Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Attention, attention please, the Boston Celtics are proud to present to its fans their number one draft choice--from Southern California--Paaaul West--Phal. Paul is a guest of Celtics General manager and is sitting in his private...
Revised order no, four came out almost two years later, after women from WEAL and NOW were consulted on the draft. The revised order required that the affirmative action plans contain a "utilization analysis" for women as well as for minorities, as was previously required. The definition of "Underutilization" of women is slightly different from that of minorities; the proportion of minority members on the work force is to be defined by the "minority population of the labor area surrounding the facility" while the acceptable proportion of women is to depend on "the availability of women seeking employment...
...issues, grossly confusing and repetitious." In one note breaking down the subdivisions under count 1, the all-important conspiracy charge, the jury asked: "Do we find some of the defendants guilty if we have evidence that they have conspired to commit A, B, C (the vandalizing of draft boards) and F (the Kissinger kidnaping) and if we cannot find enough evidence that anyone conspired to commit D and E (the bombing of heating tunnels)?" When the judge replied affirmatively, the defense charged that his answer "amounts to a directed verdict of guilty against at least some of the defendants...
...very first hours of the offensive, in fact, ARVN suffered only defeat. The big loser was the 3rd Division, whose troops abandoned 14 firebases below the DMZ in five days. The 3rd was a newly formed unit, raised largely by conscription, of local men, including a good many draft dodgers and delinquents. Considering the ferocity of the initial North Vietnamese barrage, retreat made sense. But it was not sensibly executed. Some units quit the field so quickly that they failed to spike their guns. Many 3rd Division soldiers joined the 50,000 refugees who fled south for sanctuary in Quang...
...involving Black Panthers. Currently, civil libertarians are questioning the propriety of the prosecution's use of Boyd Douglas, the FBI informant central to the just-concluded Harrisburg Seven trial (see THE NATION). Still more questions have been raised by the ongoing trial of 28 people accused of destroying draft files in Camden, N.J. Four weeks ago, Robert Hardy, a paid FBI informer, suddenly announced that Government money had been supplied for gas, trucks, tools and other items necessary to the raid. He contends that he acted in effect as an agent provocateur, rekindling interest in the project when...