Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Voronel was forced to resign from his position at the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow and was further harrassed by a draft call for active duty despite his age (41 years) and a previous exemption due to a chronic back problem. The upper age limit for military service...
...bill sponsored by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) would expose medical school graduates to a draft by lottery, to serve in the National Health Service Corps in doctor poor areas. The aim of his legislation is to contrive a degree of nationalization of American medical resources. It would also establish the principle that the skill of medical treatment carries with its practice a debt to the people who need such treatment. The bill should go further, however, and require such service of all emerging physicians...
...number of leave-takers may have declined around 1968 because of a fear of losing student deferments from the draft...
...Kissinger, as it turned out, who worked over the draft of the speech with Ford until 1:30 a.m. on the day it was delivered. Until then, the President had not even decided whether he would ask for any further military aid for South Viet Nam. Ford finally produced a speech that sounded as though it had been written by Kissinger?and probably was. For it is Kissinger who has been most pessimistic about the consequences for America's position in the world if South Viet Nam fell ignominiously. And Kissinger's reputation and achievement in the Paris accords...
...Chicago radio that he "wrote this book to find out what happened to the characters I introduced on page one." Suddenly Higgins is the American Simenon, starting from a set of tensions, writing with no end in sight--and writing at a deadly pace (ten days for the first draft of A City on a Hill, compared to the eleven days Simenon spends on slightly shorter books). His trick is that he writes almost nothing but dialogue. Long rambling, authentic-sounding conversations provide all the action in the entire book...