Word: umsted
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...inadequacy will make no difference, for the tide will have run out permanently. If Speaker Rayburn and Representative Vinson are really looking at the moon, and not some incandescent globe they have set up themselves, they will stop trying to appease hostile Representatives and present Congress with a full UMST program...
...UMST went to Congress in the form of two bills. In the first, the House watered down the original plan almost beyond recognition, and passed what was left "in principle" only. The second bill, which was intended to implement the first, merely completed the damage. As it emerged from this process last week, UMST had been thoroughly altered...
Congress had transformed it into a mixture of Selective Service and Universal Military Training; UMS had been altogether purged. Now called UMT (as opposed to UMST), the new version would give all eighteen-year-olds six months of training and put them in the reserves for seven and one-half years more. Beyond this point, army-raising would operate at it does now. The Armed Forces would induct reservists as well as men in the nineteen to twenty-six age group by means of Selective Service...
...main fault is that it is a compromise between necessity and the demands of vociferously anti-UMST voters. Originators of the first UMST bill, who drew up their project without pressure from emotional constituents, had the only solution to the current draft muddle: elimination of Selective Service and institution...
...this into effect, Congress must not only amend the Selective Service Act, but also enact the UMST program it adopted "in principle" last year. Because Army demands are due to grow--and with them the confusion inherent in the present system--a prompt beginning on some program of universal pre-college service is essential...