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...Rules. The vast majority of the post-July draftees will thus be college graduates (v. 4% last year) and a year or two older than men taken today. There is every likelihood that draft demonstrations will increase in size and stridency, when many of those most opposed to the war face imminent induction. There is also some likelihood that Army morale will suffer, as thousands of men who question the war are sent to fight...
...charged only with checking those coming from Canada to the United States stopped two suspicious-looking young men going into Quebec and ran thorough checks on their draft statuses. The Montreal Council to Aid War Resisters screamed to Ottawa, Ottawa screamed to the United States, and there seems little likelihood of a repetition of the incidents...
...Hué, sitting on the lush banks of the Perfume River, that the Communists, recognizing both its symbolic importance and the greater likelihood of some support from the population, made a maximum effort. There, for the time being, they enjoyed their most signal success. The seat of South Viet Nam's militant Buddhists and the home of many disaffected university students, Hué has long been South Viet Nam's capital of discontent. Into Hué last week Giap sent elements of five of his North Vietnamese regulars, supported by Viet Cong local soldiers?an estimated 2,000 men in all. They seized...
...passed during the last session: fair juries, fair housing, enforcement powers for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and stronger federal protection for those exercising civil rights. As important as anything in the two messages was the tone of expanded economic opportunity and sharper equal-rights legislation, which in all likelihood will be two of the President's main campaign themes...
Toughness & Arrogance. The plan to kill Park was Premier Kim's own idea, as in all likelihood was the order to seize the Pueblo. A Stalinist who has kept North Korea in a state of permanent purge, Kim has acted In recent years to assert North Korea's independence, slipping out of China's orbit and edging closer to Russia. To show that independence, North Korea became the first Communist country to offer to send troops to North Viet Nam to aid Ho Chi Minh; Ho declined, except for accepting some 50 North Korean pilot instructors...