Word: draining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...optimistic election-eve report on Viet Nam, McNamara predicted that draft calls would be halved during the next four months because of a slower rate of buildup for the war. Nevertheless, Selective Service officials declared, the review of present exemptees will proceed apace, to replenish the manpower drain to date and prepare for contingencies...
...France in 1940 to work on farms or in factories. Some 5,000 are students (64 from North Viet Nam). In general, the expatriates are taller, heavier and have better teeth than their countrymen back home. Part of what a Catholic priest has described as "an unprecedented brain drain from an underdeveloped country" is an estimated 1,200 lawyers, 600 doctors (more than in all Viet Nam) and 300 engineers. High-ranking exiles include Three-Star General Nguyen Van Hinh, the army chief of staff who plotted against Premier Ngo Dinh Diem in 1954. Today he is a deputy commander...
...last week, would not be sorted out for months. For his part, Commonwealth President George W. Miller, 41, whose bank was one of the two Depression survivors, declared only a "Boy Scout's" interest in the debacle. "We didn't want to see Public go down the drain," he said. "It isn't good for banking...
...Under Secretary of State George Ball, who is on the verge of retirement, replied: "No nation, when it is confronted with a serious balance of payments deficit, can afford to see the funds it transfers work their way through the international monetary circuit and end up in a gold drain-an increase in its payments deficit-and ultimately pressure to adopt restrictive domestic policies. This point is critical to the position of my country." The U.S., said Ball, will increase its contribution only if others share the burden...
...this weren't enough, the liberal in Congress finds himself faced with an equivalent issue on civil rights as the white backlash becomes more and more a force to be reckoned with. "Slow down," says Senator Mansfield, and one more presumed supporter of Negro demands goes down the drain. The 1966 civil rights bill--a modest attempt to do away with a really minor part of a much vaster problem--gets buried in the process...