Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kissinger flew back to the U.S. to present a draft of the proposed settlement to Nixon. Technical teams from both sides remained in Paris to work on the "protocols," the detailed arrangements for carrying out the general principles. Before leaving Paris, Kissinger told Tho that if Nixon approved of the draft there would be a clear military signal from...
Just as Hammer was about to leave, Dzherman Gvishiani, a top Soviet science official, produced an untranslated draft of a pact that he suggested Hammer take back to the U.S. to study. Instead, Hammer flipped through it for 30 seconds and changed just one word, scratching out "draft" and substituting "agreement." Then he signed it and handed it back to Gvishiani. When the Russian began to hem and haw, Hammer asked in mock amazement how the Soviet official could possibly object to signing his own draft. After those theatrics, the agreement was an anticlimax: it is a nebulous "technical cooperation...
...need the gas, or else we just face having more brownouts." But within the Nixon Administration, officials are debating whether the U.S. really does need Soviet gas or can make do with fuel from other sources. James Akins, a White House consultant who is helping to draft President Nixon's message on energy policy, says that the Administration is considering guaranteeing loans to finance two Soviet gas deals, but he adds that Occidental is not involved in either...
Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird's announcement Saturday of an immediate halt in the draft means an end to induction pressure for Harvard students without student deforments, an OGCP draft counselor said yesterday...
...home. Therefore it seems very likely that the next few months will see the Administration try to settle in for the long haul in Vietnam by smoothing out the rough edges of the war and trying to make it a little easier for the American public to accept. The draft can be "reformed" to take the pressure off troublesome college students. In time the policy of phased reductions might actually reduce the troop commitment in Vietnam to 200,000 men or even fewer. The military command in Vietnam may be able to substitute even heavier air strikes for the costly...