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...spring of 1955, Lewis B. Hershey,director of the Selective Service System,announced that college students would no longer begranted automatic deferments from the draft.Instead, eligibility to serve in the militarywould be determined by class rank withinindividual colleges and by a national draft examgiven to all male undergraduates...
...Cannes Film Festival proceeded as sedately as a Riviera quilting bee. Nice little films from odd little countries made some brief impression on the 30,000 assembled producers, distributors and journalists, only to be filed away and forgotten. Celebrities of the high second rank -- France's Isabelle Adjani, Britain's Terence Stamp, China's Gong Li -- stopped by to promote their films and to underline, by their presence, the absence of any world- class megastars except for Clint Eastwood, who was serving as president of this year's festival jury. Even the weather, which brings more folks to this Cote...
Brown could win a majority for confirmation if not for a Republican filibuster, which requires 60 votes to break. Last week cloture failed 56 to 42. The President has the option of sending Brown to the CSCE without ambassadorial rank, but that would hurt American credibility. So another vote will be taken after the Memorial Day recess. In the meantime, an aide to Senator Brown called the Browns' old phone number the day after the vote and happened to get Brown's wife, who was moving a few last boxes. She stood in her kitchen, now gutted...
...last week, angering many in the DEA, who take the event very seriously. In fact, Reno is the first Attorney General in 11 years not to attend or at least send a proxy. Reno's excuse: she had to go to a school event with Clinton. At the FBI, rank and filers have been irked by Reno's fondness for what they regard as silly p.r. events -- one senior executive there was placed on unpaid leave for publicly criticizing...
...keep an eye on her, since she has staked out a separate role as leader of the most militant and potentially violent of the township proletariat -- especially the gun-toting youth gangs. While the A.N.C.'s top echelon is mostly moderate, almost 50% of its 1 million rank-and- file members are in the militant camp. If reforms begin to slip and there is no tangible progress in a year or so, Mandela may find his fiercest challenger is his fiery, camouflage-clad wife. "Winnie," says Tom Lodge, an authority on South African political movements, "is an instinctive populist...