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Pirie: To go back to a partial conscript system leads to unending pain. It won't solve any of the problems that we are talking about. I don't think that it will solve the problem of [disproportionate racial] representation or the problem of numbers. I don't think there is any way that you can conscript for quality. So you would go through a wrenching political upheaval to yield a manpower system that would have as many or more problems than the present one has. This is a way of saying that I prefer the present...
...U.S.S.R. has 31 divisions in Eastern Europe: four are stationed in Hungary, with which Yugoslavia shares a common border. At week's end, however, Washington officials were satisfied that the troop movements involved routine Warsaw Pact maneuvers and were related to events in Afghanistan rather than Yugoslavia. Conscript units were apparently being rotated from Eastern Europe to replace the reserve forces that had spearheaded the invasions...
Moscow's army of occupation was substantially larger than Afghanistan's own military forces. Kabul's conscript forces, once more than 100,000 strong, had been reduced to fewer than 65,000 by defections. Morale was further eroded by Soviet commanders, who ordered the disarming of Afghan battalions considered to be of suspect loyalty. Consequently, Soviet troops have had to take on an increasing share of the combat against the rebels, who still control about 80% of Afghanistan's barren countryside...
...After November 6," King said, "Boston City Hall will no longer be a haven for political hacks and a source of conscript labor to advance the electoral fortunes of the incumbent mayor...
...last convulsions of northern romanticism; and like all romantic painting, it was essentially an art of subject matter. The expressionist attitude lay at the opposite pole of experience from the sensuous, Cartesian quality of French art. At the time Kirchner painted his self-portrait in conscript's uniform, France had also experienced-from the other side of the trenches-the horrors of total war. But nothing by a major French painter in those traumatic years resembled Kirchner's paroxysm of self-pity-the haggard artist displaying the raw (but fictional) stump of his amputated painting hand becomes...