Word: draft
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...students of draft age, we recognize the risks of war. We are wary of entering a conflict with an uncertain end. But we also recognize that there are sometimes compelling reasons for military intervention. The situation in Bosnia-Herzegovena justifies force...
Last week's decision does open the door to another intriguing debate -- about the draft. The Supreme Court ruled in 1981 that women were excluded from registration because any reinstated draft would be intended to increase the pool of people available for combat. Now that combat planes and ships are open to women, might they be considered part of the available personnel pool in a major conflict? The Pentagon says that for now it has no plans to ask for any changes in the Selective Service system...
...referendum as a "sociological poll," and parliament chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov said it had "brought no losers or winners" -- just a weakening of the state. Yeltsin, however, took his victory as a mandate to begin strengthening his political clout. He summoned regional leaders to Moscow to present a new draft constitution that would turn Russia into a presidential republic with a two-chamber parliament to replace the present Congress of People's Deputies...
Assistant Professor of the Classics Cynthia E. Damon said some Faculty Council members raised questions about the expense of any changes that might be made to the current structure of concentrations. In general, the draft was received positively, Damon said...
Knowles said the preliminary draft will be refined and discussed, and he said next fall all departmental faculty will receive a copy of the document. A form of the document could eventually be discussed at a full Faculty meeting as well, Knowles said...