Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rhiman A. Rotz Jr., 23, a Princeton graduate student in history, says: "Anyone would be out of his mind to come to a grad school as hard as this one strictly to avoid the draft. But everyone here has at least thought of the draft as a factor, however minor, in his decision." Explains Gene Blumenrich, 23, a second-year Harvard Law School student who candidly admits that he wants to stay out of the service for good if he can: "It's not really a question of dying. If it were, then of course the student deferment...
...resides not with the people, but with interest groups far outside the increasingly angry and nationalistic consensus. The largest landowners and old-family capitalists still hold the balance of domestic economic power. The American exporters and AID maintain overall control of the economy, and of any government seeking to avoid utter poverty and bankruptcy. Finally, the reactionary and fabulously oversized military presents any elected government with a virtually unmovable obstacle to genuine social change...
Polite critics of the State Department say that the U.S. too often prefers "order to reform" in Latin America. This is too generous. In the Dominican Republic at least, the U.S. has been, and continues to be, willing to foresake everything even order, to avoid reform. A Balaguer victory would mean chaos. The April revolution would recommence in Santo Domingo, and perhaps elsewhere. The democratic parties--the PRD and the PRSC--would be thrown into turmoil by an agony of conscience. What has all this to do with "order...
...defectors will be asked about their personal backgrounds and the circumstances that led them both to join and to defect from the Vietcong. Vietnamese students, rather than the Americans, are being used for the interviewing to avoid "contaminating" the information received, Knight said...