Word: exempt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discussing how people can fight against the war, the CP presents lists of nice-sounding wishes. People should not be drafted for unjust wars, the CP says, just as the unemployed should have jobs. If they are drafted, they should not have to fight. Apprentices ought to be exempt, VISTA workers ought to be exempt. Peace Corpsmen shouldn't have to go. The CP program sounds like an appeal for special interest groups...
...people to defeat the government's war. The CP meets the situation passively with the notion of disengagement from the "military industrial complex" (i.e., American society)--a clear impossibility for the vast majority of Americans, including students. Reduced to its essence, the CP's argument runs: if everyone were exempt, there would be no soldiers to fight the war. There is a Yiddish retort to such wishful thinking. It goes: "And if your grandmother were a trolley car...." And the question still remains: how do we unite Americans from different classes in a strong movement...
...immigrant aliens should be exempt from military service...
...primary value of the Commission's plan is that it will exempt no class from active participation in the limited, conventional wars in which the United States seems often to be engaged. As long as the 2-S continues, those who can afford higher education reside in a privileged sanctuary from the inconvenience and violence of military service...
This does not mean that the Institute's research functions will be carried out in a vacuum. Neustadt explains that the concerns of the study groups will, in all cases, "have prospective, but definitely not immediate relevance for policy-makers." But, he adds, all their activities will be exempt from any sort of outside pressure, although Neustadt feels that the members of the individual groups may wish to invite government officials to their meetings to discuss particular issues...