Word: law
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Law School professor Abram J. Chayes, speaking on the proposed Safeguard antiballistic missile system, yesterday charged the Nixon administration with asking the American people to "buy a $6.5 billion pig-in-a-poke...
...important policy reversal, the Corporation will now allow department chairmen to request personally draft deferments for graduate students in cases where deferment is justified under the law...
...practice of other universities, the Corporation is now willing to authorize departmental chairmen--or, where there are no departments, individual members of the Faculty--to make a personal request for deferment in cases where, in the judgment of the author of the letter, deferment is justified under the law...
...This is a very large change," Gerald Holton, professor of Physics and head of that department, said yesterday. "Previously Harvard University could write no letters requesting deferment, and the entire draft law depends on someone writing a letter using the word request. Otherwise the draft board would not by law be obligated to consider the letter...
...they are dangerous. I truly believe that the military is growing too strong politically, economically and socially. It is exceeding all the bounds for which it was created. What can be done? Here, I'm at a loss. Perhaps I'm dreaming, but for the future I see martial law on campuses, in cities, and even military control of the government. We are walking a slim picket fence. Think about it for a while. I would appreciate comments. Ray Brassard 11631372 3628 Student Square Lackland Air Force Base, Texas