Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Unmistakable Message. The doves found one bright spot among the disarray. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield's amendment calling for complete troop withdrawal within six months after an agreement to release American P.O.W.s passed for the second time this year. The original amendment, tied to the draft-extension bill, was watered down in the House-Senate Conference Committee; a similar fate could await the second amendment. Although the amendment is not binding on President Nixon, its passage carries an unmistakable message to the White House: despite the week's defeats, the doves are still capable of mustering Senate...
...26th session last week, the traditionally wide-ranging opening debate allowed almost everyone a chance to speak his mind on almost anything. Amid the logorrhea, the delegates were able to point to one U.N. achievement. From Geneva, representatives of 25 nations forwarded to the General Assembly a draft agreement to destroy germ weapons. The U.N. must approve the convention, and then the nations who sign it will have nine months to reduce their bacteriological arsenals...
...Plunkett of New England, 6 ft. 3 in., 210 Ibs., came to the lowly Patriots from Stanford as the N.F.L.'s No. 1 draft choice. In the season's opener against Oakland, one of the strongest teams in the American Football Conference, Plunkett completed only six of 15 passes; but two were touchdown tosses of 33 yds. and 22 yds., and he led the Patriots to a stunning 20-6 upset victory. "I don't think we can transform the Patriots into a winning team in one year," he says realistically, "but I've been pleasantly...
...Allows potential draftees to present witnesses and demand written reports on adverse draft-board rulings. It also requires that the composition of draft boards reflect the racial and ethnic composition of their communities...
...with its $600 billion G.N.P., for second place. Kahn envisions the 21st century as "the Japanese century," the time when the hardworking, disciplined people of Japan will even surpass the prolific but bedeviled U.S. Richard Nixon stated the challenge last week as he sent to the Senate the treaty draft that restores Japanese sovereignty over Okinawa. Said the President: "The potential for cooperation between our two economies, the world's most productive and the world's most dynamic, is clearly immense." But he warned: "The problems involved in strengthening the fabric of peace in Asia and the Pacific will undoubtedly...