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Kenneth Katz makes several good points in his editorial "The Draft Is Only Fair" (February 25). He correctly notes that many antiwar, and some pro-war, students are more concerned about their own lives than about anything else. His desire for universal conscription is also commendable, though I don't completely agree with him on the reasons for implementing it. But the editorial is fraught with misconceptions and factual errors, and these popular myths need to be dispelled...
Although Katz cites the revision of the draft policy in 1968, he nonetheless asserts that "during the Vietnam War...poorer, Black Americans did most of the fighting and dying." As I pointed out in the most recent issue of The Salient, 12.5 percent of the U.S. dead in Vietnam were Black (while 86.3 percent were white) during a time when 13.5 percent of the military age population was Black. Katz's statement, in addition to being false, is a blatant affront to the whites who risked their lives in Vietnam...
...arrived in New York City on Nov. 15, just as the U.N. Security Council was debating a resolution that would establish a deadline for an Iraqi withdrawal. In an interview in the New York Times, I proposed postponing the adoption of that resolution. The draft of such a resolution could have been meaningful if the possibility of its adoption had been hung like the Sword of Damocles over Iraq. However, it seemed to me that if such a resolution became a reality, then the field for action would be narrowed. And I was firmly convinced that psychologically, for Saddam...
Strong, who will serve as secretary-general for the 1992 conference, said that two major goals of the conference will be to draft an "Earth Charter," a guideline of principles for relations between nations and the earth, and to establish an environmental agenda for the 21st Century...
...full council will vote next March on the 80-page draft, which comes out of months of meetings of the city's Committee on Civil and Human Rights...