Word: provisionally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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> UNDERGRADUATE DEFERMENTS. On the politically sensitive question of continuing deferments for full-time students, Johnson took no firm stand and neither did the Senate. The House bill requires that these deferments be maintained up to age 24 unless the President determines that military-manpower needs demand the induction of collegians...
Last week the Supreme Court upheld the California decision. Speaking for a narrow, five-man majority, Justice Byron R. White declared that in its decision the California Supreme Court had not forbidden Californians either to repeal fair-housing laws or to enact laws making the state "neutral." All it did...
The most pernicious provision in the House bill is the veto power it gives Congress over any national draft lottery, the Free and Impartial Random [FAIR] system proposed by the President. The Senate, despite some apprehensions about FAIR, made no attempt to hamstring the President; the conference committee should follow...
The draft will remain inequitable--even with the lottery--if the second major fault in the House bill is not corrected: the provision for a continuation of undergraduate deferments. It is quite probable, unfortunately, that the conference committee will accede to the House on this crucial issue. While the Senate...
Discarded too--if the House has its way--will be the several years worth of careful court litigation required so far to arrive at just procedures for the treatment of conscientious objectors. The House bill demands a return to the old requirement of objection solely on grounds of "religious training...