Word: direct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THIS week's anti-war fast is a fruitless exercise in political impotence. At a time when effective direct action is needed most and when opportunities for it are close at hand, 400 students have been sidetracked into participating in a useless mystic exorcism...
...does present a solution by allowing the President (or the Defense Department) to direct draft boards to call the oldest men under 26 first, or 19-year-olds, or a prescribed mixture of both. But he cannot order the drafting of 19-year-olds first, working up to the older men in ascending age-sequence. The law requires inducting the oldest men first within each age-group. The Defense Department has devised infinitely variable systems to achieve the desired age mix, all of which are un- random and penalize men born early in the calendar year, fiscal year, month...
...conference opens February 16 with a dinner for the new RUS officers and legislature, Trustees, Administration, and any interested Cliffies. That night an open meeting at Hilles Library "will give the Trustees an opportunity to present their views through direct contact with students and allow students to discuss their opinions with the Trustees and Administration," Miss Batts said...
Though the Peace Corps does have the final say on how many Volunteers will be sent and for what purpose, this hardly constitutes "total administrative power," for the simple reason that most Volunteers work under the supervision, direct or indirect, of a host country national...
Within the framework of the 1967 Military Selective Service Act, the President may direct draft boards to draft first the oldest men under 26, or 19-year-olds, or a certain mixture of the two. Every scheme yet devised by the Defense Department to determine the mix is unfair to someone. Johnson is said to be leaning toward a plan under which the monthly mix would be determined by the proportion of men of each age in the eligible pool; thus if half the men in the pool are 21, half of each month's call-up would...