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And would Clinton, hanging so tenuously to his legacy, risk what's left by working back channels with the Secret Service to bring in concupiscent conscripts while Hillary's out of town?

" Keegan said Milosevic's main mistake may have been to send barely trained teen-age conscripts to Kosovo, since their morale is especially vulnerable.

"If it is emerging that this is a war of morale--that of the conscripts' willingness to bear fear versus the NATO public's patience with apparent lack of results--President Clinton and the Prime Minister should now accept that they have paid insufficient attention to supporting the morale of their own electorates and have been insufficiently calculating in attacking that of their enemy.

Russia makes no serious effort to train them, because it doesn't have qualified noncommissioned officers, and its officers can't control the conscripts.

Canals, roads, and the Great Wall were built under the auspices of an extensive public works program staffed mostly by conscripts.

If conscripts are necessary for its army, it seizes them, and marches them, with bayonets in their rear, to death.

This really is why we raise no monument to the laborers in the Subway, even though they be our conscripts, and even though after a fashion our city is indeed based upon their patient hearts and enduring backs and shoulders.

I have had a letter from my brother, who announces his speedy arrival at Bald Hills with his wife.


This pleasure will be but a brief one, however, for he will leave us again to take part in this unhappy war into which we have been drawn, God knows how or why.


Not only where you are-at the heart of affairs and of the world-is the talk all of war, even here amid fieldwork and the calm of nature-which townsfolk consider characteristic of the country-rumors of war are heard and painfully felt.


My father talks of nothing but marches and countermarches, things of which I understand nothing; and the day before yesterday during my daily walk through the village I witnessed a heartrending scene.


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It was a convoy of conscripts enrolled from our people and starting to join the army.


You should have seen the state of the mothers, wives, and children of the men who were going and should have heard the sobs.


It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries-and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another.


Napoleon now hasted to Paris, and having assembled the Senate, he laid before them the full particulars of his disastrous campaign, upon which they immediately ordered out 300,000 conscripts.

How often have I sat there dreaming, lulled by the murmur of the insect world around, till the merry fife of a band of conscripts on their march, or the distant boom of a cannon from the forts, restored me to a consciousness that I was still at least in the world, although not of it.

The following day German troops (consisting of trained conscripts, reservists and partially trained students) moved southwards from Bruges and Ostend in the direction of the Yser river.

Rome also exhibited an impressive ability to draft army after army of conscripts after each crushing defeat by Hannibal, allowing them to recover from the defeats at Cannae and elsewhere and keep Hannibal cut off from aid.

San Juan retreated west to Talavera, where his mutinous conscripts shot him before dispersing.

"Likewise, many nations have used conscripts simply as indentured, low-cost work force, organized as ""work battalions"" for agriculture and building infrastructure instead of decent military service."

At worst, conscription can lead into outright chattel slavery and abuse of the conscripts.

"He is widely credited with being one of main authors of the important ""Manifesto of the 121"", named after the number of its signatories, who included Jean-Paul Sartre, Robert Antelme, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Marguerite Duras, René Char, Henri Lefebvre, Alain Resnais, Simone Signoret and others, which supported the rights of conscripts to refuse the draft in Algeria."

On November 24, 1944, news that conscripts might be sent overseas triggered a mutiny amongst the men stationed in Terrace.

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