Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...JANUARY 21, the day following his inauguration, President Jimmy Carter fulfilled one of his major campaign promises by issuing a blanket pardon to all those who had peacefully refused to register for the draft or be inducted into the armed services during the Vietnam War. By granting the pardon Carter hoped to bring America's tragic Vietnam experience to an end. Unfortunately, the pardon, while a step in the right direction, does not go nearly far enough...
...Leader John Rhodes warned that their honeymoon with the new Administration might be short. Said he: "Carter's thrown so many dead cats around that we've got to start picking up a few of them." Republicans are especially upset with Carter for pardoning Viet Nam-era draft evaders and promising to cut the defense budget...
...headlines, the Administration said that neither Vance nor Carter had known that it was coming-but that it had their approval nonetheless and was in the spirit of the new Administration's position on human rights. The message that the State Department released apparently came from a draft paper that had been prepared by the European section but had not yet reached Vance's desk for his consideration...
...been seeking some broader formula for a long-term ceiling on strategic weapons. At the Brezhnev-Ford summit at Vladivostok in November 1974, the two leaders agreed that a SALT II accord should limit each superpower to 2,400 strategic nuclear delivery vehicles-including missiles and bombers. A final draft of the SALT II treaty seemed imminent, but complications arose. Many American advocates of arms control pointed out that the Vladivostok ceilings were so high as to contribute almost nothing toward reducing existing nuclear arsenals. A more serious obstacle was the right-wing challenge that Ford faced during the G.O.P...
...Viet Nam. Which was understandable enough. Said he: "Viet Nam has been the dominant factor of American life for the past 15 years. It would be a strange class that wouldn't bring up the subject." The students applauded when McGovern hailed President Carter's pardon of draft evaders, then wondered aloud whether "the men who conducted the war in Viet Nam may be the ones in need of a pardon...