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Including women? That is the toughest question of all for most people. Rosalynn Carter, along with Defense Secretary Harold Brown and Army Secretary Clifford Alexander, believes that young women should be required to register -and be drafted, if it comes to that...
...object would not be to safeguard Pakistan against an all-out Soviet attack. As Defense Secretary Harold Brown put it last week, that is "not something the Pakistanis themselves would be able to cope with no matter how much equipment they have...
...major debate within Carter's inner circle was over whether he should call for revival of draft registration, which ended in 1976 when Congress put the Selective Service System in hibernation (see box). Carter was opposed to restoring the draft itself, but Vance and Secretary of Defense Harold Brown argued that by resuming Selective Service registration, Carter would underscore his intention to stand firm against further Soviet expansionism. Carter was still not persuaded, and draft registration was not part of the speech that he took with him to Camp David on the weekend before he was to deliver his address...
...times change. When he was starting up The New Yorker in 1925, Editor Harold Ross declared in his prospectus that his magazine would be much too sophisticated for "the old lady in Dubuque." If that instantly famous putdown ever had any accuracy, it surely does not now. Dubuque (pop. 65,000) has a lady mayor. And at 44, she is neither old nor unworldly-even though her honor, Carolyn Farrell, is a nun of the Sisters of Charity. Dean of continuing education at Dubuque's Clarke College, Farrell (she prefers not to be called "sister...
...were relying mostly on light machine guns captured from Soviet caches, and automatic rifles or other light arms provided by their Chinese backers. Some carried old Enfield rifles from border villages that have long specialized in hand-crafted weapons. Last week, as they had pledged to U.S. Defense Secretary Harold Brown during his recent visit to Peking, the Chinese stepped up deliveries of arms supplies across the Karakoram Pass into Pakistan; even so, the rebels received nothing heavier than mortars or light artillery pieces...