Word: drafted
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...conservatism-for dread signs of "Portugalization." French government officials believe that leftists have taken advantage of the recent military malaise to alienate the army. Defense Minister Bourges claims that Portuguese officers have been dispatched to France to spread revolution in the army and that more than 100 Frenchmen of draft age have gone to Portugal to learn subversive tactics they can put to use when drafted at home. The government has also accused the Socialist Party-a partner of the Communists in France's United Left-of causing trouble in the army by supporting soldiers' committees. The Socialists...
...Muncie has changed all that. Playing with a combination of power and brains that left defenses wondering where he would strike next, the Cal tailback scored 14 touchdowns, averaged 132yds. rushing per game, and caught 37 passes for 354 yds. this season. He could well be the No. 1 draft choice of the pros next month. He helped carry California to their best record (eight wins, three losses) in 24 years...
Meanwhile, a group of unofficial House representatives met Tuesday night at Dunster to try to draft proposals to reform the CRR, but was unable to agree on any substantive resolutions...
Irons laughs, a little embarrassed about the number of organizations in which he seems to have been an active force--the Student Peace Union (a draft resistance group he helped found in the early 60s), the Socialist Party, the Southern Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). His FBI files, tucked into his Law School course catalogue, are an accurate record of the meetings he attended, the times he was arrested, the dates on which he spoke at hearings. True to FBI form, all names except the subject's own are deleted--including J. Edgar Hoover's, which is faintly visible through...
This week, Irons's lawyer told him he might get his conviction expunged. The FBI's record of his correspondance with his draft board shows that the office declared him delinquent in order to hasten both his induction and, ultimately, his convictions as a draft-evader. Under a recent Supreme Court decision, such convictions can be retroactively overturned...