Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Irish funeral procession was so serious that a militia cavalry regiment of 800 horsemen was required to restore order. As a result of these disturbances, a professional police force was created, modeled after the new London police. In 1863 this force, aided by the militia, put down the Boston Draft Riot; during its course, the previously unarmed police had to acquire weapons and, in its aftermath, decided, with legislative approval, to arm themselves on a regular basis...
Jiggetts was drafted in the sixth round of the draft by the Bears and was the only Harvard player drafted by the pros this year...
With the Catholic left in retreat, at least one well-known Catholic-American maintains his activist stance. Jesuit Father Daniel J. Berrigan first captured the national spotlight eight years ago next month, when he raided the Selective Service office in Catonsville, Ohio, setting fire to a mass of draft records while solemnly reciting the Lord's Prayer. For Dan Berrigan today, the issues are different, but the basis for activism remains the same. In a speech at Harvard last month, Berrigan commented, "I am trying to take the seventies as I did the sixties, from the point of view...
...Music Hall. And I won't even mention America at the Boston Garden at 8 pm on Sunday. It's too painful. Don't go. If you can't see Bob Marley on Sunday, just listen to Beatles records, or study for an hourly or burn your draft card or your roommate or something...
...obey the authority of man and God, and they were not self-conscious about admitting they belonged to the Silent Majority. Michael, the eldest, had been an outstanding 4-H Club member and even tried to persuade his parents to vote for Barry Goldwater in 1964. When his draft notice came, he was a graduate biochemistry student who planned to take over the family farm...