Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White Book assumes that 1) the Bundeswehr budget will remain close to $5.5 billion annually for several years, 2) troop strength will stay at the current 460,000 level, and 3) the draft will continue for the moment. From there, the report envisions far-reaching ' changes, all designed to boost morale...
Since her husband David Harris was imprisoned for draft evasion, said Folk Singer Joan Baez, she has made a career of all the causes-peace, civil rights, ecology. All, that is, except women's liberation. "I can't take it seriously," explained Joan. "I mean, if I'm carrying my guitar and my baby, and my husband's in jail, I'm not going to yell at some guy who holds the door open...
...class orator, warned that "A new patriotism will require, as a first step, that we separate ourselves from many of our nation's current practices," In his conversational but pained speech, he explained, "I think the decision we must make is to withdraw our cooperation [from the draft], to refuse to serve in an army that bears any resemblance to the one we have...
...Those people-those who are waiting for that draft-free vacation in the sky-are often hard to find. You may not know any of them. You should...
...home. Therefore it seems very likely that the next few months will see the Administration try to settle in for the long haul in Vietnam by smoothing out the rough edges of the war and trying to make it a little easier for the American public to accept. The draft can be "reformed" to take the pressure off troublesome college students. In time the policy of phased reductions might actually reduce the troop commitment in Vietnam to 200,000 men or even fewer. The military command in Vietnam may be able to substitute even heavier air strikes for the costly...