Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Almost. The much heralded, long awaited New Pathway program--designed to offer more humane medical training through smaller classes and hands on teaching--will start to start this fall. This year, the applicants will try for the 25 places in the first-ever class, for next fall. A preliminary draft of proposals, approved over the summer, named committees who are now working on faculty recruitment, allocation of educational resources, and curriculum development...
...national interest, therefore, why not radical reform? A truce. Sweep the disclosure forms into the White House shredder. Declare, à la Senator George Aiken, the Battle of Watergate won, withdraw the troops and proclaim a general amnesty. After all, we do it for draft dodgers and deserters after a war. We could even do it the way it is done in banana republics: on the President's birthday...
Expect few takers. A modest version of this idea was broached with a conservative commentator who had gone through the Watergate affair in the White House. "I'll trade you one Ferraro for one Meese and a future draft choice, and then we call off the whole ethics-in-government thing completely...
...make no later than Aug. 20. Oddly, though, Mondale and his aides admit they cannot recall asking for a specific pledge that Zaccaro would make his tax returns public. They knew that would be necessary, even though it is not required by law, and helped Ferraro draft a statement promising that it would be done; everybody seems simply to have assumed that Zaccaro would go along...
...midst of the furor over the exclusion of American reporters from the military operation in Grenada last fall, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger appointed a 14-member panel to draft guidelines for press access to future combat situations. Chaired by retired Army Major General Winant Sidle, the commission consisted of journalists and military public information officers. Last week Weinberger released their report and announced that the proposed guidelines are being put into effect. He also said he will appoint a permanent panel of journalists to assist in planning for news coverage of future military conflicts. Said he: "By forming such...