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...enlisted men, can become politically dangerous and that officers for a volunteer army can be recruited in the same democratic way employed now -- by an elaborate system of geographic distribution controlled by admissions officers at West Point, and by the ROTC program. "People are forever saying that a conscript army full of unwilling soldiers is a safeguard against a military take-over," Friedman says. "They forget that the army behind Napoleon was a conscript army. In fact the word conscript was coined during the French Revolution...
While military pressure on the Viet Cong grows, so does the Communist campaign of terror against the Vietnamese people. The Viet Cong conscript by force, levy taxes on the populace and generally harass whichever villages they cannot control. They have killed no fewer than 15,000 local village chiefs since 1957, and regularly heave grenades into sidewalk cafes, detonate plastic bombs in hotels and use other tech niques that accounted for the loss of more than 2,000 lives last year. The terror is meant to slam home the message that nobody is safe anywhere, and that an enemy...
...that is subject to retailoring to fit in any guest star that Feldman can conscript. The picture already has more cameos than Cartier's-Peter O'Toole popped in as a bagpiper (his fee: a case of champagne), Race Driver Stirling Moss plays a chauffeur, William Holden is chief of the CIA, Charles Boyer is head of the French Sûréte, and Huston will be Bond's boss...
...students, an experiment no less dehumanizing for being silly. Woyzeck's firmest hold on life is a woman (Elisabeth Orth) who has borne his child out of wedlock. More sensualist than wanton, she betrays him with a dashing drum major, and the crazed Woyzeck, like a conscript Othello, stabs his flyblown wench to death...
Grazed Lip. Typically, the Shah glanced warily from side to side, and it was well that he did. His gaze met that of a young conscript named Reza Bakhshabadi, who held his submachine gun at a level lower than usual. The Shah, trained in arms, was well aware of the technique of firing an automatic weapon: start shooting low and then raise your aim-if you take dead aim the kick of recoil makes shots go too high for accuracy...