Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...STRONGEST ARGUMENT against draft registration--one that should make as much sense to the man or woman afraid our military has gone to pot as to the student whose political mythology crystallizes around the Vietnam war--is that it answers no current military need, fills no breaches in our national barricades. It is the form of national defense without the substance. Its proponents recite a list of indictments against the volunteer army (which the Defense Department, characteristically, calls the "All Volunteer Force" or AVF): its recruiting techniques don't fill manpower quotas, its recruits aren't smart enough to fight...
...argument that these anthropologists have the right (or academic freedom) to show such films, I say that one would be well within his right to show films on mutilation of Nazi or South African prison inmates to a class of medical students, but such an act is considered so monstrous that it would cause outrage. Because a practice is "widespread" (as is sadistic assault in this country) does not justify a filmic academic presentation to a college classroom...
...point of this chilling scenario is that every argument one now hears being advanced by the Soviets to justify the invasion of Afghanistan could also be applied to the Iranian crisis hypothesized above. The Soviets repeatedly-and, quite possibly, with some sincerity-deny having a grand design for a grab at the oil and warm waters of the gulf. But a socialist Iran, asking for help from Moscow tomorrow, is even easier to imagine today than was an Islamic Republic of Iran two years...
...decision last week, however, the majority chose to decide the case as a question of contractual obligations and rejected Snepp's First Amendment argument. The court said that the CIA had a need to impose "reasonable restrictions" on its employees, since confidentiality is "so essential to the effective operation of our foreign intelligence service...
...campaign from the Rose Garden for as long as he could get away with it, and left it to rival candidates to smoke him out. In Maine, Kennedy effectively ridiculed Carter for hiding in the White House. The press, in its new role, has taken up Kennedy's argument...