Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many foreign countries began to discover environmental problems. Russia, Sweden and New Zealand banned DDT. The Japanese in particular were enraged by the effects of forced-draft industrialization on their lovely country. After 48 schoolchildren were felled by photochemical smog in Tokyo last summer, kogai (environmental disruption) became the nation's top issue. Last week Japan's Diet responded by enacting 14 tough new laws aimed at sending big polluters to prison...
...corps of college seniors has already completed its toughest course: three long, hard seasons on the gridiron. For most of the students, Jan. 28 will bring what amounts to the final exam. That is when the 26 teams that constitute the National Football League will meet to select their draft choices, and the pros are nothing if not thorough in casing the prospects. College records, glowing press clippings, gaudy trophies mean nothing in themselves. All that counts is a player's potential for prospering in the brutal world of pro football-a survival test that is measured in size...
...back passer with a strong, accurate arm at all ranges. Rival coaches praise his tactical knowledge, his knack for reading defenses, his ability to command "the utmost respect of his teammates"-all highly negotiable currency in the pros, who are quite likely to peg him No. 1 in the draft. The pros are also high on Archie Manning of Ole Miss, 6 ft. 3½ in., 205 lbs. A scrambler in the mold of the New York Giants' Fran Tarkenton, Manning can pick out a receiver in a crowd of defenders and hit him with a pinpoint pass...
...services who had signed for another term. He re-emphasized his conviction that the long-term solution to the manpower dilemma is to make military life so appealing that an all-volunteer service becomes feasible. Optimistically, he has set 1973 as the target date for ending the draft, except as a stand-by mechanism to meet new emergencies. There are grave doubts among many military commanders that the draft can be ended that soon. But the possibility makes the revitalization of service life that much more important...
...promised a return to democracy as soon as conditions were right. Unlike many another strongman, he apparently means to keep his word. Last week's elections were held to choose delegates to a constitutional convention. When the delegates meet in January, they will have 120 days to draft a document that meets Yahya's approval. If they fail, he will order new elections; if they succeed, they will stay on as members of a 313-seat National Assembly...