Word: drafted
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Several members of the Government Department said yesterday a Huntington appointment would be controversial in part because he articulated the "forced-draft urbanization" thesis that the Pentagon used to justify bombing the South Vietnamese countryside in the late...
...Woodrow Wilson's esteemed first Inaugural Address. Carter asked his top appointees and various staffers, as well as Mondale, for suggestions. Then, working in his study in Plains, he jotted his ideas on small pieces of paper, arranging them in speech sequence. Speechwriter Patrick Anderson provided a working draft, which Carter revised and polished, reading the results into a tape recorder to master his delivery. When he presents the speech this Thursday, a presidency that seemed to materialize out of nowhere will begin its unpredictable journey into an uncertain future...
Gloria Emerson grabs hold like the Ancient Mariner. With an obsessed eye, she recalls the war that Americans lost, now receding in the collective memory -old glossaries of "hooches," "lurps." "fraggings" and "Numbah Ten." or, at home, the Armies of the Night, sheep's blood spilled on draft records, Veterans Against the War hurling their medals at the Capitol...
...filled with grotesqueries, wild ricochets of irony. Emerson recalls the case of a poetic 22-year-old private whose job it was to compose elaborate-and totally fictitious-battle citations for senior officers who wished to leave Viet Nam with a Silver Star. The secretary of a local draft board in Gordonsville. Tenn. tells Emerson: "Five died [from here], but they were all volunteers, none of them draftees. Isn't that marvelous?" Billy Graham remarked: "A thousand people are killed every week on American highways, and half of these are attributed to alcohol. Where are the demonstrations against alcohol...
...dowry -the practice of bestowing a property settlement on a daughter as an inducement to marriage. Now, however, Greece's time-honored system of mandatory dowries is under attack. Legislative pressure for its abolition comes chiefly from the seven women in Greece's 300-member Parliament. A draft law doing away with dowries has been written-but Parliament is less than anxious to consider it. Predictably, it is the male lawmakers who most object to allowing women more latitude in governing their own affairs...