Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disabled Viet Nam veteran who lost the use of both ankles in Viet Nam, I would like to express my opinion of draft evaders and deserters [Jan. 17]. Let bygones be bygones...
...forgiven everyone who got into trouble for resisting the war. They argued, correctly, that the deserters who were still ostracized were mainly working-class members of minority groups, while the pardoned evaders were usually middle-class whites. Carter's action "just applies to university kids who dodged the draft," complained Tom Nagel, an accused deserter who now lives in France...
...Goldwater and Strom Thurmond were indeed up in arms over the nomination; their doubts had been fed by the intelligence community, which lobbied against Sorensen. But some liberal Democrats were scarcely less vehement in their opposition. One source of doubt was the fact that Sorensen had registered for the draft as a conscientious objector. Led by Hawaii's Inouye, a much-decorated World War II veteran who lost his right arm in combat, the Senators wondered whether Sorensen would be able to approve agency operations that might endanger life. Sorensen also is a fierce Kennedy loyalist who still wears...
Neither the Pope nor the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. F. Donald Coggan, endorsed the agreement; they simply approved its publication for discussion. Not until the 1980s is the commission expected to draft its final proposal for ending the split, which began 4% centuries ago when King Henry VIII rejected the authority of Pope Clement VII so that an autonomous Church of England would grant an annulment of his first marriage to Catherine of Aragon...
...again it was Italy's steadily advancing Communist Party that was cast in a key role. The party had previously been opposed to easy abortion, believing that it should be regulated for the collective welfare and not left to "individualistic" prerogative. During a committee hearing on an earlier draft bill before the election last year, the Communists had voted with the Christian Democrats in favor of giving doctors, rather than women, the last word on abortion...