Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jean-Claude Navatte's Marxist-evangelist Christian Student Youth organization-helped transform hundreds of France's often-bored secondary-school students into a politically conscious, slogan-chanting pressure group powerful enough to put the government on the defensive and to force it to resubmit a controversial new draft law to the legislature (TIME, April 16). Radicals have also been marketing their "Marxist humanism" up and down factory assembly lines in Paris and other cities. As a result, France's floating population of 3,000,000 unskilled workers from Spain, Portugal and Africa have become a new minority...
...Combat Zone is O'Brien's personal war story. The draft caught him after graduation from Macalester College in 1968 and kept him from going on to graduate school at Harvard. Prolonged dialogue on Vietnam had convinced him that if war itself was not wrong, this one, at least, was. He and his classmates mourned Bobby Kennedy and came clean for Gene. For most of his friends -- those who had secured letters from doctors and priests -- Vietnam ended at that...
...defendant but "on the conduct of the undercover Government agent." A friend-of-the-court brief filed in the Russell case by the A.C.L.U. had contended that the rule against entrapment had not stopped undercover agents from fostering serious crimes -such as the Camden, N.J., raid on draft files for which a paid Government informer provided key plans of the target office and allegedly stirred up the plot again when it was all but moribund. Concluded Stewart: "It is the Government's duty to prevent crime, not to promote...
...government requires all major Federal contractors to draft an extensive plan for ending discriminatory hiring practices. Federally funded universities and businesses failing to supply the government with required data risk loss of government contracts...
...There is no affirmative action in the University Library. Discrimination goes on here," Ruth Washington, secretary at Lamont and one of the people who helped draft the letter to Leonard yesterday...