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...first major address since his election, and Massachusetts' Republican Senator Edward William Brooke III ranged the gamut of American problems ?from youth to the urban crisis, from disarmament to justice for minorities. Speaking in Los Angeles last week before California Republicans, Brooke devoted a major part of his address to an eloquent review of foreign policy...
...title is Humanities 10, "The Modern Sensibility." Students will study each of the three men, and individual tutors will then discuss the material in the contexts of their special fields. The tutors run the gamut of fields, including Government, History, Fine Arts, and Germanic Literature...
...come before them for questioning before deciding on classification. If the draft board denies him the status he seeks, the CO then begin the appeals procedure which usually entails another hearing before his draft board, Justice Department hearing, and a non-criminal FBI investigation. If after running the gamut of appeals within the Selective Service System, the CO is still denied his status he can take his case to the courts...
...There are individuals in every military," Meselson says, "who want to run the whole gamut of weapons." Having non-lethal weapons would not make war less lethal, he asserts. "It is a ridiculous assumption that giving field commanders weapons that don't need to kill means the commanders will not kill. What will happen is that non-lethal weapons will be used in conjunction with killers...
With peace so close at hand it is difficult to oppose the war, and the polls bear out the effectiveness of the President's move in this regard. But what the escalators ignore is the fact that they may have run their gamut. Public opinion is not likely to support outright bombing of North Vietnam's population centers. And the people will tire of this phase in the war as readily as they did of the last. That is what Thomas Adams is banking...