Word: draft
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...calculating a sort of social triage: at a time when infant mortality is scandalously high and public health - care is a shambles, does it make sense for taxpayers to spend tens of thousands of dollars a year to keep each unconscious patient alive? Lawmakers are struggling with how to draft laws carefully enough to protect life while respecting individual choice. Theologians are debating how sacred life can be if we take it upon ourselves...
...gear that he and his platoon carried are precisely itemized: a 26-lb. radio, an 8.2-lb. fully loaded M-16, a 20-lb. pack of necessities, including canteens of water. There are heavier burdens. The chapter "On the Rainy River" finds the narrator considering a dodge from the draft. It is set mainly at a fishing camp in Minnesota where young Tim can practically cast a line across to Canada. The scenery and tone suggest early Hemingway; the difference is that O'Brien's uncertain youth must still go to war before he can join a lost generation...
...Sandinista army may prove to be the bigger headache for the incoming Chamorro administration. Despite an increase in conscript desertions since the elections, the army's 15,000-strong professional core remains well disciplined and loyal to the Sandinistas. Chamorro has vowed to abolish the draft and reduce the size of the military. Luis Humberto Guzman, a member of U.N.O.'s senior advisory board, has said that military spending should not exceed 15% of the budget. Under Ortega, defense expenditures totaled 50% of the budget. For that reason alone, demobilization of both armies makes sense if Nicaragua is going...
...code of canon law includes rules for exorcism, specifying that only a bishop may authorize one. Rome still holds fast to belief in Satan: in a 1986 sermon, Pope John Paul insisted upon the reality of a personal devil and recognized the possibility of demonic possession. The secret draft for a forthcoming Catechism for the Universal Church, now being examined by the world's bishops, continues the traditional teachings about Satan and fallen angels...
While the Lithuanian parliament has set up a committee to draft a declaration of independence, some nationalists favor a statement that Lithuania remains a sovereign state that has been occupied by the Soviet Union for 50 years. This would establish a firm legal basis for the independence decree and also allow Lithuanians to claim the republic's property, including 95 factories that still obey orders from ministries in Moscow. Before taking such a step, however, some Sajudis leaders would prefer to hold a referendum, in which they estimate about 75% would favor independence...