Nixon eyes all volunteer army plan in 1971 push
President Nixon aims to end the draft by mid 1972 with an all volunteer force, seeking stronger Congress support and a favorable military pay scale. Officials project 1971 callups could dip to about 100000, enabling a shift to volunteers if funds exist. A spring lottery for 19-year-olds and new 1-H draft classification are under consideration to delay inductions and reassure registrants.
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Coe Cary
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U.S
Congress
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Army
Selective Service
Chile Admires Left Turn as Guevara Statue Debuts in Santiago
In Santiago a Che Guevara statue is unveiled in a public park days after Allende becomes Chile’s Marxist president. The piece appears amid broader moves toward ties with Cuba and other communist states, while U.S. policy faces scrutiny in Latin America. Debray’s Chilean role and releases of political prisoners feature in a broader regional pattern. Within this climate, U.S. options appear constrained by low Latin American trust and shifts in hemispheric alignments.
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Che Guevara
Cuba
Santiago
Chile
Salvador Allende Gossens
American
Allende
North Korea
Red China
Brazil
Giovanni Warico Bucher
Regis Debray
Debray
Mexico
Algeria
Eduardo Frei
Bolivia
United States
Latin America
Senate Foreign Relations seats eyed by hopefuls
Washington reports that a half dozen senators seek the four vacant seats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee with two 1972 presidential hopefuls among them. The panel wields influence through treaty work, hearings on overseas commitments, and Southeast Asia policy, while facing erosion of its foreign aid and budget control.
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Senate Foreign Relations
John Hall Washington
UPI
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Congress
United States
Mexico
Trinidad and Tobago
J. William Fulbright
DeArk
Senate
Executive Branch
Foreign Relations Committee
Fulbright
Southeast Asia
Edmund
Muskie
O-Maine
George 5
McGovern
T.S.D
Nixon
U. S
Asia
91St Congress
Cambodia
Armed Services and Appropriations
Thousand Islands
Soviet limits on emigration and border access keep Jews jailed
Editorial notes that Soviet Russia blocks most citizens from leaving and controls travel with internal passports. Khrushchev’s call for open borders seems fanciful as three million Jews exist in the country and only about a thousand emigrated to Israel in 1970. The piece illustrates the tight visa regime, citing Maya Plisetskaya’s exit case to show the high level sensitivity around visas.
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William B. Dickinson, Jr
Soviet Russia
Nikita
Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Israel
Russia
Maya Plisetskaya
Hier
Cave lady keeps US alert against space attack
Susan Breeden 22, an orbital analyst at NORAD in Cheyenne Mountain, monitors thousands of space objects from a cavern deep in the mountain. A nightly routine includes reviewing satellite observations from a digital computer system as an alerting network spans the US and Canada. Her role doubles as a women's rights advocate, and she pursues a career in space despite traditional fears, biking to work and enduring a 25-ton blast door into her granite fortress desk.
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Frank Macomber
Copley
Cheyenne Mountain
Colo
Susan Breeden
Colorado Springs
North America
Susan
North American Air Defense Command
NORAD
Chyenne Mountain
Contin
Air Force
Canada
Alaska
Pare
Samen
Nestie
Breeden
Mountain Fortress
Suan
IHD
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