Word: drafted
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...Reagan article was ghostwritten, no one at the White House is saying so. Two staff members of the Office of Policy Development did the research and first draft. But, the White House says, Reagan reviewed the material and polished it. The nonprofit Human Life Review, which has a circulation of some 10,000, did not pay the President, nor, according to Editor J.P. McFadden, was Reagan edited. McFadden suggested last summer to presidential aides that Reagan contribute an essay, and the manuscript arrived in the magazine's New York office only five weeks...
...scientists' petition was drafted by Astronomer Carl Sagan and Richard Garwin, military expert at IBM's Watson Research Center, even before Reagan's star wars speech in March, which called for accelerated research on defensive weapons, including those that could be based in space. After the President's address, more than a dozen people joined in the appeal. Among them: Hans Bethe and Isidor Rabi, winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics; Retired Admiral Noel Gayler, who was director of the National Security Agency from 1969 to 1972; Lee DuBridge, physicist and president emeritus...
Kirk Scott, coordinator of Yale's Campaign against Militarism and the Draft, agrees: "It's hard to meet with him unless you're the president of the YCC," he says, adding that it took him two months to schedule an appointment with Giamatti...
members of the study group noted that their final draft includes changes suggested by scholars they added to review the draft manuscripts in January. But the authors declined to comment on specific changes and suggestions...
Harvard, as a major force in the community, has in the past set examples for others to follow. The administration has in the past opposed the restriction on financial aid to students not registered for the draft as well as partial divestiture from companies doing business in South Africa...