Word: deferements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Israel, facing yet another climactic point in her 19-year struggle for survival (see cover), remains the biggest imponderable. Last week Premier Levi Eshkol indicated that he would defer an immediate riposte to Nasser's challenge, saying that he had decided on the "continuation of political activity in the international sphere." But he is under heavy domestic pressure to act, and the point may soon come when he will be forced to choose between political oblivion and a move against the Arabs...
...from Hello, Dolly!-Westmoreland briefed the guests and alluded once more to antiwar protest back home. He quoted North Vietnamese Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap's comment that the home-front controversy reflected widespread lack of support for the war in the U.S., then told the audience: "I defer to your judgment in this regard. It is the central consideration...
...their work took form, the coauthors disputed over its content. Ten years passed. In 1938, at a final meeting in London, they reached agreement, but out of compassion decided to defer publication until the death of Wlison's second wife, Edith Gait. She died five years ago, and the book-presumably unrevised since 1938-has now been released...
...China's need for "security and friendly relations with her neighboring country." He pointedly refrained from announcing any decision to build a U.S. anti-missile system-a peaceable gesture he followed up at week's end with a message to Moscow that urged the Russians to defer deploying their own anti-missile defense in the interest of furthering world disarmament. "We have the solemn duty," said the President, "to slow down the arms race between us, if that is at all possible, in both conventional and nuclear weapons and defenses...
Although AFSC provides counseling on all phases of CO procedure, Harvard CO's have only gotten as far as filing form 150. The draft boards invariably acknowledge receipt of 150 and proceed to defer the student, II-S. CO claimants are eligible for all the usual deferments and draft boards are eager to put off deciding a CO claim as long as possible. In fact, a sophomore with a II-S who wrote his board a letter declaring his conscientious objection and requesting a Form 150 to file was told that he didn't have to fill out the form...