Word: drafted
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Most of the approximately 100 political prisoners in the United States are draft resisters, while a substantial minority are civil rights cases. "Political imprisonment is a lot less heinous in this country than in others because we don't think that prisoners are being tortured and starved here as they are in Latin American counties," White explains...
...Circuit Court of Appeals was prompted by Burger's endorsement, and in Blackmun's first term the two differed on only 10% of the cases. They have never again been so much in accord, but a key split took place last July after the Chief wrote a draft of the court's unanimous opinion in U.S. v. Nixon, the explosive Executive privilege case. Most of the Justices found major sections of Burger's version sadly wanting, and Byron White and Potter Stewart prepared new language. TIME has learned that when the two confronted Burger with their...
Even in the best of times the tropical Caribbean island nation of Haiti has severe problems feeding itself. More than 80% of the country's 5 million people live on tiny farms. Agricultural techniques are generally primitive; in some areas plows and draft animals are unknown, and the unfertile limestone terrain is cultivated with hoes and machetes. When it rains in Haiti, the corn and beans flourish and the people eat. When drought comes, as it has with increasing frequency over the past two decades, crops shrivel in the arid soil and people starve. The Haitian government believes that...
Long Romance. During World War II, Giancana stayed out of the service by being honest. What do you do for a living? his draft board asked. "I steal," Giancana replied. The board promptly rejected him for Army duty, describing him as "a constitutional psychopath [with] an inadequate personality and strong anti-social trends...
...major goal of the official conference is to draft a ten-year plan of action for member nations that will stress better health care and education for women and their increased participation in government. Yet global politics seemed to be the main preoccupation, at least at the outset. Mexico's President Echeverria opened the proceedings by calling for a redistribution of world wealth and political power to bring about a "new international order." The International Women's Year could not make good on its promise of peace, declared Mrs. Sadat, "while Arab lands remain occupied, while the Palestinians...