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...McNamara encouraged them to enlist with his "new standard" programs?mental and physical standards were lowered in 1966, supposedly to help blacks and other minorities get ahead. Alas, it merely coaxed them more quickly into the freshman class of cannon fodder. Fulton is a little off the point: the injustices of recruiting for Viet Nam involved class more than race. It was the lower-middle and lower classes, regardless of race, who went to shed blood, while their betters observed from society's good seats...
...everyone's been making fun of her. God knows how she got out here on the beltway. It's too elaborate, probably. As you're leaving she wants to talk to you, and almost everyone talks loudly and ignores her. If you stop she tells you she wants to enlist you in her plan to resurrect Elvis...
Implicit in the President's reaction to the budget vote was a threat to enlist that same kind of constituent pressure on lawmakers who fail to follow through on the rest of his economic package. Predicted Reagan: "When the people speak, Washington will now listen-and will act." Legislative strategists for the White House made little effort to conceal their optimistic belief that Reagan's popularity, coupled with his bold program, may even have forged a new coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats that will give the G.O.P. practical control of the House, despite the Democrats present...
News of the defection was received with dismayed silence in Moscow, where the name Shostakovich is revered. When an embittered posthumous volume of memoirs came out under the composer's name in the West in 1979, cultural bureaucrats sought to enlist his son in an effort to discredit the book and thus keep the official Shostakovich legend untarnished. Moscow acquaintances suggested that Maxim's frustration with his official role as keeper of his father's flame, and the increasing difficulty of obtaining visas for travel abroad, may have prompted him to take the step his troubled father...
...letter embarrassed the government. The Defense Ministry called the statement "spine-chilling and depressing," and Calvo-Sotelo even summoned the papal nuncio, Archbishop Antonio Innocenti, to enlist his aid in silencing the bishops. Innocenti declined. Although the letter accurately reflected widespread fears in Spain, it contradicted the image of calm, steady helmsmanship that Calvo-Sotelo has sought to project since the attempted coup. But the army's brooding presence is undeniable-and, in at least temporarily stifling political debate, it may have lengthened Calvo-Sotelo's lease on office...