Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Because the Panamanians have substantially reduced their cash demands from the U.S., a draft treaty may be initialed this week...
...Left was just starting to harvest its biggest crops of the newly radicalized. Draft cards and American flags went up in smoke. The Spring Mobilization to End the War in Viet Nam brought together hundreds of thousands of protesters in San Francisco and New York. Dow Chemical's recruiters were driven off campus. Ahead for the movement lay Woodstock, Chicago, Kent State, the Days of Rage...
...Meinhof group sprouted from the roots of German student protest against archaic regulations and extreme overcrowding in the universities. But after West Berlin police shot a student demonstrating against a visit by the Shah of Iran, protest graduated to violence. Baader had come to West Berlin to escape the draft, Meinhof to be nearer the "revolution." There, they recruited colleagues who shared some basic zealotries: West Germany's "performance society" induced mental illness in its citizens; the struggle against U.S. involvement in Viet Nam must be waged everywhere; all authority is fascist and hence worthy of destruction...
Barrister Michael Ford, 35, left last year after spending 8 years in Rhodesia. The draft was hurting his practice and as a lawyer he was troubled that captured guerrillas were being tried as terrorists rather than as prisoners of war Unable to start a practice in Britain, he was unemployed for six months; after being refused permission to migrate to New Zealand or Hong Kong, he finally went into business with a friend in Johannesburg Ford predicts that in the future white Rhodesians may have an even harder time relocating than he did. "It follows you like a bad smell...
...shaper of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution; in Moorestown, N.J. After successfully lobbying for the adoption of the Woman Suffrage Amendment-she was thrown into jail in 1917 for leading a parade of bloomer-clad suffragists in front of the White House-Paul in 1923 helped draft a prototype of the current Equal Rights Amendment and spent more than 50 years pressing for its ratification...