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...years since the abolition of the draft in the early 1970s, the armed forces have been manned by poor people and racial minorities--there is no quarreling with that fact. In a society where unemployment is permitted--indeed encouraged--to flourish, the service has become an employer of last resort for those denied jobs elsewhere in our inhumane economy. In a sense, then, there is already a draft in our nation, a draft that passes over those with enough money, education or connections to do something else...
...used to punish anyone the government doesn't like." Added a white government official who is planning to leave the country: "The government keeps accusing whites of being responsible for acts of sabotage, but has so far produced not a scrap of public evidence. They'll probably resort to taking away people's property just to prove they are on top of things...
...economic reprisals for political purposes has a long and undistinguished history, dating at least as far back as England's sporadic naval blockades of France during the Napoleonic era. In this century trade sanctions have become the warfare of first resort. The U.S. and such international bodies as the League of Nations and the United Nations have employed embargoes to punish Mussolini's Italy, Franco's Spain and many other countries. In almost every case these tac tics failed dismally because the target nations found new trading partners or willing smugglers to get around the restrictions. Concludes...
This left Harvard with only three players on the ice to Dartmouth's four, and the Crimson was forced to resort to desperate measures, taking out goalie Tate and sending in another attacker...
...world full of dangers-real, imagined or exaggerated-the Soviet leadership dangers-real, imagined or exaggerated-the Soviet leadership would prefer to protect its gains with minimum risk of war by means of diplomacy, intimidation, propaganda, covert action, or the use of proxies. If necessary, though, it will resort to direct military intervention to ensure the survival of the Soviet system, including in those countries where the system has been imposed by outright conquest-such as Hungary, Czechoslovakia and, possibly next, Poland. On Christmas Day two years ago, the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan to prop up a faltering Marxist regime...