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After defending the all-volunteer force for years, the admirals and the generals are now admitting that they are worried about recruiting. "The trend is unmistakably down," says General Louis H. Wilson, Marine commandant. But not even the Pentagon wants to crank up the old draft again. General David C. Jones, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, admits that "there were tremendous inequities in the previous Selective Service." The service chiefs, however, want registration revived and the draft machinery oiled up. Going one big step further, General Bernard W. Rogers, the Army's Chief of Staff, favors calling...
...revival of the draft is bitterly opposed as an infringement of freedom by such groups as the antiwar Friends Committee and the American Civil Liberties Union. Nonetheless, there is a growing feeling on Capitol Hill that the all-volunteer force is a failure, as long argued by Senator John C. Stennis, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Bills before Congress range from requiring only registration to reinstituting the old-fashioned draft. There is even talk of making women register. One other proposal would set up a "national service" program that would allow draftees to go into uniform or work...
...Charles C. Daugherty Memphis...
...C. Pardee Erdman's 30,000-acre Ulupalakua ranch, speckled with volcanic boulders, cactus and 6,000 head of cattle, is Hawaii's only vineyard. It was carved out by Emil Tedeschi, 36, an emigre from a Napa Valley wine-making clan. After experimenting with 140 varieties of grape, he has planted 15 acres in Carnelian, a cross between Cabernet, Grenache and Carignane. While the first bottles of his red wine will not reach their prime until 1984, a tasting of an early vintage reveals body and character. Meanwhile, Oenologist Emil and his chemist wife Joanne are making...
...Nova Scotian) ancestors founded a colony on Canada's Bay of Fundy in 1604, and by 1755 had transformed the wilderness into a bucolic countryside. Then came a scheming English Governor who hated the French. In an act of genocide that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow later made a cause célèbre with his poem Evangeline, the British jammed thousands of Acadians onto prison ships and scattered them throughout the Old and New Worlds...