Word: draft
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...goal, according to the draft, is to make Cambridge a city where everyone "enjoys the highest standard of living that human knowledge and technology can provide." GRO meets weekly in private homes, but Graham says the group will soon have a central office. "GRO is very unstructured at this point and there is still a lot of argument within the group," Graham said last month...
Since World War II, ROTC has shifted towards recruiting highly-skilled career soldiers and professional specialists to meet the needs of a smaller, more technically sophisticated military. During the sixties, only those ROTC students who enlisted to forestall the draft were likely to maintain an independent "civilian consciousness." This reservoir of prospective civilian-oriented ROTC cadets no longer exists...
...both writers worked on the speech, with Nixon editing their copy by scribbling extensive notes in the margins and sometimes dictating new paragraphs to Haig. The speech was not finished until Aug. 14, the day before its delivery, when Nixon applied the finishing touches to the eleventh-and final-draft. The speech was so difficult to prepare, explained one of the men who worked on it, "because in many respects it was a needle-threading operation. He had to touch on the important aspects of Watergate without getting bogged down in the nits of it. He made a very keen...
...harass anti-Administration organizations, TIME began checking on the activities of a secret IRS Special Services Group. It disclosed that the special group, set up in 1969 to examine the taxes paid by "extremists," had amassed files on some 3,000 organizations and 8,000 individuals, including prison rioters, draft-card burners and rock-concert fans. Three days after the disclosure, the special group was disbanded. "The IRS will continue to pay close attention to tax rebels," declared Internal Revenue Commissioner Donald C. Alexander, who said the IRS had been studying the matter for two months. "But political or social...
...appear ready to try yet another coalition government, as they have done unsuccessfully twice before in the past 19 years. Diplomats in Vientiane report that the Pathet Lao, whose army controls 80% of Laotian territory and about one-third of its population, won most of the concessions in the draft agreement. Although Souvanna will head the new government as Premier, his half brother will become the undisputed No. 2 man as First Deputy Premier. Both the Pathet Lao and Souvanna's representatives will get five seats on the new twelve-man Cabinet, with two going to nonaligned public figures...