Word: draft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Political activism does thrive on campus and doubtless makes teaching more difficult. It is possible, though, to mistake for "activism" what is only malaise. As Professor Ulam points out, few young people have the patience and temperament for four years of liberal education. Social pressures (not just the draft) are sending more students than ever to colleges and creating more and more unhappy ones...
President Nixon trumpeted the details of his fall peace offensive last week after a long prelude of press leaks. The program - draft suspension and troop withdrawal - aims transparently at lulling domestic dissent rather than stopping the shooting in Vietnam...
...month draft suspension will not calm student anger over the war in Vietnam. For one thing most students who oppose the war are exempt from the draft anyway. Only immediate and, if necessary, unilateral action to stop the fighting and remove all troops from Vietnam will win President Nixon the domestic tranquility he tried to gain last week...
...draft suspension does little to limit the American war effort. After announcing a cut-back in draft calls for the rest of the year, Administration officials admitted that 1969's call of 290,400 will lag only 5,600 behind last year's. A Washington study group, the National Council to Repeal the Draft suggests that the Administration may have inflated the summer calls to compensate for the fall cut-back...
...report, written this summer by the Overseers' Friendly Committee, was approved in draft form Friday and is now being readied for distribution late this week or early next week, Hornig said...