Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...local boards apply in granting deferments and exemptions may be imprecise and inequitable; they may waste human resources and stimulate a "draft-evasion mentality." But until the fighting ends, any major reform would risk undermining the morale of soldiers previously drafted, who might consider themselves the victims of an unfair system. Reorganizing the entire structure -- from the local boards up -- would create a period of confusion and uncertainty, further impairing the war effort and this country's position in Vietnam...
...compound the confusion. When a crime involves more than one defendant, most prosecutors aim to try them together; indeed, joint trials have occurred in many of the most famous U.S. criminal cases. But what if one defendant's confession implicates another? Is the use of such evidence so unfair to a man who has not confessed that it must be excluded...
...much information," says Galbraith. But won't future books offer a much better perspective? Says Author Theodore H. White, who has written a good deal of instant history himself: "It's not that the future will write it better-just different." Schlesinger himself replies that "it is unfair to wait until other participants in events recounted are dead-grossly unfair. People who are alive can make their own answers, and the clash of judgments enriches the record...
...mists have now set in for good over John F. Kennedy. It is hard to realize that these books deal with the same man. In fact, they don't; "Sorensen's Kennedy" and "Schlesinger's Kennedy," are different people, and perhaps it is not unfair to suggest that each resembles his author more than a little...
...first complaint about this weekend's demonstrators is that they are "draft dodgers." It is unfair to level this criticism at all the demonstrators, just as it would be naive to assume that those who did not march would cheerfully accept a military future. It is true that several demonstrators may have breached specific draft laws. One protestor publicly burned his draft card, and it has been alleged (and denied) that Berkeley Students for a Democratic Society circulated literature urging illegal methods of draft evasion. For these crimes there are stiff penalties, and objectors who resort to civil disobedience must...