Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your statement in "FAIR Shake" [March 10] that eliminating deferments for most graduate students "will all but eliminate graduate schools as a draft haven" demands comment. Such a policy could all but eliminate this country. The most formidable enemy facing not only this country but the entire human species is ignorance. Our survival may well depend upon whether some gifted kid is permitted to serve with brains and a slide-rule instead of with muscles and a rifle...
...party's concern, Vice President Hubert Humphrey-and Senator Robert Kennedy followed Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman to the National Farmers Union convention in Oklahoma City. Speaking for the Administration, Humphrey pledged farmers an "honest deal" in Washington. "It is time," he said, "that the American farmer received a fair share of our national prosperity. The gap between farm income and income in other parts of our economy-the prosperity gap-must be eliminated." It made fine campaign oratory, but the truth is that the Johnson Administration can do only so much in the face of the harsh eco nomic...
...Richard Speck, 25, the adrift seaman who is accused of murdering eight student nurses in Chicago last July. A middle-aged pastry cook from Peoria, 111., assured a quizzical prosecutor, "I've not discussed the case nor heard anything about it on the radio. I'd be fair, all right." Yet when Speck's court-appointed attorney, Gerald Getty, asked her if she thought she could honestly find Speck innocent, she shook her head and replied, "No, it was taking life, after all." She was excused -as 431 other veniremen have been in the four weeks since...
...Germany's intransigent Walter Ulbricht, an old Communist who has yet to come in from the cold. Ulbricht lavished praise on the Soviet Union's exhibit-considered by most Western fairgoers to be Russia's most mediocre in years. And he notably managed to ignore the fair's biggest (and perhaps best) exhibit: that of West Germany...
West Germany, which still does not recognize Ulbricht's government diplomatically, is all in favor of stepping up trade. Economics Minister Karl Schiller last month urged West German businessmen to attend the Leipzig Fair. Bonn later adopted a Schiller proposal for expanded credit guarantees to West German firms trading with East Germany. Finally, Bonn has put off for a year-until June 30, 1968-the repayment deadline for some $100 million in trade deficits already owed by East Germany...