Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Steve, 20, mustachioed, with brown hair down to his shoulders, is considered by his sisters to be the brightest of the offspring. Steve recently went through rigorous soul-searching about the draft. He considered applying for conscientious-objector status, but did not have to because he drew a high lottery number. At the moment he is boning up on his classical guitar and piano while he decides where, or even whether, to go to college...
Rogers offered a high-priority draft treaty outlining specific anti-terror measures and called for a convention next year to act on them. The treaty would provide for automatic extradition or prosecution of terrorists and sanctions against any nation that allows them training facilities or sanctuary. Rogers underscored his arguments with a grim roll call of terrorist acts this year alone. They include...
...draft treaty glossed over a serious weakness, one that caused the failure of a special meeting on skyjacking held in Washington last month by members of the International Civil Aviation Organization. There, the Soviet Union demanded that all skyjackers, without exception, be returned to their country of origin. The U.S. and Western European nations oppose any resolution that might end the traditional right to grant political sanctuary. Even Israel, the strongest advocate of anti-terror measures, would be in a quandary if Soviet Jews were to skyjack an Aeroflot plane and fly it to Tel Aviv...
Considering all those obstacles, chances are slim for getting the treaty past the draft stage. Washington now hopes to fight terrorists through bilateral arrangements with like-minded countries. Toward that end, Rogers will discuss the situation with 51 different foreign ministers...
Several secondary factors have also contributed to the decline of the liberal schools. They have come to the end of the era of such theological stars as Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich. They are no longer deluged with draft dodgers and dissidents-or even the great numbers of social activists-who swelled their enrollments in the late '60s, while the evangelical schools have begun to reap a rich harvest from the Jesus movement. Union and Chicago are also losing out on new students because of their crime-ridden urban locations...