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...principal reason that there is serious debate about the draft at this time (as opposed to 1963, for example, when a vote on this issue last came up in Congress, and a group of pacifists led a little known campaign to abolish conscription) is that our government is fighting an undeclared, unpopular, and unjust war in Vietnam. Without the draft this war could not be fought; without an increased manpower pool, it could not be escalated. Our opposition to the draft is part and parcel of our opposion to the war in Vietnam and American aggression all over the world...
...training (unprecedented in "peacetime" before World War II), but an allowance for the needs of the industrial side of the military-industrial complex. Today, when the need for such trained personnel in industry has diminished relative to the need for them in the military, there is a move to abolish the deferment, to throw the less fortunate students into the army...
Refulgent Resorts. Tito has begun 1967 just as spectacularly. On Jan. 1, Yugoslavia opened its borders to all foreigners, becoming the first Communist country to abolish visas. At the same time, the 300,000 Yugoslavs (out of 20 million) who are employed outside the country, mostly in Western Europe, have no difficulty returning or departing. One good reason: they send home $70 million a year. To be sure, Tito still holds Author Mihajlo Mihajlov (Moscow Summer) in prison for attempting to establish an "opposition" political magazine, but many Western publications are now available in Yugoslavia. Much of Yugoslavia...
Under the initiative of John P. Elder, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Donald Cooke, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Cornell, the Association decided last October to set up a committee to study the possibility of political pressure to abolish the oath and recommend appropriate action...
...America's responsibility to show the world the way to abolish CB warfare, Meselson's activity reflects the idea that it is the scientists' responsibility to convince America to do it. Scientists do not usually lead political movements for a variety of reasons, including the fact they do not want government to restrict their freedom in science, so they reciprocate in advance. But on certain issues, these men who create in laboratories feel that they understand their offspring better than the government which charges itself with the responsibility of bringing up the child. It happened to physicists after World...