Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the haste and absence of controversy surrounding Congress' recent four-year extension of the draft, critics of the bill have wondered why there has been little pressure from college students to change a system that seems, to them, unimaginative, unfair, and somewhat hypocritical. Assuming that students constitute a group most personally interested in draft legislation, the critics wonder whether lack of information, lack of patriotism, or a sense of fatalism has caused the silent acquiescence with which colleges have greeted the extension...
Scraps of Paper. West Berlin, said Ike in his speech draft, is not just a city 4,000 miles away-seven hours by jet flight-but is the symbol of the free world. Khrushchev's talk-threat to renounce the Big Four agreements and impose a new blockade fitted Lenin's definition that "promises are like piecrusts, made to be broken." Free men have died before for so-called scraps of paper that represented duty, honor and freedom. Said Ike: "Let the Soviets remember...
Fidel Castro is plainly convinced that in the realm of definitive justice, nothing beats a firing squad-even if Cuba's constitution forbids capital punishment. Last week he announced that his government would draft a new law demanding firing-squad executions for embezzlers of government money...
...addition to describing the past history of the draft, the report will discuss the recently extended Selective Service statute and its passage in Congress. Suggestions and criticism by various organizations and individuals will also be included, Freilicher noted...
Freilicher characterized the pamphlet as an "impartial and comprehensive study" that will be "mainly educative and advisory rather than an attempt to force a policy on ADA." An ADA committee on national defense will consider the report in determining its stand on the draft...