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...country each month (v. only about 500 a month in former years) as a result of Kenya's intensified job and economic discrimination against them. Under the new law, Britain will admit a fixed total of 1,500 Asian household heads a year, plus their dependents. This quota covers not only the Asians still in Kenya but all of the 1,000,000 ex-colonials throughout the Commonwealth who remain Britons by law, if not by color or culture...
...sting by promising that no British citizen expelled from Kenya would be denied admission to Britain-though he would not actually write the promise into the law. Later the Home Office thoroughly muddled the situation by explaining that, even if there are a few "humanitarian" admissions, the quota system will stand. That left both critics and supporters of the law so hopelessly confused that the London Times declared: "It has been a wretched affair." Whatever the precise meaning of the law, Labor's handling of the episode left no doubt that it had been just that...
...quota does not, however, cover British passport holders who have a "substantial connection" with Britain, such as a naturalized father. The entry of nonpassport holders from the Commonwealth is already limited to 8,500 a year under a 1962 quota...
Still, Sisson sees Harvard's action essentially as weathering the storm. "I think it is abominable to ask the classes of '67 and '68 to provide two-thirds of this year's draft quota" he says, "but a lot of people have panicked, and we don't intend...
...many consequences of this inane war of yours is the thwarting of humanitarian goals pursued by American Peace Corps Volunteers by your equally inane Selective Service quota system. Of course this is not to imply that those Volunteers interested primarily in saving their skin have remained secure from the draft either. The distinction between motives is irrelevant: the local boards search and destroy indiscriminately, operating in the best of democratic traditions...