Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Amnesty, once among the most volatile of national issues, has quietly fizzled. This week the 18-member presidential clemency board will close shop after a year in operation, and its success has been slight. Only 21,000 of the nation's 108,000 convicted Viet Nam-era draft evaders and deserters have applied to the panel. It approved 16,500 of the applications and passed them on to the White House, where the young men were to be granted either full amnesty or conditional amnesty based upon their performance in a year in an alternate-service job such...
...Pentagon and the Justice Department administer separate amnesty programs, and their luck has been no better. Of the 10,000 military deserters the Pentagon is aware of, 84 have completed the alternate-service work. The Justice Department deals with the radicals who evaded the draft and went to Canada, Sweden and Third World countries. Of 4,400 men in this category, only 722 have agreed to alternative service in exchange for the dropping of charges of violating the Selective Service laws. There are many egregious offenders who will not be permitted to come back without serving prison sentences. Others will...
...real world. Idaho Democrat Frank Church, chairman of the special Senate committee investigating the CIA and other intelligence agencies, revealed that the U.S.'s James Bonds have their own secret supply of quick and terrible poisons-in direct violation of a presidential order. In keeping with the draft convention of the U.N. Disarmament Conference, Richard Nixon five years ago ordered the destruction of all stocks of toxin weapons. But the CIA held on to 10.9 grams of saxitoxin, a close chemical cousin of the fearsome fugu, along with eight milligrams of a toxin made from cobra venom. That minuscule...
...students who may potentially cause roommate problems and make sure that these students are matched first for the best possible combinations. Similarly, a well-adjusted person who has lived for a year with the AFS in a damp dungeon in Tierra Del Fuego, may be one of the final draft picks. "That doesn't mean he will be put in a damp basement at Harvard, however," Young assures...
...form, matching two people who have made obscure references to Sherlock Holmes. But the dean's office is the first to admit that the process isn't perfect. And if you feel yo've been the victim of a bum trade, don't hesitate to get back into the draft pool and find another, more compatible roommate...