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...people worst hurt." Republicans agree, even though the Carter policies in question are the standard G.O.P. nostrums of curbing Government spending and encouraging the Federal Reserve to follow a tight-money policy. Says Republican National Committee Chairman William Brock: "Carter is consciously using human beings as cannon fodder in his war against inflation. We're going to take his hide off on that...
...draft, some of those opposed now feel, would actually encourage war: so much cannon fodder would surely tempt the Pentagon and President to swagger, and then to escalate and eventually drive in full plumage into Armageddon. But a contrary logic might just as easily apply: a broadly representative military drawn from every class, without the discrimination inherent in the AVF, would force the military to be more cautious, and sensitive to the democratic will...
...Weller interrupted the Harvard show momentarily to pump in the second half of his afternoon deuce. Having seen enough, the red-hot Wigglesworth took a pass and went into a spinning fake that left two stunned UMass defensemen wiping the dust from their eyes while he launched a cannon for his final goal...
...Business Day organizers last week bypassed New York City, the epicenter of corporate America, as too diffuse to be attacked. Instead they trained their guns on a Washington gathering in the Cannon House Office Building. Some moments in the daylong affair were moving. Joanna Hale, 26, representing the Love Canal Homeowners' Association, denounced Hooker Chemical Co. for the chemical waste seepage in Niagara Falls, N.Y., that they say made residents ill. Joyce Bichler, who underwent a hysterectomy at 18 because her mother was given the drug DBS during pregnancy to prevent a miscarriage, declared: "Eli Lilly has given...
...Chad, the scene was all too familiar. Cannon and machine-gun fire echoed through the streets of N'Djamena, the dusty riverside capital of the north-central African nation. Days of violent combat turned the city, which once had a population of 193,000, into a smoke-shrouded battlefield. By week's end, in spite of two abortive ceasefires, hundreds were dead, many of them civilians caught in the crossfire. Some 600 foreigners, including U.S. Ambassador Donald Norland, and up to 30,000 of Chad's 4.5 million people had fled the war-torn country...