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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1968
Page
9
U S educators urge a broader draft pool to include noncollege students graduates and grad students in a quota system. The plan would call all eligible 19 to 26 year olds by birth month and aim to ease graduate school losses and future shortages in STEM and humanities fields.
Educators including Yale’s Kingman Brewster and University of Kentucky President John W. Oswald back a broadened draft pool and random selection to replace current deferment bias. President Johnson opposed new action, while lawmakers consider executive orders. Nearly two million full time hospital workers are noted.
In Saigon AP reports that young GIs decorate helmets and flak vests with slogans and drawings. A Marine doctor notes the phrases express generation language and may help identify soldiers, while psychiatrists see graffiti as socially acceptable in Vietnam, not a deeper sign of danger.
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