Word: exempt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Council of Education, the most powerful university lobby, has failed to find a philosophical argument for II-S that would sway the dullest head. The II-S is, however, convenient: with the draft pool now twice as big as the military requires some way must be found to exempt men. It also maintains the colleges as a source of ROTC officers, and "channels" -- to use the Selective Service word -- young men into careers which serve the national purpose...
...that a draft is necessary to supply the military, but contends that other forms of service should be voluntary. They would offer young men (and women, in some versions) a chance to volunteer for military or non-military service. A term in some Peace-Corps-like agency would not exempt a man from the draft, but it would put his name at the bottom of what Selective Service cheerfully names the order or call. In anything but a general mobilization he would not be touched...
...group would also like to seek workman's compensation, especially in the science areas, as well as a tax-exempt status for salaries, an organizer said. She pointed to last year's cyclotron explosion, when several injured teaching fellows received no compensation...
...Israeli troops on Nov. 12. "It is regrettable," said Eshkol, "that this particular act of aggression came from Jordan." But since it did, he picked Jordan as his target. "No country where the saboteurs find shelter and through whose territory they pass on their way to Israel can be exempt from responsibility...
...says. "If we lose, we lose everything." In its desperation, New York has set up a Public Development Corporation, headed by General Lucius Clay, to tempt industry by assembling sites. Adopting a controversial scheme that began in the South, the corporation also plans to finance some plants with tax-exempt bonds...