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WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 19--The Selective Service could institute a random selection system before the June 30 expiration date for graduate student deferments, Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey said in an interview today...
Speaking for the American Council on Education, I would urge that the Administration and the Congress consider a system of random selection at the earliest possible moment. With a carefully devised system our nation can confront more realistically its future needs for trained manpower while also maintaining fairness and equity for all who may be subject to call...
...Service System needs. But combined with the present policy of drafting the oldest men classified 1-A first, yesterday's directive is a bit of careless expediency--clearly unfair to the students who would have filled the nation's graduate schools next year. General Hershey's statement that a random age mix could not be feasibly implemented is a commentary on the disarray of Selective Service administration, which needs reorganization as badly as its system of deferments...
There is a faint hope that Johnson's egregious mishandling of the draft dilemma may stir Congress to implement Senator Edward M. Kennedy's Selective Service reform bill--which would substitute random selection for the oldest-first policy. If Congress, like the President, avoids reevaluating the bizarre draft system, it will continue to exacerbate American frustration with an irrational war policy...
DEATH IN LIFE: SURVIVORS OF HIROSHIMA by Robert Jay Lifton. 594 pages. Random House...