Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year ending June 30. Since Nixon last week ruled out any new federal taxes, he will probably find himself with at least the $15 billion deficit for fiscal 1972 that he needs to make a dent in unemployment. The budget figures have not yet been fixed, however. Draft chapters circulating in the OMB had blank spaces where some numbers should have been. In one, a wag wrote: " 'A few honest men are better than numbers'-Oliver Cromwell...
...officials, who must administer the new program, are divided as to its merits. Some feel that the plan, which provides draft exemptions for participating physicians, will be used merely as a means to avoid military service...
...Francisco Warriors feels that the four-year rule "is the guts of our player-acquisition program. Without it, we'd have a no man's land of finances in which a kid would be bombarded by offers. It would certainly make a mockery of the draft." As for the merger, Owner Bill Daniels of the A.B.A.'s Utah Stars says that the two leagues must end their warring ways-or else. "Whether we sign the top players or whether they sign them," he says, "it's going to cost ten times as much...
...that the blacks who fill prisons (52% in Illinois) see themselves as "political victims" of a racist society. It is a time when many middle-class whites are forced to confront prisons for the first time, there to visit their own children, locked up for possession of pot or draft resistance. A time when many judges have finally begun to make personal ?and traumatic?inspections. After a single night at the Nevada State Prison, for example, 23 judges from all over the U.S. emerged "appalled at the homosexuality," shaken by the inmates' "soul-shattering bitterness" and upset...
...BERRIGANS. After being convicted for their 1967-68 draft-board raids in Baltimore and Catonsville, Md., the nation's most famous peace criminals. Fathers Daniel and Philip Berrigan, jumped bail and eluded FBI agents for weeks before their capture last year. Despite their confinement in the minimum-security federal prison at Danbury, Conn., the two Roman Catholic priests are still bucking the system. Daniel, 49, a Jesuit and poet, is serving a three-year sentence and working as a dental assistant. Philip, 47, a member of the Josephite fathers and a polemicist, is in for six years and doing...