Word: draft
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...rift between Clinton and the military? This bad: the Air Force is investigating whether Major General Harold Campbell called the President "draft dodging," "gay loving," "pot smoking" and "womanizing" in a speech three weeks ago at an Air Force banquet in the Netherlands. Because the Uniform Code of Military Justice bars officers from making "contemptuous" remarks about the President or other senior government officials, Campbell could face court-martial, one year in prison and loss of $66,000 a year in retirement pay. However, the White House seemed disinclined to get into a scrape with...
Clinton had started the week uncertainly, braving shouts of "Draft dodger!" and "Shut up, coward!" at his ceremonial Memorial Day visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The President, who knelt to make a rubbing of the name of a boyhood friend, James Herbert Jeffries, also received some applause...
...record, though, no one would come forward with the charges. And editors interviewed say that all copies of Ogletree's original draft have disappeared from the files and computer systems--making the accusations virtually impossible to prove...
Whether to commit to the draft in football and basketball or to play for one's draftee out of baseball and hockey, more and more juniors, sophomores, and even freshmen leave school early every year...
More than 100,000 dead. More than four million refugees. As students of draft age, we recognize the risks of war. We are wary of entering a confilct with an uncertain end. But we also recognize that there are sometimes compelling reasons for military interventions...