Word: draft
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Construction of a $27 million memorial complex, including a library, a museum and facilities for several Harvard departments, has been in the works since 1964. In early September the federal General Services Administration will release the draft environmental impact statement on the project, planned for the site of the subway yards across from Eliot House. The public hearings that will follow hold the promise of Graham mobilizing her troops, business and labor counter-attacking, and Harvard once again remaining silent publicly while privately hoping the Kennedys can clear the way for construction of the University's new buildings...
...there are times when "forgiveness is deemed more expedient for the public welfare than prosecution and punishment." To make such a move palatable to those who believe that justice should be evenhanded, President Ford should couple amnesty for Mr. Nixon with amnesty for the thousands of Viet Nam-era draft evaders still at large. Let us err on the side of mercy. Unless this quarrel between the past and the present is quelled, we shall lose the future...
...regardless of the position or status" of an alleged wrongdoer. That less-than-bold proposition was the A.B.A.'s way of opposing special legal treatment for Richard Nixon. In a more forthright action, the delegates voted 117-110 to support "earned" immunity from prosecution for Viet Nam draft resisters (it could be earned by service in the armed forces or in other public-service employment). Talk about legal ethics pervaded the convention. But little was done. On the other major leadership concern-prepaid group legal services-there was also scant progress. (If and when the A.B.A. sets advisory guidelines...
Until recently, the military draft also made the service academies an attractive alternative. But the new freshmen, unpressured by the draft, are in the words of Admiral Mack, "all here because they wanted to come here from the start...
...ditch television appeal, thought about it, then rejected his own idea. As so often in the Watergate saga, his perception was poor, almost disconnected from reality: he was not at all certain that the effect of the newest tape disclosure would be that fatal. He ordered his aides to draft a statement to accompany the release of the transcripts. He would take his chances with the result. Price moved into an unoccupied cabin and began drafting the President's explanation. St. Clair insisted on a paragraph making it clear that he had been unaware of this damaging evidence. With...