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Pirie: To go back to a partial conscript system leads to unending pain. It won't solve any of the problems that we are talking about. I don't think that it will solve the problem of [disproportionate racial] representation or the problem of numbers. I don't think there is any way that you can conscript for quality. So you would go through a wrenching political upheaval to yield a manpower system that would have as many or more problems than the present one has. This is a way of saying that I prefer the present...
MEANWHILE, the strike continued and the Faculty passed a couple of partial measures to free students for anti-war activity. Exams were deferred, cancelled or skipped in most cases, although seniors still had to fill requirements and pass courses if they wished to graduate. Amid the potpourri of distractions the "obstructive picket lines," the non-violent direct actions, the Free University in (until it was hit by fire, at whose courtesy one may speculate) Lawrence Hall, the leaflets, the meetings, the rallies, the hearings of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (as in, went SDS chants, "get some feathers...
...current explosion of interest in the East pleases the society, but at the same time "many groups today take only a partial view of things while we see ourselves as offering an integrated whole," Catherine Holden, president of the Boston chapter, says. "Some people call us conservative, but we stand for balance and moderation in the use of esoteric knowledge. We teach meditation, but we don't play around with kundalini fire and things like that...
...government is considering some partial nationalization programs, like reclaiming ownership of mineral lands but leasing the mining operations back to their present white managements. Also under study are plans to establish self-sufficient agricultural cooperatives on newly acquired land. But Mugabe has renounced the idea of sweeping nationalization and expropriations. "We have recognized that this is a capitalistic country," he declared last week, adding inscrutably that "you cannot nationalize the structure and hope to achieve the goals of socialism...
After 1973 the stagnation of the capital-labor ratio which slows down the changes in methods of production is the largest single cause of the productivity slowdown. If the capital-labor ratio can be made to improve once more, a partial restoration of our traditional productivity performance will be assured...