Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week in New York, Queens Democratic Leader Matthew Troy, an early McGovern backer, made it known that he was about to start a draft-Ted boom for the No. 2 slot; so Kennedy flip-flopped again. He telephoned Troy to call him off, and then issued the flat statement: "There are no circumstances under which I would accept a nomination for any national office this year...
...stopped short of proposing sanctions or mandatory extradition of hijackers, as demanded by the pilots. The U.S. has come out for neither action, favoring instead appropriate trial and penalty within local laws. In Montreal, however, the International Civil Aviation Organization, a specialized U.N. agency, directed its legal committee to draft a convention permitting sanctions against nations that shelter or fail to punish hijackers...
Beleaguered though it appeared, the A.M.A. was in no mood for a radical internal overhaul. Last November, then-President Wesley Hall proposed that the A.M.A. draft an entirely new constitution. Despite speculation that the issue would at least be debated last week, it was barely mentioned. Instead, the hierarchy and the house of delegates administered verbal tranquilizers to those on both sides of several questions. While there was vocal opposition, for instance, to doctors' unions, which Hoffman thought would be improper, the delegates deferred taking any formal position on them...
...standard German classroom scene: a snowy-haired professor reading from his next book and refusing to answer student questions. At the same time, militant students from West Germany flocked to the campus, partly because Berlin was exciting, but also because the move to Berlin exempted them from the military draft. Built for only 10,000 students, the Free University eventually grew to more than...
After the weekend, the euphoria passes and increasing numbers of students returned to class. A two-hour sit-in Monday at the Cambridge draft board drew only 100 persons and the novelty of the Mass Hall occupation wore off. The denouement hit rock bottom at the Tuesday night mass meeting, which had been slated by the first gathering to "discuss the response of both the Harvard Administration and the U.S. to the current crisis...