Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opinions tend toward the predictable: "peace with honor" in a war that the President inherited and is only trying to end?just don't turn it over to the Communists overnight. (It is interesting that the word Commie has all but disappeared from the political lexicon.) No amnesty for draft resisters. Busing is bad, or else does not matter much any more...
...passion in the world," H.G. Wells once observed, "is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft." Wells might have been guilty of some hyperbole, but many writers, including some of ours, share his suspicion of editors' passions and pencils. Christopher Porterfield, in planning the cover story on TV Producers Bud Yorkin and Norman Lear, skirted the problem. One of the sections he presides over as a senior editor is Show Business & TV. He assigned himself to write the story, then served as his own editor. No one could quarrel with his credentials in either role...
...unresolved question with fascinating possibilities is whether American war protesters in countries such as Canada or Sweden should be allowed to vote. Presumably they would cast their ballots for George McGovern, who has promised an eventual amnesty for draft resisters. But since many states refuse the vote to felons, and since a draft evader would face prosecution if he returned to the U.S., is he still entitled to vote...
...draft situation is getting better and lots of people can get rid of needles worry if they flad out what's going on," Schendel said...
...Cambridge draft board has a new location this year, having moved over the summer from the second floor of City Hall to an office in the Fresh Pond Shopping Center. The City Hall draft board office was the scene last year of a noisy confrontation between antiwar demonstrators and Cambridge Mayor Barbars Ackermann, whose offices were nearby...