Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Several CO's have hit on a common approach, though. They privately interpret "war in any form" to mean "war in any form that it can take, given the international environment while I am eligible for the draft." They proceed to note that the nuclear stalemate makes World War II situations out of the question. The nature of war has changed. The only type of warfare conceivable under present circumstances is in guerrilla or counter-guerrilla intervention, which they say is by nature unjust. If the only possible type of war is the Vietnam form, the reasoning goes...
...Sancho Panza, rode Liu's chief ally against Mao, Party Secretary Teng Hsiao-ping. A less kind cartoon showed Liu as a barking dog being drowned under the sun of Mao's teachings, and Liu's wife was crudely caricatured as a prostitute. That catty note may well have been the inspiration of Mrs. Mao, who likes to go by her screen name of Chiang Ching, which she acquired as a grade B bit actress in Shanghai in the 1930s. In the last two months, she has emerged from 25 years of obscurity to take over...
Unlike the presentation of the last resolution, the new motion is not accompanied by a detailed "explanatory note." Rawls believes the last note was sufficient to explain the case against the deferments...
...Conscription," the note declared, "is a drastic interference with the basic liberties of a free society and cannot be justified by any needs less compelling than those of national security...The present system grants deferments on a large scale for weak reasons of social interest [and, as a result,] the hardships and risks of compulsory military service fall disproportionately on the poor, the less intelligent, and the less well educated...
...schoolchildren, tourists and moneymen, all such variations will officially disappear with decimalization. They will be replaced by six coins: a halfpenny (worth 1.2 present pennies), a penny, a twopence piece, a 5-pence piece, a 10-pence piece and a 50-pence piece (worth, like the current 10-shilling note, half a pound). The pound will remain but the decimal system means that a price will be written as ?3.33. The sum can then be converted to dollars, simply by multiplying by 2.8, and the simplification may cut bookkeeping time by an estimated...