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...Vietnamese teachers how to say "I surrender"-and were haughtily ignored by the tough former army men. After 450 hours of study, the volunteers feel they have barely grasped the hang of basic Vietnamese. Yet it is their language capability, plus their specialized knowledge of tropical agriculture, that will distinguish the county agents as the best prepared workers the U.S. has sent to Viet...
...part of the one-vote majority in both cases, Justice Abe Fortas took pains to point out in a concurring Spevack opinion that a lawyer is not an employee of the state and therefore has no responsibilities to it other than that of fulfilling licensing requirements. "I would distinguish," he wrote, "between a lawyer's right to remain silent and that of a public employee who is asked questions specifically, directly, and narrowly relating to the performance of his official duties...
...would you do if someone were raping your grandmother?" Almost any CO would agree to use force to prevent the crime. Then the draft board asks, "Are you just approving whatever use of force benefits you, and rejecting that which would inconvenience you?" The CO must be prepared to distinguish between the use of force to prevent rape and the use of force in war. He must state clearly why one use of force is acceptable to him while the other...
...they harm themselves and society.... It is the use of violence to which I object. Unlike the force employed by police, the violence employed by a state waging war is not used with the consent, or for the welfare, of those against whom it is directed; it does not distinguish between guilty and innocent, but devastates everything within range, destroying infants as well as adults, common people as well as leaders...
...have to distinguish the "black market monopolies," dealing in forbidden goods, from the racketeering enterprises. It is the black market monopolies that depend on the law itself. Without the law and some degree of enforcement there is no presumption that the organization can survive competition--or, if it could survice competition once it is established, that it could have arisen in the first place as a monopoly in the face of competition. Some rackets, too, depend on the law itself--some labor rackets, some blackmail, even some threats to enforce the law with excessive vigor. But it is the black...