OPPOSITION TO DRAFT
Upper class ‘•insulated’ (N.Z. Press Assn. —Copyright) WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. Senator Edward Kennedy has urged the United States Congress to impose a 150,000 man draft ceiling and to reform the selective service system, to insure that “poot people don’t fight a rich man’s war.”
“I would support a volunteer Army in peace-time,” Senator Kennedy said. “But when American men are dying in Vietnam, Cambodia and perhaps now in Laos, I believe a volunteer Army is both unwise and inequitable." Senator Kennedy criticised an Administration proposal to give a $3OOO bonus to men who enlisted in combat units.
“It is grossly inequitable to permit the risks of battle to fall only on those lessaffluent Americans who are induced to join the Army by the attraction of higher military pay,” he said.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32525, 8 February 1971, Page 5
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