Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Interested in this use of the weapon, the incoming Nixon Administration favored a toughened version of immunity "to strike at the leadership of organized crime." Its 1970 Organized Crime Control Act, which John Dean helped draft, made the practice uniformly applicable in the investigation of any federal crime. The law also extended a full-fledged, formal power to grant immunity to congressional committees for the first time. Finally, and most controversially, the act dropped from federal law the traditional "transactional" immunity, which gave complete protection from any prosecution, and substituted "use" immunity, which v meant only that a witness could...
...earlier days of his imprisonment for destroying draft records, the Rev. Philip Berrigan had strong views on the value of the Roman Catholic discipline of priestly celibacy. Married resisters, he noted, were not fully free to fight: they had to temper zeal with prudence and think of their families as well as their mission. Few of his fellow revolutionaries agreed with him more than Sister Elizabeth McAlister, an intense and idealistic admirer, who was convicted at Harrisburg last year, along with Berrigan, of smuggling letters into and out of a federal prison...
...both Phil Berrigan and her sister nuns used to kid the mildly miniskirted Liz about having "the world's most wonderful legs." These days Liz's legs are often hidden behind a lectern: she is a tireless speaker on, among other topics, the question of amnesty for draft resisters...
...Though they all admitted illegally destroying draft records, 17 of the anti war Camden 28 were found innocent...
...continues to be slightly more than double that for whites (4.5%). In April some 15.4% of teen-age job seekers were without work, scarcely fewer than a year ago. An unusually high percentage of teen-agers are looking for employment now, partly because they no longer face the draft. People who fall into more than one of the hard-to-hire categories face particularly tough going. In the Watts section of Los Angeles, reports Herbert Hill, national labor director for the N.A.A.C.P., more than 40 out of every 100 black women are unemployed...