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...jettisoned into the sea from a cruise liner were recently recovered by an Icelandic toymaker. These letters have been united with a similar collection unearthed last spring by an Arabian goatherd, and the complete set is now in my posession. They prove beyond doubt that the Friends of Sisyphus Youth League, led by senior and presumed Trotskyoid Tom Careen, and the Conversative Club, led by senior and presumed Monarchoid Sy Kahane, have aims far different than these shallow impressions indicate...
...fondest congratulations on your appoinment to the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade's junior division. I'm sure your work at the helm of the movement will be very rewarding for you personally....I of course continue to hold pronounced differences with your political tendencies...but the prospect of your new command nevertheless increases the already deep respect I feel for you as an individual...
BOTH EDUCATORS AND lawmakers have recently taken up an initiative to increase the opportunities for young people to engage in public service. New and augmented programs are entirely appropriate; voluntary youth service, as promulgated both here at Harvard and in Washington, can do nothing but benfit all involved...
...resources from more effective social programs. while the idea of voluntary service is a noble one, such service loses its key component--altruism--when mandated by law. And no matter how effective the results, national service which relies on coercion is an infringement on the freedom of America's youth. We believe that instead, the government would do better to create greater incentives for voluntary service, such as augmenting the new G.I. bill to include education benefits for civil as well as military service...
Nevertheless, such illustrious neo-liberals as Sen. Gary Hart (D-Colo.) claim that the national service plan will instill American youth with necessary citizenship values, at the same time rejuvenating America's failing social commitment and bolstering her lackluster conventional forces. In one plan, outlined by Rep. Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.) at the Kennedy School last month, all 18-year-old Americans will choose whether to serve in civil or military service. However, if a youth chooses civil service but has no necessary skills for social programs, such as the Peace Corps or Teacher Corps, he may be sent...