Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Paul Couming, a draft resister who faces a possible 15-year sentence for draft law violations, also spoke at the meeting...
...want some facts? How about these: It is worse than we can imagine. Hundreds of thousands are dead; we've dropped many more bombs to implement our policy of 'forced-draft urbanization" in Vietnam than we used on the Nazis. Noam Chomsky (one of the few for whom I feel no contempt) writes, "By March 1969 the total level of bombardment had reached 130,000 tons a month-nearly two Hiroshimas a week in South Vietnam and Laos, defenseless countries." "Go easy on words like genocide," Henry Kissinger told students who visited him in the White House...
According to some critics, the preliminary draft of Nixon's bill contains several possible flaws. Most serious is the lack of strong national standards for planning. This might well leave the field to weak state standards favoring assorted special interests. Moreover, the bill now requires the states to control only big developments and new projects in special areas; elsewhere, wasteful land uses involving urban sprawl and roadside slurbs could easily continue. Nonetheless, most conservationists agree that the Administration has taken a vital step by merely identifying land use as a key national problem...
...whirling toward a record volume last week, an equally hectic scene of wheeling and dealing was going on at a Manhattan hotel. There, representatives from the 26 teams of the National Football League were bidding for blue-chip college players in an annual conflict known as the professional-football draft. Once a relatively simple affair, the draft has become an increasingly complex struggle involving months of research, computer readouts, secret deals and more triple reverses than are ever seen on the gridiron...
...More Shoveling. There was a time when pro scouts were less convinced; in last year's draft, Murphy was the only All-America player who was not snapped up in the first round. His pride offended, he was all but ready to sign with the Harlem Magicians, a team styled after the Harlem Globetrotters. Then, reflecting on his childhood in Norwalk, Conn., he decided that he had shoveled the snow off the playground courts too many times, had practiced with weights on his ankles too many hours not "to prove myself one more time." He has. A favorite with...