Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...distant from Hoover. A former Navy submarine commander, the acting director, at 55, is a firm believer in military-style discipline and old-fashioned American values. He attends Mass every morning and has told friends that the U.S. is suffering sure signs of moral sickness-mainly because of drugs, draft resisters and the New Left...
...motion, which sailed through the Philadelphia Presbytery, had asked only that the church reject COCU's current first-draft plan of union. But at Denver the assembly's grass-roots Bills and Overtures Committee strengthened the motion to provide for a complete pullout. The approval was all the more striking because in other respects the assembly was far from conservative; it approved a tough antiwar resolution and passed an approval of abortion-on-de-mand that goes well beyond traditional Presbyterian stands...
Ruling on cases growing out of draft-evasion and organized-crime investigations, Justice Powell announced 5-2 decisions upholding the new procedure. He said that such limited immunity provides just as much protection as the Fifth Amendment, because "it prohibits the prosecutorial authorities from using the compelled testimony in any respect." To make sure that the prosecution does not cheat, Powell said there is an "affirmative duty to prove that the evidence it proposes to use is derived from a legitimate source wholly independent of the compelled testimony...
Members of the Newton delegation to the Massachusetts Democratic Convention have initiated a movement to draft John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics, to oppose incumbent Edward Brooke in the U.S. senatorial race...
...still in the process of meeting to draft a recommendation," he said. "A decision in the case should be available at noon Wednesday following the Faculty meeting...