Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MARINES ARE LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD MEN. So says the recruiting motto for America's elite fighting force. But since the draft was abolished in 1973, the Marines, as well as the other branches of the U.S. armed forces, have been having considerable difficulty filling their ranks. As a result, a Senate armed services subcommittee was told last week, some Marine recruiters sign up criminals, illiterates, men who are physically unfit -almost anyone who walks through the recruiting-office door...
...public works bill that Jimmy Carter vetoed was a hodgepodge of hundreds of energy-producing and water-control projects. Many were clearly commendable (and supported by the President), such as the creation of a second deep-draft channel to relieve Honolulu's congested harbor and an irrigation project in northern Washington to nourish some 10,000 acres of apple orchards. But the bill also contained some projects benefiting so few people that Carter criticized them as wasteful. Some examples...
...acknowledged, however, that he had been recruited by Gangster John Roselli in the early '60s for the CIA-backed plot to murder Cuban President Fidel Castro. He joined, he said, chiefly out of patriotism: "It was like in World War II. They tell you to go to the draft board and sign up. Well, I signed up." Besides, he had a grudge to settle against Castro for closing down the casinos after seizing power in 1959. According to Trafficante, the mobsters considered "poison, planes, tanks. I'm telling you, they talked about everything." Eventually they chose poison pills...
...minutes record only rare instances of dissent. On Sept. 12, 1977, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Patricia Harris told Attorney General Griffin Bell that "she had read an early draft of the Bakke brief and that, in her opinion, it needed considerable improvement." But there were no recorded dissents during several meetings last fall when Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall incorrectly calculated that the odds were against a coal strike, or on Nov. 7, 1977, when Treasury Secretary Blumenthal argued that the position of the dollar abroad "is not as bad as it may appear here...
SATURDAY. While Begin stays in his cottage during Sabbath, others play Ping Pong and billiards. Sadat again up early, walking in woods, stays aloof even from his own delegation. Vance Aide Harold Saunders, after nightlong labors, produces first draft of American proposals. Americans spend all day working through three more drafts. (There will ultimately...