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Laird: The solution to the manpower problem is largely in the compensation area. Until you solve that you are not going to get the kind of people that this nation needs for a proper military deterrent. The military should compete for qualified, well-trained personnel. There is something wrong with a society like ours that is unwilling to pay adequate salaries for personnel in the military services...
Pirie: To go back to a partial conscript system leads to unending pain. It won't solve any of the problems that we are talking about. I don't think that it will solve the problem of [disproportionate racial] representation or the problem of numbers. I don't think there is any way that you can conscript for quality. So you would go through a wrenching political upheaval to yield a manpower system that would have as many or more problems than the present one has. This is a way of saying that I prefer the present...
Laird: I have no problem with drafting into the reserves; I have no problem with registration. But the only current solution available to you-and I hate to get back to this-is to use some money. Do you think that you could get the draft for the reserves through Congress...
Nunn: We will have a real problem, if we go to war, with the combat fatalities that inevitably are going to occur disproportionately in some groups. We are going to have a massive social problem be cause while the armed forces are viewed as a good job opportunity in peacetime, in wartime that becomes an opportunity for death on the battlefield. You are going to have an understandable cry from minorities as well as those who don't believe that people lower on the economic ladder should bear a disproportionate amount of wartime deaths and casualties. I share this...
...this year's show, Oberammergau reformers thought they could solve the problem by replacing the Daisenberger play with an older and less passionate Passion text written by Father Ferdinand Rosner of the nearby Ettal Monastery and first performed in 1750. Rosner's allegory-laden verses blame the whole tragedy on the Devil. The "Rosnerites" raised cash for a 1977 trial production. Critics loved the show, but the villagers missed their old familiar lines, scenes and songs from the Daisenberger version. In the 1978 election of the village council, the "Daisenbergers" won and promptly scheduled the usual Passion text...