Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...neck problem may make pro teams hesitant to draft him (New York Jets scouts were here looking at Pete Varney and Frisbie three weeks ago), but Rick's interest in playing pro football has waned as his career has progressed. "Of course I'll talk if anyone offers," said Frisbie, "but right now I'm planning to go to law school...
...absent-minded way the United States in Viet Nam may well have stumbled upon the answer to 'wars of national liberation.' The effective response lies neither in the quest for conventional military victory nor in the esoteric doctrines and gimmicks of counter-insurgency warfare. It is instead forced-draft urbanization and modernization which rapidly brings the country in question out of the phase in which a rural revolutionary movement can hope to generate sufficient strength to come to power...
...said that Kennedy is against legalized abortion, legalized marijuana, and an end to the draft. He also said that Kennedy had voted against equal rights for women...
...following groups: the Parti Quebecoise, a separatist party which won 23 per cent of the popular vote in Quebec's parliamentary election last April; the Comites des Ouvriers, a collection of citizens' committees which have been organizing pro-separatist campaigns in voter districts around Montreal; and the American Draft Resisters' Committee...
...first Solzhenitsyn demurred, but the reporter persisted. "The world is interested in your reaction," Hegge said. Finally, Solzhenitsyn agreed to draft a statement, which he then read to Hegge. "I accept the prize," said Solzhenitsyn. "As far as it will depend on me, I intend to receive the prize in person on the traditional day." To make sure no one could say that he was too ill to travel, Solzhenitsyn added: "I am in good health...