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Agency Director Jack Vaughn said yesterday he will take an "active role" in future deferment cases before the three-man Presidential Appeal Board. He will write letters to the board describing the circumstances in each case and urging board members to grant deferments until the end of the volunteer's overseas tour...
Those leaders will be at the convention this weekend. Robert Vaughn, co-chairman of Dissenting Democrats, Allard K. Lowenstein, co-chairman of Conference of Concerned Democrats, Martin Shephard of the Citizens for Kennedy group, and Richard Goodwin, former aide to President Kennedy who has been closely associated with dump Johnson forces recently, will speak Saturday to the Young Democrats...
...otherwise have taken place? Surely Hanoi isn't dependent upon Yale's vacation schedule for deciding how to press its foreign policy?" Or Buckley may carry an opponent's line of reasoning one step further and make it look ridiculous. On Firing Line, TV Star Robert Vaughn started naming the people he thought had conspired to commit the U.S. to the defense of Ngo Dinh Diem's regime in South Viet Nam. "Joseph Buttinger, General Edward Lansdale, Wesley Fishel, Cardinal Spellman . ." Buckley broke in: "And the Holy Ghost?" With these tactics, Buckley often reduces his adversaries...
...back on target, Vaughn has upgraded pre-assignment training until it accounts for a quarter of his budget. Instruction has been stretched from eight to 14 weeks, with a minimum of 300 hours of language tutoring. Courses are offered in 183 tongues, including Twi, Tswana, Sesotho, Pushtu, Waray-Waray and Bicolano...
Because they often combine their altruistic attitudes toward service with vociferous antipathy to the Viet Nam war, Peace Corps volunteers have sometimes been accused of dodging the draft. But Vaughn, a World War II Marine officer, ridicules the charge, pointing out that their two-year stint abroad is a deferment, not a substitute for military service. Many are called up when they return home. Draft boards have even recalled 38 corpsmen from overseas, and Vaughn fumes over the money wasted training volunteers who are inducted before they complete Peace Corps service. The real reason so many young people choose...