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Even before the 1,698 pages got to Congress, events threatened to overtake the budget. The Reserve forces called up cost $10 million a month while on active duty, and if they are kept in that status, the cost reduction of 13,000 mustered-out servicemen predicted by the budget will be canceled out. What further ripples will spread from the U.S.S. Pueblo can only be guessed...
...example, Lipset claims that the leftish, militant Students for a Democratic Society have only 7,000 members among the na tion's 6.5 million university students. By contrast, the Young Democrats and Young Republicans have a combined enrollment of nearly 250,000. Lipset also believes that on both the left and right, far more students were activists in the 1930s than are so today...
...barely a day old when France adopted it last week. Hardly famous for their international cooperation, the French acted chiefly in response to internal pressures-but that will not diminish the result. Concerned over 4½% (and still rising) unemployment, the Gaullist regime took steps to pump $675 million of new spending money into the sluggish French economy. The government raised family allowances (which form a major part of the income of the poor) by 41%, boosted old-age pensions by $20 a year, and granted a 15% cut in personal income tax payments due Feb. 15. The Cabinet also...
...Somewhere down below there's a half a million people...
Martin Peretz asked why there was no American Student Union against the draft and the war of half a million students at the least. It was a disturbing challenge. Why, indeed, is there no massive student protest of the war? The CRIMSON poll suggests that a significant number of seniors were considering either leaving the country or going to jail in order to avoid induction. These are pretty drastic acts. The poll also showed that 94 per cent of the sample was against the present U.S. policy in Vietnam. But why are Harvard anti-war demonstrations so meager, so self...