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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact that South Viet Nam's leadership, which has balked before at certain U.S. conciliation moves, approved of every major point. President Thieu, in fact, read a final draft of the speech and objected to nothing-including the possibility of holding elections before the constitutionally scheduled date, and U.S. willingness to allow the neutralization of South Viet Nam. Neutralization, which many Saigon politicians fear will lead to takeover by the North, remains officially anathema in South Viet Nam; at least one politician is still in jail for having advocated it as a solution of the war. However, Thieu evidently...
Scrambled Year. The government would establish a "prime age group" of 19-year-olds and draw from its ranks. Birth dates would determine the order of priority, but they would be arranged randomly instead of chronologically. A "Selective Service year" would be constructed annually. It could begin with any date, say Oct. 17, followed by other ad hoc choices: Jan. 4, July 20, April 27 and so on. The 365 dates would probably be drawn from a fishbowl, as were the numbers of the first draftees in World War II. Young men born on the first date in the scrambled...
...knew that his birth date fell in the latter half of the sequence, he could pretty well forget about military service at present draft levels because only about half of the potential 600,000-man pool would be taken. If he made it through his 19th year without being drafted, he would be free unless a national emergency occurred that exhausted the supply of 19-year-olds...
...unearthed the remains of Solomon's mighty city gates, three separate Canaanite temples, basalt slabs engraved with hands praying to the sun, and an Israelite temple similar to Solomon's but built 300 years before his time. From the ruins, Yadin was able to establish the date of Joshua's conquest of Canaan as the late 13th century B.C. At one level, a thick layer of ash provided grisly evidence that Assyrian King Tiglath-pileser III had put Hazor to the torch...
...Howells on an affluent and unsuspecting public. Hunter, an irritatingly egocentric critic and an excessive film-maker, can nonetheless sleep secure in the knowledge that even less able juveniles are pointing their cameras through forbidden windows. The Lampoon, if it ever decides to get it together at some future date, would do well to keep track of them...