Word: fightingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They-and We-Fight Sir: Of all the reasons given for the successes of the Viet Cong in South Viet Nam [Aug. 25], none was so important as the statement of the U.S. official that "Viet Nam's traditional society doesn't offer much in the way of opportunity...
However, most economists and sensible social reformers agree with Pres ident Johnson that the world's most affluent nation can afford to fight a war abroad and simultaneously raise its standards of life and opportunity at home. The $25 billion a year or more that the U.S. is pouring into Viet Nam could not in any case be simply redeployed from the prosecution of a war to the pacification of U.S. cities. Nonetheless, the instant switch is an appealing notion...
Clarion Notice. "We are of the opinion," the Senators said, "that we cannot in good conscience ask our ground forces to continue their fight in South Viet Nam unless we are prepared to press the air war in the North in the most effective way possible. What is needed now is to take the risks that have to be taken and apply the force that is required to see the job through...
...Religious Objectors to such openly political outfits as Boston's Draft Resistance Group and Chicago's CADRE, the draft-counseling movement shares widely differing long-range goals. But the immediate aim of all is much the same: to aid the man who does not want to fight. Traditionally, the avenue of escape has been conscientious objection...
Abandoning the Fight. Many of the nonreligious groups, which see in draft resistance a means of opposing the war, are openly in business to find the easier ways. They look for legitimate deferments a man might have but not be aware of, sometimes aid him in discovering a "trick knee," "asthmatic condition" or "homosexual tendencies" that he might never have known existed...