Word: draft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prospect of spending my weekend on the way to boot camp. Although everyone assured me that the notice wasn't real, I still felt compelled to call Senator Kerry's office to make sure--after all, no one wants to take any chances when it comes to the draft. What I found out when I called the senator's office was that almost 100 other people who received the notices had also been sufficiently alarmed to call. It was then that I decided that this action posed by the Committee on Central America (COCA) was not an issue about...
...issues, and some have been more successful than others. Apparently, however, the plethora of groups involved in tabling, postering, organizing meetings and holding rallies has made it increasingly difficult to grab the average student's attention. Because of this fact, COCA took the attention-grabbing step of placing falsified draft notices with a forged signature of Senator Kerry in the mailboxes of 900 undergraduate...
Against the Cornhuskers, Harvard can test its mettle against the Big Eight, a league that has produced 1988 national champion Kansas, and NBA first-round draft picks Danny Manning, Stacey King and Mitch Richmond. Nebraska, however, finished seventh in the conference last season and poses less of a threat than Duke. Nonetheless, the Crimson will have its hands full...
...Deputy Premier Jaromir Zak said on state-run TV that after long discussion, it was decided to drop the article enshrining the leading role of the Communists in the constitution from a new draft of the document...
...official CTK news agency said Parliament, until now a rubber-stamp body under firm Communist control, also would be open to discussion of any draft laws. Vladimir Janku, head of the state's commission on church affairs, was quoted as saying these changes would include new laws on religion that would end state control over churches and the criticized practice of licensing priests...