Word: planning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...initial worldwide reaction indicates that the plan may be backfiring. Many European nations have taken up the cry of Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, who begged the U.S. to "save the world from holocaust" by holding back on the nukes. China has taken a more disturbing step: a week after Wheeler's testimony, Chou En-lai promised to send some of China's new nuclear weapons to Hanoi if necessary...
Senator J. W Fulbright has rightly called for a Congressional investigation of the U.S. war policy, and Senator John S. Cooper's suggestion that the Foreign Relations Committee hold open hearings on how to institute peace negotiations could be even more useful. Cooper's plan could place the weight of the whole Foreign Relations Committee behind a critical examination of the war--not just individual dissenting senators...
...term "displacement effect" conceals the nature of what one administration source termed the "toughest problem" in the percentage plan. The "problem" was simply that under the percentage plan about 80,000 fewer first-year graduate students would have been drafted than under oldest first, and their places would have had to be filled by men who have never held a II-S, mainly Negroes and members of other economically-disadvantages groups...
...Vietnam war has already been criticized as a "black man's war" and twice as many Negroes as whites have died in combat. Realizing that criticism was sure to accompany a plan that would draft a greater proportion of Negroes, the President decided that retaining oldest first was the most politically sound move. Graduate students have already been attacked for their privileged deferred status, and he realized that drafting them was least likely to provoke widespread criticism outside the academic community. So far he has been right...
...They plan to talk to other students, find out their problems with the draft, and enlist their membership in the Union, according to the adopted resolutions...