Word: drafted
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...ease with which the players apparently fell to cheating may be partially explained by the climate of exploitation that has long pervaded college sports. In particular, Williams, a potential first-round pro draft pick, knows the temptations. A high school star from rural Sorrento, La., he reportedly told prosecutors that after he agreed to attend Tulane, a former assistant coach gave him a shoe box containing $10,000 in cash, and that he had received weekly envelopes from Coach Ned Fowler containing $100 stipends. Such payments, while not criminal, violate N.C.A.A. rules. Fowler and two of his assistants (who were...
...social class that Americans have always preferred to maintain as a kind of dirty half-secret. Viet Nam was, for America, essentially a class war. The children of the poor and the lower middle class tended to do the fighting. The children of the privileged tended to get draft deferments to go to college, or to bribe doctors to concoct and certify a disability for them...
...100th anniversary rolls around? Were the Americans a collection of baby killers, or basically honorable men doing their duty when the nation called? Were the soldiers of the peace movement representatives of a uniquely virtuous generation, the most idealistic in history? (The antiwar protests died away when the draft ended in 1973.) Was the South Vietnamese army corrupt and cowardly? (ARVN units did not desert to the other side, and some 240,000 men gave their lives in the fight...
...history linked to numbers: the Catonsville Nine, who that destroyed draft records in 1968; the Harrisburg Seven, charged in 1971 with plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger; the Plowshares Eight, who attacked nuclear missiles with hammers in 1980. Berrigan, 61, is still an outrider of the Roman Catholic peace movement, which has shifted its protests from Viet Nam to the arms race. Berrigan, a former Josephite priest, was excommunicated after marrying a Sacred Heart nun, Elizabeth McAlister, in 1973; she is serving a three-year prison sentence for vandalizing a B-52 bomber. The couple try to alternate prison terms...
...defendant in the uproarious Chicago Seven conspiracy trial, charged with trying to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. But his pacifism began long before Viet Nam: he was an ambulance driver with the Quakers in the Spanish Civil War, and he went to prison as a draft resister during World War II. He is still at it, planning a demonstration in front of the White House on April 22 to protest Reagan's policy in Central America. Dellinger, 69, also teaches history, politics and writing at Vermont College in Montpelier. One of the lessons...