Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...changes announced today are at best stop-gap measures. They should not in any way be construed as ending the debate over draft reform. Neither should they be construed as halting our efforts to make the changes recommended by the Marshall Commission and the President's message of last year...
Ending deferments for graduate students could plausibly be part of the thorough reform the Selective Service System needs. But combined with the present policy of drafting the oldest men classified 1-A first, yesterday's directive is a bit of careless expediency--clearly unfair to the students who would have filled the nation's graduate schools next year. General Hershey's statement that a random age mix could not be feasibly implemented is a commentary on the disarray of Selective Service administration, which needs reorganization as badly as its system of deferments...
Since he is retiring in April, Pearson will not be around for the fight over the crucial constitutional revisions. His successor will have the tough job of seeing the country through the reform...
About the hottest contender for Pearson's job is the man who drew up much of last week's agenda for reform and argued persuasively for its adoption. Though he has not yet said whether he wants the post, Justice Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 46, has become something of a Roman candle in the usually staid, grey world of Canadian politics-and thus a candidate without having to declare himself...
...training reform he mentioned is the "LST" program, Language Submersion Training, which demands ten hours a day, six days a week of language practice for a month. It works better than the former less intensive method--and any thing that works is okay with the corps administration, said Vaughn...