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WASHINGTON —(UPI)— Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara's call to the youth of America to give two years of their lives to the service of their country—in works of war or peace—seemed certain today to spark a genuine national debate.
McNamara's suggestion, almost revolutionary in its scope and magnitude, brought a wide range of response from enthusiastic approval to flat rejection.
IT APPEARED the Pentagon chief was going to have to come up with a more detailed explanation of just what he had in mind as a replacement for the nation's present military draft system.
In his speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors at Montreal Wednesday, McNamara proposed that the United States adopt a form of universal service that would permit young men—and women to serve in military or peaceful projects, at home or abroad, for two years.
HE ARGUED that international security in the thermonuclear age depends not on the multiplication of weapons, but on economic, social and political progress in the backward nations of the world.
Club patrons held in nude for 8 hours
"our own present young generation in the United States" would be a step toward development of a worldwide "community of effort" he suggested. It would overcome the present "inequity" of the military draft system, which calls up only a minority of eligible young men.
QUESTIONED ABOUT it later, McNamara said it would include young women "but it will only be under a voluntary basis at first." He hopes legislation will "ultimately be enacted" so that the choice to be put to young men—the military or the Peace Corps—would be voluntary, "at least initially."
LOS ANGELES—(UPI)—Four bandits barged into a private social club Wednesday, forced about 75 patrons to strip and held them in the nude for eight hours before escaping with $10,000 in cash and jewelry.
The holdup men, armed with guns and a $ 2 \frac{1}{2} $ -foot length of pipe, struck male members of the club on the head as they entered.
Twelve women among the guests at the predominantly Negro club were forced to disrobe, like the men, and all were herded into a back room and made to lie on the floor. A white woman was raped by one of the Negro gunmen.
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Police said a man with a shotgun stood over the men and women lying naked on the floor. Anyone who attempted to move, look around or get up was kicked.
Big US troop buildup apparent in Viet Nam
WASHINGTON — (UPI) The United States is determined not to lose hard won military gains in the political turmoil of South Viet Nam. A major U.S. troop buildup appears to be under way.
The buildup, reported Wednesday by Rep. Melvin R. Laird, R-Wis., seems to signal a continuation of military efforts between new and Viet Nam elections scheduled for September.
LAIRD, A MEMBER of the House Defense Appropriations Committee, did not reveal the exact size of the buildup. He said the figures were classified. He did say the buildup was firm and it was large.
Signs of intensification of the U.S. effort also have come from
Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara.
In a report recently to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he said this country would expand efforts to meet new thrusts by Hanoi.
IT ALSO APPEARED to be designed to avoid recurrence of the near collapse of South Viet Nam which accompanied the fall of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963.
The American troops will apparently be called in to fill any vacuum that develops, as they did when Diem was deposed.
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