a war, the middle classes find reasons for supporting the war, and it becomes politically dangerous to admit mistakes or attempt to withdraw. It is often said that the only way we can get out of Vietnam...
...case is almost never brought to the Board unless the guilt is already clear. This means that almost any argument about not having done it becomes irrelevant. The only discussion before the Board, Wilcox says, "is why not to do what the rules say." Almost every case which is brought before the Board has some kind of extenuating circumstances, thus the committee can best be described as the "Board of Exceptions...