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...those, particularly recently, who support a Universal National Service plan are missing the mark. A mandatory military or civilian draft program would fail to achieve its own stated objectives. It would foster resentment instead of patriotism, favor the advantaged over the disadvantaged, and divert federal resources from more effective social programs. while the idea of voluntary service is a noble one, such service loses its key component--altruism--when mandated by law. And no matter how effective the results, national service which relies on coercion is an infringement on the freedom of America's youth. We believe that instead...
...sorely tempted to find a way to encourage his coalition partner to topple the government and force elections. Otherwise, under the national unity coalition agreement, he must turn over the Prime Minister's job to Shamir in October. But in the meantime, Peres plans to do nothing that would divert him from nailing down the talks with Hussein...
...effort. In India, for example, where the government insists there have not been any confirmed cases, health officials are at odds over whether to take preventive action. Dr. D.B. Bisht, director- general of Indian government health services, complains that other "high- priority programs will suffer because of pressure to divert funds from them to anti-AIDS programs. We can't afford this, since there is no evidence of AIDS." Dr. I.S. Gilada, secretary of the Indian Health Organization, considers this a head-in-the-sand attitude. "There is no special immunity to AIDS that Asians enjoy," he says...
...reason minority youths cannot find jobs or read and write is because too little money is spent to teach them how. A draft won't solve this problem in our society, and it will divert our attention from the root of the problem...
...with G-Z, as NASA scientists call it, could occur six months ahead of the Halley encounter. Farquhar began petitioning NASA officials to spend the meager $3 million it would take to commandeer ISEE-3. To his surprise, the allocation was approved before he had figured out how to divert the craft. "It may have turned out not to be possible," he says, "but at that point there was no backing...