Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Government major. Bernhard plans to return home and do social work after graduation. "That's if I can stay out of the draft." he explained. "I may not know how to play poker, but coming up number two in the lottery is just not coming through with all the cards...
Dale Dover, picked in the tenth round of the NBA draft by the Boston Celtics, said he'll "definitely make an all-out attempt" to secure a place on the team when the rookie training camp opens this summer at Camp Milbrook in nearby Marshfield...
...sure like to make the team, although it's going to be difficult," said the 6' 2" senior guard and captain of this year's Crimson squad. "They usually don't look past the first two or three draft picks, so the work is going...
...leadership was under attack because of grave shortcomings in the economy, Brezhnev managed to consolidate his power with the help of the KGB (secret police) and Marshal Andrei Grechko, the Defense Minister. As a sign of Brezhnev's ascendancy, his was the only signature to appear on the draft of the new five-year plan (1971-75). It was the first time such a document was signed by a single person since 1952?when the sole signature was Joseph Stalin's. Still, Brezhnev is 64, overweight, and has had one heart attack...
Joan Baez had something special to sing about-Husband David Harris, 25, was free after serving 20 months for refusing to register for the draft. Joan, 30, and their 16-month-old son Gabriel met him at the penitentiary near El Paso; from there, they flew to a San Francisco press conference. David plans "getting my feet on the ground" and then (with the permission of his parole officer) to go back to resisting the Indochinese war and the Selective Service. His resistance will be nonviolent, because nonviolence is "the most powerful tool available to anybody in this society...