Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when he met the press, he was critical of the legislature. Congress, he said, had not been "responsible on money." What really aroused his ire, though, was a question on whether recent calls for a healing of the nation's wounds might lead to an amnesty for draft resisters. Nixon glowered, gripped both sides of the lectern and hunched low over the microphone. "Well," he said, "it takes two to heal wounds, and I must say that when I see the most vigorous criticism or, shall we say, the least pleasure out of the peace agreement comes from those...
Thus he dismissed the notion that draft evaders might pay their debt to society by performing some useful service. In fact, he implied that working in the Peace Corps is not especially useful at all. The Administration, he went on, had done the best it could "against very great obstacles. We finally achieved a peace with honor. I know it gags some of you to write that phrase, but it is true-and most Americans realize it is true...
...There is a stereotype of the draft evader or deserter in Canada," reported TIME Correspondent Henry Muller. "He is shaggy, has no job, lurks in 'hideouts; fears the Mounties and yearns for homemade bread back in Iowa. Certainly the type exists, but one must also count the law students, bank employees, doctors, surveyors, social workers, university teachers and accountants-some of them straight, some of them not-as well as the lonely fellows who peddle the local radical sheet in front of department stores." A sampling...
...Boston Bruins drafted Hynes in 1971, and one year later the New England Whalers selected him in the first draft of the newly formed World Hockey Association. Hynes said that he had not decided where he would play...
...Rentzel became a starter at halfback. During his senior year he led the Big Eight Conference in yards-per-carry, and in 1965 he was selected as the second-round draft choice of the Minnesota Vikings. Rentzel was leaving O.U. as a Golden Boy, the handsome athlete from a rich family who was a fine football player and a tireless playboy. Yet, at one point in the book, Rentzel writes bitterly, "What had I really learned in those four years? Nothing...