Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first day of school Lisa searched for the Boston Draft Resistance group instead of course books. She spent her school days working for the resistance group and a publishing company in Brighton--beginning the first in a long series of union fights...
Duty Bound. Glenn Brook (Ben Masters) returns from self-imposed exile to stand trial for draft evasion. In court, he requests amnesty on moral grounds. The television audience is asked to act as Brook's jury. CH. 4. 2 p.m. Color...
...page 27) has 1) dismissed the governors of Baluchistan and the North-West Frontier province, both popular leaders of the opposition National Awami Party, 2) sent troops into Baluchistan to put down tribesmen sympathetic to the ousted governor, and 3) touched off a storm of disapproval with a draft constitution that would in effect continue his own rule for another 15 years. To make matters worse, the army operations in Baluchistan were reportedly supervised by Chief of Staff General Tikka Khan, the former martial-law administrator of East Pakistan who earned notoriety as the "butcher of Bengal...
...grave robbers at an Etruscan site north of Rome in 1971 and illegally sold to an expatriate American named Robert E. Hecht Jr. He in turn, so the story went, smuggled the vase out of Italy and sold it to the Met. In 1970 UNESCO adopted a draft prohibiting illicit traffic in art objects. The calyx krater would come under that provision, and both the U.S. and Italy have signed the pact...
Foster, who was bypassed in the regular NFL draft in January, has been sending letters on his own to several NFL teams looking for an offer to try out. "I've written mainly to the teams that have had coaching changes," Foster said, "because that is where there is the most opportunity to catch on. Those are the teams that are looking for new blood...