Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Europe and North America, WHO estimates, now spend $70 million a year on vaccinations to protect themselves against a disease that occurs nowhere within their borders. Why not allocate a fraction of this, $180 million over ten years, to exterminate the smallpox virus wherever it still flourishes? Then, the argument runs, many fewer vaccinations and revaccinations would be needed...
...biggest remaining argument was between the publishers and the Newspaper Guild, which seemed more interested in getting its way than in getting its people back to work. What its leaders want is a hiring policy based on seniority in the strictest sense-meaning that all Guildsmen on all three merged papers would be ranked by time on the job. Women's-page reporters, sportswriters, political specialists would be mixed on the same list, and the roster of those hired would start...
...reasoning is simple. Since Education is in the National Interest, those being educated should not be drafted. This argument -- which has some weight, but not much -- represents a very crude extrapolation from two sound proposals: (1) Formal education generally benefits, in an economic and "cultural" sense, both the student and the society he eventually serves. (2) There are times when a democratic government must act unjustly to preserve itself, must place short-run "national interest" before the long-run goal of building and preserving a democratic society. Though defensible in themselves, neither of these propositions justify the 2-S deferment...
Three objections are commonly raised to this argument...
...fall into in finding evidence for their "facts." The duplicity involved is most obvious when you hear members of SDS denounce the New York Times for misrepresenting the situation on one day, and then citing it as a source in the counter exam on the following day. The other argument which can be held against the sources chosen to support the protest position comes from the non-believer who asks why he should listen to SDS's statistical data any more than the figures issued from Washington. The counter exams realizes its potential when it shows the Administration's arguments...