Word: drafted
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Coleman helped draft the brief that led to the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision outlawing school segregation. He defended Freedom Riders and sit-in demonstrators in the 1960s and represented the N.A.A.C.P. in a case that found unconstitutional a Florida law prohibiting cohabitation between the races. At the request of former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton, he led the legal fight to desegregate Girard College in 1965. Coleman served on the Eisenhower National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, President Kennedy's Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Warren Commission and the federal Price Commission...
WITH ITS FINAL deadline only two weeks away, the Ford administration's ill-conceived draft evasion Clemency Board has taken to the airwaves in a last-ditch effort to lure takers...
...Ford administration apparently isn't yet willing to recognize that most draft resisters and evaders of the Vietnam War era don't feel they've done anything they need clemency for--and they haven't. They offered legitimate resistance to an illegitimate...
...program that asks draft resisters to come back and beg for mercy while the men behind the war machine remain in power, and then serve two years of alternate service while watching Henry Kissinger '50 flying back and forth selling bombs and planes, lacks honesty, integrity, and all the other things Father Hesburgh seems to be pushing...
...omission of any direct reference to Israel's place in Judaism was a victory for factions in the Vatican Secretariat of State who are known to favor better relations with Arab states. To Jews, it appeared to be a clear step backward from an earlier working draft of guidelines in 1969-leaked at that time to the press but subsequently shelved-which urged Christians to "respect the religious significance of this link between the people and the land." Tanenbaum and other Jewish leaders are scheduled to meet this week in Rome with their Vatican counterparts, and that link between...