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An expeditionary force of American Marines arrived in the Middle East on Saturday, as the Houthis, the Iran-allied militant group in Yemen, entered the widening Iran conflict by launching an unsuccessful missile attack on Israel.

Even though President Trump has said there are “very strong talks” underway with Iran on a diplomatic solution, a series of strikes on Friday and Saturday gave no indication the fighting was ebbing.

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Donald Trump avoided the military draft 5 times, but it wasn't uncommon for young men from influential families to do so during the Vietnam War

By Mariana Alfaro

A young Donald Trump. Classmates.com
Dec 26, 2018, 1:11 PM ET

A young Donald Trump was seemingly in good health when he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968, as the United States was mired in one of the bloodiest years of the Vietnam War.


The 22-year-old — who was 6 feet 2 inches tall and an athlete — had already avoided the military draft four times in order to complete his college education.

But that spring, as he was set to graduate, he received a diagnosis that landed him a fifth draft deferment that would once again keep him out of Vietnam: bone spurs.


President Trump sat out the war and instead went on to join his father in business. The New York Times reported that the president, as a young man, said his "heel spurs," which are protrusions caused by calcium buildup on the heel bone, made him unfit for service.

Heel spurs can be cured by stretching, orthotics, or surgery. The president said he never got surgery for the condition.

“Over a period of time, it healed up,” he said, according to the Times.

The diagnosis came two years after Trump had been declared available for service and passed a physical exam.

On Wednesday, The Times reported that a Queens podiatrist who rented office space from Fred Trump, the president's father, might have given the president his diagnosis as a courtesy to his father.

Trump, however, wasn't the only young man who managed to avoid being sent to Vietnam because he belonged to an influential family who could afford him a college education — or a favorable medical diagnosis.

Draft deferment wasn't uncommon during the Vietnam era — but it frequently benefited a specific group of young men, particularly those who had the means to afford a college education or enough family influence to obtain a deferment.

Read more: Democratic senator calls Trump 'Cadet Bone Spurs' during fiery speech on the shutdown's impact on the military

David Cortright, a scholar and peace activist, found that more than half of the 27 million American men eligible to be drafted during the Vietnam era were deferred, exempted, or disqualified.

Young men could typically avoid the draft by being in college, getting married, having children, or being diagnosed with a medical condition that made them unable to serve.

According to a report by the American Economic Review, the college-enrollment rate among young American men rose — and then fell — abruptly between 1965 and 1975. According to the report, many have said these patterns resulted from draft deferments.

This led to the majority of those who served in Vietnam to come from low-income families, a point made in 2017 by the late Arizona Sen. John McCain, a Vietnam prisoner of war.

"One aspect of the conflict, by the way, that I will never ever countenance is that we drafted the lowest income level of America," McCain said in an interview. "And the highest income level found a doctor that would say that they had a bone spur. That is wrong. That is wrong. If we’re going to ask every American to serve, every American should serve."

Elliot Ackerman, an Iraq and Afghanistan veteran, wrote in a Time magazine article that "student deferments and various loopholes most often exclusively leveraged by the well-off, or influential, the brunt of that conflict fell to America's poorest, most marginalized citizens, creating a toxic social rift."

Notable politicians, such as Joe Biden and Dick Cheney, also received multiple draft deferments. Biden received draft deferments because of his college education. Once he was out of college, he received a deferment for an asthma condition.

Like Trump, Cheney received five draft deferments — four for college and one for being a father. According to The Washington Post, Cheney was classified as a 1-A by the Selective Service in 1965. This made him "available immediately for military service." Cheney got married soon after the classification.

Months later, Lyndon B. Johnson said draft calls would be doubled, meaning married men without children, previously exempted from the draft, could now be drafted, but married men with children were exempt. Soon after, Cheney was classified 3-A by the Selective Service because his wife was now pregnant with their first child.

Other young men didn't avoid the draft but had strings pulled to be assigned to noncombat zones, such as Germany and Korea, or other areas of the military.

Former President George W. Bush joined the Air National Guard, in Texas, which kept him stateside during the Vietnam War. Critics have long contended that Bush received his cushy role in the guard because commanding officers sought to curry the favor of Bush's father, the late President George H.W. Bush, who was an influential Texas congressman at the time.

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GENEVA (AP) — Scientists in Geneva took some antiprotons out for a spin — a very delicate one — in a truck, in a never-tried-before test drive that has been deemed a success.

If this so-called antimatter had come into contact with actual matter, even for a fraction of an instant, it would have been annihilated in a quick flash of energy. So experts at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, had to be extra careful when they took 92 antiprotons on the road for a short ride on Tuesday.

The antiprotons were suspended in a vacuum inside a specially designed box and held in place by supercooled magnets.

In methodical exercise over about three hours, the nearly 1,000-kilogram (2,200-pound) cryogenic box was craned up slowly and moved through a cavernous lab the onto the truck.

The drive on CERN’s campus itself lasted only about a half-hour to test how — if at all — the infinitesimal particles could be transported by road without seeping out.

The antiprotons were then placed back in their usual lab area, and the operation was concluded with applause, claims of success, and a bottle of Champagne.

“Transporting antimatter is a pioneering and ambitious project,” said Gautier Hamel de Monchenault, CERN’s director for research and computing. “We are at the beginning of an exciting scientific journey that will allow us to further deepen our understanding of antimatter.”

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When Ruth Gonzalez decided to start taking the weight-loss medicine Zepbound last year, she first had to find a way to afford its roughly $350 (£260) monthly cost.

Gonzalez switched her mobile phone plan, dropped all but one of her streaming subscriptions, limited her grocery spending and cut out Starbucks.

The 56-year-old, who is self-employed and pays out of her own pocket because her health insurance does not cover weight-loss drugs, says the financial sacrifices have been worth it.

The spike in her blood pressure, which had scared her into seeking a prescription, was back to normal within six weeks. She has also lost more than 40lb (18kg), dropping her weight to 175lb (79kg), which she is hoping will help her with subsequent diagnoses of sleep apnoea and incipient fatty liver disease.

Perhaps more unexpectedly, some of her financial strains have also started to ease.

In December, Zepbound-maker Eli Lilly lowered the price of its vials by $50-$100 (£37.50-£75), allowing her to start taking a more powerful, and expensive, dose. Now she is eyeing new options, including an even lower-cost weight-loss pill the company is expected to launch in the coming months.

"For someone on a fixed budget, it is absolutely helpful," she says.