Word: drafted
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...averting revolution. Huntington also advocated the use of "mechanical and conventional power"--bombing--in rural areas threatened by the National Liberation Front to force the population in to urban centers, where they could easily be controlled by the South Vietnamese government. While perhaps technically efficient, this policy of "forced draft urbanization and modernization" exacted tremendous human costs...
...from these forms the thread of continuity through what is basically a stream of anecdotes. Thus the diarists are stuck with stupid appellatives--Clare Smith, a 17 year old high school student from Ohio, becomes The Youngest Delegate; Fritz Efaw, an ex-MIT student now living abroad, becomes The Draft Dodger Delegate; Dick Celeste, Ohio's lieutenant-governor on the way up, becomes The Young Pol. And friends, one may be assured that after over 200 pages and the deaths of a lot of trees, they lead as boring a life as even...
...very few heroes at Reeves convention, but one of the few is Fritz Efaw. Efaw, a Vietnam war resister, came back to America for the first time in seven years as an alternate delegate for Americans living abroad, only to be slapped with extradition papers from his Oklahoma draft board. He finally had his name placed into nomination for vice president, after refusals by Ramsey Clark and Milton Shapp, by paralyzed Vietnam vet Ron president, after refusals by Ramsey Clark and Milton Shapp, by paralyzed Vietnam vet Ron Kovic. At the end of the week, Efaw found that the charges...
...President enlisted his Cabinet as working partners in the crisis. Straw-bossing the operation was Energy Chief James Schlesinger, who helped draft the natural gas bill and cut red tape to get gas supplies moving. When Carter left his Cabinet meeting, he put Schlesinger in charge of a "more thorough discussion." Says a White House aide: "Schlesinger has been a sort of battlefield commander. He's been in the middle of the fray, not in a tower in the White House." An early riser, Schlesinger has been calling his aides at 7a.m. "Jim has imparted a sense of urgency...
...Huntington of that same Government Department that gave the bourgeoisie Daniel P. Moynihan and Henry Kissinger, is in the running for Peanut King Carter's team as a member of the armed fist of U.S. imperialism, the Department of Defense. Huntington was the author of the infamous "forced draft urbanization" theory used as a justification for the massive bombing campaign which decimated the Vietnamese countryside and slaughtered thousands of civilians...