Word: draft
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...appointed commander of the Croatian Serb forces in mid-May, Mrksic declared that he wanted to create a highly professional army. Since then he has set up mobile brigades equipped with tanks and artillery, and is said to have initiated the rounding up of Croatian Serb refugees of draft age in Serbia. Though Milosevic denies it, since mid-June police in Serbia have been sweeping up military-age Serbs born in Bosnia and Croatia -- at least 3,000 by some estimates-and shipping them back for instant induction into Serb armies...
Milosevic says his plan requires a partnership between the U.S. and Yugoslavia as overseers to bring the settlement about, a process he describes as "Americanizing the peace," which, given America's reluctance to engage in the region, seems equally unlikely. He first produced the draft of his proposal last March during secret (but White House-sanctioned) meetings with Democratic Congressman Bill Richardson at Karadjordjevo, a presidential hunting lodge in northern Serbia. Richardson had been invited by Milosevic to pass on to Washington an offer of cooperation, but the Congressman was tasked by the Administration to take the occasion to urge...
...contract was announced by the Hartford, Conn. team Tuesday, and follows Martins' graduation from Harvard this past June. Martins was the fifth overall pick in the NHL's 1994 Supplementary Draft...
...Supplementary Draft, which used to allow players over the age of 20 to be drafted to the NHL, gave the Whalers the rights to Martins as a player upon his graduation from Harvard. The Supplementary Draft was abolished last year...
...ceremony Tuesday. Storm coulds are already gathering, at least among Republican presidential candidates. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole and Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas have criticized Clinton for moving toward normalization; Rep. Bob Dornan (R-Calif.), who may soon withdraw from the race, on Sunday called Clinton a "triple draft dodger" and told NBC's "Meet the Press" that establishing diplomatic ties was "going to deny him a second term for sure." But Clinton will have formidable support Tuesday: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz), a former Navy pilot who spent six years in aHanoi prisoner-of-war camp.Said McCain Sunday...