Start On Draft Reform Is Sensible Approach
President Nixon proposes fundamental draft reform with aims to make the system equitable and reasonable. He traces ideas to 1967 National Advisory Commission on Selective Service and argues for drafting the youngest first, shortening vulnerability, randomizing selection, and reviewing deferments. He notes drawbacks like college deferments and local board autonomy but calls for prompt congressional action.
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Nixon
National Advisory Commission On Selective Service
Congress
What's The Pro-Black Thing In Law And Society
Buckley surveys three incidents on race and law in the United States. A Chicago judge counsels a Negro offender away from cashing in on white man crime stereotypes. At Cornell white students are arrested amid campus unrest and lawyers argue prosecution should not depend on race. HEW allows white exclusion from Antioch programs due to black background, provoking debate over who is protected or targeted.
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Chicago
United States District Court
Eli
Jah Muhammad
Cornell
Honkies
Perkins
University of Anarchy
Old Cayuga
Antioch
Hew
Letter writers debate half per cent income tax rise
The Journal published seven letters to the editor arguing the proposed half per cent income tax increase. Readers offered strong support and opposition in a brief exchange, noting fiscal and principled concerns. A separate note highlights a Mother’s Day reflection from Seaman Eddie Ray Peck to his mother.
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Eddie Ray Peck
Darley Peck
Mohawk Street
Nixon presses for international supervision to end Vietnam war
President Nixon argues the United States seeks a permanent peace in Vietnam with an international supervising body to verify withdrawals and oversee ceasefires and elections in South Vietnam. He warns against one sided withdrawal and warns that abandoning South Vietnam risks a massacre and wider conflict. World reaction from Hanoi Moscow and Peking is negative, with key decision pending in Paris talks.
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Nixon
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Asia
Vietnam
South Vietnam
International Commission
South
Korea
Hanoi
Soviet Union
Moscow
Peking
Paris
Middletown Ohio Newspaper Subscription Rates
The Journal Published by the News Journal lists subscription rates and mailing details. Rates include 10 cents per weekday copy and 20 cents for Sunday, with weekly and yearly mail options for in city and outside regions.
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Edvence
Surrender talk and Hue massacre shape Nixon speech
Joseph Alsop argues Nixon's Vietnam address reveals grave awareness of consequences of surrender. The Hue massacre is highlighted to emphasize risks of a Communist takeover, with calls for North Vietnamese withdrawal from Cambodia and Laos and firm insistence on South Vietnam's self determination. He contrasts Hanoi's strategic pressures with Saigon's plight.
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Cambodia
Laos
South Vietnam
Sen. J. William Fulbright
Hanoi
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