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Inexhaustible Supply. While the courts were helping those who seek the right to serve, they also made things more difficult for those who prefer not to. All of the districts broadened the eligibility requirements to include people who were once exempt. Lawyers, doctors, nurses and a few other groups, who were usually excluded in the past, may now be excused on request but may choose to serve if they wish to. By raising the juror's fee from $10 to $20 a day (and $16 a night for those who travel long distances and must stay overnight), the courts...
Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford inaugurated the new stance by directing that the $5.5 billion Sentinel anti-ballistic-missile program be exempt from any of the budget cuts dictated by Congress this year. Though the ABM system is primarily designed to protect the U.S. against Chinese ICBMs, which are now said to be at least a year behind schedule, Clifford insisted that "current developments" force the U.S. to "press forward as planned with the Sentinel system." Opponents fear that this may even mean the eventual revival of the once-proposed (and rejected) larger ABM shield directed against Soviet missiles...
...district court upheld the Dixie Diner's chub status, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit called the name change a "cynical canard." Said the three-judge panel: "To hold that it was an exempt club would make a mockery of the club exemption, pervert the congressional purpose, and legitimize a mere stratagem. Courts need not be so naive...
...substantive act, the congress took the first step toward breaking N.S.A. into two corporate groups: one would retain N.S.A.'s tax-exempt status and carry out its present "educational" functions; the other would pay taxes and remain free to engage in open lobbying for legislation approved by N.S.A.'s annual congress. But the more significant message of the meeting was its renewed evidence that campus disorders will probably increase rather than abate in the coming school year. As outgoing President Schwartz sees it, the more moderate students are so discouraged that they may drop out of student movements...
...Draft Director Lewis B. Hershey, 74, crusty bugbear of millions of draft-age males, recalls an attempt to draft nurses during World War II that was stymied by Congress. Anthropologist Margaret Mead favors conscription of all youth for public service and sees no reason why girls should be exempt. The present draft, she complains, "sets girls and young women apart as if they did not exist...