Word: iac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also empowers the National Security Council--in effect the President, since he heads it--to grant deferments for graduate study in additional fields "essential to the national interest." The President had the Interagency Advisory Committee compile a list of such fields. In its confidential December report, the IAC recommended deferments for students in "the earth, biological, natural, and physical sciences"; "education related to critical occupations"; engineering; linguistics; mathematics; psychology; and pharmacology...
...report was forwarded to IAC chairman Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz, who was thought to have sent it immediately to the White House. But before Christmas, it was learned that the report was still sitting on Wirtz's desk, more than two weeks after completion...
...recommendations: Wirtz doesn't think the country needs educational or occupational deferments. In testimony before a Senate sub-committee last March, he said that once the present system is changed, there will be no justification on the basis of civilian manpower needs for any educational or occupational deferments. The IAC had assumed the continued use of the oldest-first system in making its recommendations. At the very most, the President might defer men studying nuclear physics...