Word: pre
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Draft Resistance group specializes in loopholes. "There are 14,000 different ways to get out," Mungo proclaims. It is perfectly legal, for example, to refuse to sign the security oath at the pre-induction physical, and you don't even have to give a reason for refusing. The army generally doesn't want anything to do with non-signers and classifies them 1-Y, Mungo explains...
Mungo also claims that many more people can be saved from the draft on the grounds of physical disability. He said that many young men who are eligible for 4-F miss out because they don't bring medical documentation to their pre-induction physical...
...resistors spend a lot of time at the Boston Army Base leafletting the men undergoing their physicals. They tell the pre-inductees, among other things, that they still have 21 days after their physical in which to present new evidence of eligibility for a 4-F deferment...
...engine planes to begin transoceanic flights from their airfields because the ensuing air-sea rescue missions were costing Canada too much time and money. Now that the planes and pilots are better, the Canadians have relaxed their regulations, but they still insist that every small plane undergo a thorough pre-takeoff inspection at Moncton...
...while Deputy W. Michael Blumenthal handled the signing, that under the new deal the industrial nations of the Kennedy Round would come out pretty much "in balance." The Common Market, long under fire for its unconscionably discriminatory duties, will gradually revert to the low tariff level of Germany in pre-Common Market days. Still, the Six would not tinker at all with high rates on electronic computers, automated machine tools, helicopters and other items vulnerable to technologically superior outside competition. The U.S. reduced duties on 6,000 imports. The maximum 50% tariff cuts should please foreign manufacturers in many areas...