Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among the notables in the class is Mitchell Goodman, a codefendant in Dr. Benjamin Spock's draft conspiracy trial. Goodman said he is not attending FunFest '45. which he called "an obscenity in a time like this," but will participate in a panel discussion at 10:45 a.m. today in Lowell Lecture Hall...
...older residents who might otherwise favor Philbin are finding Drinan's liberal stance palatable because of his Roman collar. Says Drinan, former provost of Boston College and dean of the law school: "I'm not Father Groppi or Dan Berrigan. T don't burn draft records or take to the streets. I believe in working within the law for change. People listen to what I have...
Generally Restive. Jackson State, a coed school of 4,557 about a mile from the state capital, had been generally restive over fears that black graduates would soon be at the mercy of white draft boards. Rock-throwing violence had flared Wednesday night, and 500 National Guardsmen were standing by off the campus...
...preoccupied with the problem of law and order. This fact is curious in itself, since Europe is suffering from none of the specific agonies that are presently afflicting the U.S. There is no angry debate over Viet Nam to polarize European populations, no comparable student concern with the draft, no race problem of remotely similar scope...
...exterminated and replaced by African slaves. As years passed, bloods mixed, profits dwindled, and Trinidad became little more than a backwater of the stagnant Spanish empire. In 1797, the British occupied the island, with plans for launching a revolution in South America. They even went so far as to draft a British-style constitution for an independent Spanish-American country. But such grandiose dreams were lost in the swamps of political and logistical reality...