Word: drafted
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When John Brode '52 lost his citizenship during the Korean War for leaving the country to avoid the draft, he could not have guessed that he would be running for a seat on the Cambridge City Council in 1975. But the McCarran Act, the instrument of Brode's exile, was declared unconstitutional in 1957, enabling him to return...
...draft EIS was showered with criticism during the legally required three-month period for public comment. Although the Forest Service claims that 56 percent of the responses favored development; California's sharp rejection of the EIS reflects the views of many that the Mineral King impact statement was far from impartial. The state's Secretary for Resources wrote that the draft EIS was "premature" and that it appears to be "a conclusionary rather than a questioning document." This and other critical letters forced the Forest Service back to its drawing board; to patch up flagrant weaknesses in the draft...
First, a suit filed by the Sierra Club forced the Forest Service to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), a crucial, recently passed environmental law. The court victory delayed action on Mineral King for several years; the Forest Service took until December 1974 to publish the draft environmental impact statement (EIS) on the project mandated by NEPA...
Mineral King has also taken on a symbolic meaning, since it embraces many issues tied to the expanding American search for energy and society's attempts to pillage shrinking wilderness reserves. Not surprisingly, the Mineral King draft EIS--a voluminous tome whose cover pictures the resort's ersatz-Swiss-chalet-style village--tends to ignore larger issues...
...even if he is ready to play next year (he almost certainly won't play this year), McInally faces stiff competition from excellent Bengal ends, with more on the way, probably, after this year's draft. But he still thinks he has a future in the NFL-- kicking...