Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT is all but finished, and Ken Booth knows it. Vietnam, the draft, the '60s--they seem to have been forgotten. When Booth, the central figure in John Godey's novel The Talisman, and a few others who have stayed with the movement demonstrate at the White House, not even the FBI shows up to take their photographs. So Booth searches for another way to reach the public, another way for the movement to get the attention it needs. He decides they will steal the remains of the Unknown Soldier of World War II, as ransom...
...right of U.S. warships to have priority in transiting the canal in emergencies. Carter then decided to take the initiative. Early in the week he invited the leaders of the Senate and the Foreign Relations Committee to the White House. Over coffee and doughnuts, he showed them a draft of a proposed "statement of understanding" on defense rights and revealed that he had invited Torrijos to stop off at the White House on his way back to Panama after a trip to Europe and the Middle East...
Wyatt said yesterday he has not seen a first draft of Howland's report, adding' that he had not expected to receive the final study until the end of the month...
...embassy in Panama to the State Department, predicted "increasing irritation" over differing interpretations of the wording of the treaty, which guarantees American warships the right "to transit the canal expeditiously" after 1999. To dampen senatorial wrath, the State Department late in the week said the U.S. and Panama would draft a statement clarifying the disputed provisions...
...manner in which the upgrading was handled displays a painful double standard of justice for those who resisted during the war in Vietnam. Draft evaders, who were generally white, middle-class, and college-educated, received a blanket pardon. Deserters, however, who were largely black, poor, or ill-educated, were given the burden of applying to have their discharges upgraded to erase the official stigma. Those who were aware of the program, who were not afraid of battling the bureaucracy once more, and who were eligible for the program, were given upgraded discharges. But the process should have been much simpler...