DEFENSE: Decision by Lottery

The National Security Training Commission last summer was told by President Eisenhower to bring order out of confusion in the nation's military draft and reserve system. Headed by Julius Ochs Adler, vice president of the New York Times and an Army Reserve major general, the commission went to work, last week submitted its report. Result: confusion compounded.

The commission had no trouble finding inequities of the present system, e.g., more than 600,000 U.S. veterans of World War II were called back to duty and thrown into the Korean war, while about 2,500,000...

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