Word: drafted
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...NOTEBOOK: Mark Fusco missed the third period with leg cramps...Scott Fusco is playing on a line with Mark Kumpel of Lowell University and Scott Bjugstad of Minnesota...LaFontaine, a first-round pro draft pick, is headed to the N.Y. Islanders after the Olympics...It was Harvard's second straight game against Behrend--the last was the NCAA championship game...The Olympic captain is Phil Verchota, a veteran of the 1980 squad. At the Boston Garden U.S. Olympic Team 2 3 6--11 Harvard...
Granted, your news article (11/9/83, "Federal Linkage of Aid. Draft Increases Rate of Registration") focuses on how the vast majority of students are responding to U.S. strong-arm tactics. However, you quoted no one who was critical of the Solomon Amendement, except for a Boston Alliance Against Registration and Draft spokesperson, and even these ironic remarks on the amendment's efficacy were rather misleading...
...true to their principles, or compromising in order to conduct their formal education. I have been fortunate and by working as much as full time in my one remaining semester I am just able to get by. If faced with the choice of leaving school or registering for the draft. I cannot say with certainly what I would do. Thus has the government succeeded in blackmailing people into acting against what they know to be right. I do encourage those others who can afford it. So refuse to sign their registration compliance forms (this path is open to women...
Journalists are fond of the saying that they write the first draft of history. But on some 20 occasions in the past four decades, TIME's editors have determined that a historically significant individual merited a journalistic "second draft" to assess his contributions and character in light of of, contemporary events, opinions and scholarship. In this week's cover story, 20 years after John F. Kennedy's death in Dallas, Senior Writer Lance Morrow tries to distinguish between the 35th President's accomplishments and the en during myths. Observes Morrow: "The past inhabits us and defines...
...from his war injuries and back trouble. He backstroked powerfully down the pool, rolled and executed a strong crawl. As he splashed and stretched in the warm water, he talked between gurgles about Berlin. He was going to order a partial call-up of the National Guard, increase the draft, seek money for home fallout shelters. He seemed to gain personal strength as he talked of power and how to exercise it. Before he hobbled off to his bedroom on crutches, which he used when he removed his back brace, he was resolutely beckoning his nation from some far horizon...