Word: draft
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After president Lyndon B. Johnson launchedbombing raids on northern Vietnam and called forincreases in the draft in February 1965, smallSDS-run demonstrations cropped up across thecountry...
...fully focused on the war inVietnam, planning regular protests. In the weekfollowing a sit-in at the Ann Arbor draft board,the national office received 1,000 newmemberships...
Katherine Coleman was married to an Army major and psychologist. "It's a myth that domestic violence doesn't happen in officers' families," says Coleman, now divorced and living in San Antonio, Texas. Her husband went so far as to draft a prenuptial pact detailing sexual obligations and rules governing outside friendships. She recalls him cornering her in the kitchen or bathroom and not letting her leave until she gave in to his demands. "We argued once for four hours in the kitchen, and he wouldn't let me out," she says. "I had to urinate on the kitchen floor...
...made of Tokyo's atrocities, the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor or the recalcitrance of Japan's military leaders in the late stages of the war -- the catalyst for the deployment of atomic weapons. John T. Correll, editor in chief of Air Force Magazine, noted that in the first draft there were 49 photos of Japanese casualties, against only three photos of American casualties. By his count there were four pages of text on Japanese atrocities, while there were 79 pages devoted to Japanese casualties and the civilian suffering, from not only the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
...however, as Congress seeks new ways to finance health coverage for the uninsured, the tax subsidy is losing its untouchable status, especially among members of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, who are working to draft a bipartisan alternative to the Clinton health plan. Two key Democrats, David Boren of Oklahoma and Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, last week endorsed a health- reform bill sponsored by Republican Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island that would limit the tax subsidy and use the saving to help the working poor buy health insurance...