Volume 8, Number 6 · April 6, 1967
On the Draft
By Florence Howe, Paul Lauter, Richard Flacks
In Pursuit of Equity: Who Serves When Not All Serve? Service, Burke Marshall, Chairman
Report of the President's National Advisory Commission on Selective
U.S. Government Printing Office, 219 pp., $1.50
The Wrong Man in Uniform
by Bruce K. Chapman
Trident, 143 pp., $3.95
At no time in its history has the draft been opposed, evaded, defied, studied, and pronounced upon with such energy and persistence as it is today. We now have the report of a Presidential commission proposing extensive reforms, another report by a Congressional commission endorsing most of the present system, and a book presenting the case for replacing the draft altogether by a voluntary army. Yet none of these proposals really deals with the reason why the draft is now a hot political issue: the war in Vietnam.
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