Word: draft
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...convention's last day, there were some tears in the Garden during the poignant, if a bit bizarre vice-presidential nomination of Fritz Efaw, 29, who had avoided the Viet Nam draft by living in exile in London. Seconded by Ron Kovic, a paraplegic casualty of the war ("I am the living dead"), Efaw made a plea for a broad amnesty for all Viet Nam service evaders before withdrawing his name...
Even the use of the word "democracy" in the draft statement was cause for contention. As one high-level Italian Communist explained to TIME Correspondent Herman Nickel: "How could [Italian Party Chief] Enrico Berlinguer sign a statement on democracy that [Czechoslovak President] Gustav Husak could also sign?" The red-leather-bound final declaration, placed before each delegate at the opening of the two-day conference, affirmed the "complete independence" of each party "in accordance with the socio-economic conditions and specific national features prevailing in the country concerned...
...second section asked that the Colonies immediately "take the most effectual measures for forming foreign alliances". The third section urged that "a plan for confederation be prepared and transmitted to the respective colonies for their consideration and approbation." That plan, TIME has learned, has just been finished, and a draft will be submitted to Congress late this week...
Among the chief points in Dickinson's draft...
...draft promises that "the United States assembled shall never impose or levy any taxes or duties, except in managing the post office." When "the Assembly" needs to raise substantial sums of money for waging war or other matters of "general welfare," the states shall provide it "in proportion to the number of inhabitants of every age, sex, and quality, except Indians not paying taxes...