Word: draft
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...nucleus of protest against the Vietnam War. "Students are the natural constituency of protest because they have the time and energy," says Gerald Marwell, professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin -- Madison. But so far he hasn't seen much concern: "For one thing, there is no draft, so people are not so personally at risk...
Does that seem to contradict the republics' right to "free choice of forms of . . . economic management"? Well, these central union powers are to be exercised "together with the republics" -- a phrase that occurs over and over in the draft, and seems less a clarification than an invitation to conflict...
...creation of the all-volunteer army in 1973 made the present imbalance inevitable. The Vietnam-era draft was full of inequities that allowed middle- class youths to duck into college and professional deferments. But once conscription ended, the proportion of soldiers from more educated and affluent backgrounds dwindled even further. Though Congress approved a military pay hike of more than 60% in 1972, most people with college degrees could find better jobs in civilian life. By the late 1970s, as military pay scales began , to lag further behind those in the outside world, even high school graduates were...
Webb is one of a small but growing number of critics who say the only way to ensure fairness is to reinstate the draft, preferably without exemptions for college students. "Unless you have universal national service or universal military service, you will always have this problem," says Lawrence Korb, a former Assistant Secretary of Defense for manpower in the Reagan Administration. But Congress and the President are in no mood to deal with the political uproar that would surely follow any move in that direction. The Defense Department said last week it has no contingency plans to revive the draft...
...said he plans to travel far away from the land of the Puritans and Pilgrims for the holiday: he's going to Phoenix to visit his son. Mansfield said he will attend the New England Patriots vs. the Phoenix Cardinals game, which may decide next year's first round draft choice. He said he's grateful for "a healthy country and a world that's much more democratic...