Word: drafted
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While rejecting quotas, the Administration brief was expected to support more nebulous "goals" to achieve racial balance. Drawing a fine line, Justice lawyers have argued that race can be a consideration in the selection of applicants but must not be the only one. Said one draft of the brief, which was being revised right down to the wire: "We doubt that it is ever proper to use race to close any portion of the class for competition by members of all races. It is one thing to give a minority applicant the sort of consideration that will assist...
...Defense Department decides the new helmet is worth close to $50 v. $15 for the Ml, the old pot could soon go the way of Willie and Joe and the draft...
Before making the statement public, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Philip Habib summoned Israeli Ambassador Simcha Dinitz and handed him a draft. Dinitz read in stony silence. "The Palestinians must be involved in the peacemaking process," the document said. "Their representatives will have to be at Geneva for the Palestinian question to be solved." The statement went on to conclude that "all of the participants in the peace conference should adhere to the terms" of United Nations Resolutions 242 and 338, which call for secure borders for all Middle East states...
Alice's Restaurant. Arther Penn does a nice job of turning Arlo Guthrie's half-hour long ballad, about hanging out in western Massachusetts and ingeniously resisting the draft, into a loose, rambling, amiable film. The first half works particularly well. The second half drags on a bit too long and is broken by some incongrously depressing sequences, but the movie still remains one of the best film portraits of what life was like for the draft-board-baiting bohemian back-packers...
Tureen's plan was leaked to the public and part of the resulting furor stemmed from the fact that neither Gay Head nor the tribal council ever had fishing rights in Chilmark. Although Tureen and all members of the tribal council insist that the document was only a draft, to be used as a basis for discussion during negotiations between the taxpayers association and the tribal council, its release angered factions on both sides. Wenonah Silva, tribal council president, charged that the draft's release was an attempt at sabotaging the negotiations by disgruntled tribal council members. Certainly the public...