Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eight-year veteran of Ohio prisons, I read your special section with interest and skepticism. Prisons are for punishment: to give society the retribution it is due. But punishment should be handed out fairly. When an inmate sees police, judges and politicians, the same people who draft and enforce laws, receiving wrist slaps for conduct that landed him in the slammer for years, the lesson of sure and swift punishment is lost...
...north Louisiana and helped Willie Davis get to the N.F.L. Davis came back and helped Ernie Ladd and Buck Buchanan. Rosey Taylor helped Willie Brown. Charlie Joiner helped Sammie White. Now White has been coming back to help a receiver named Trumaine Johnson, who should be a No. 1 draft choice next year and the 206th Grambling Tiger to play professional football...
POLITICAL RALLIES AT HARVARD have run the gamut from the sublime to the ridiculous. Three winters ago, for example, a crowd 1000-strong braved the bitter cold to protest President Carter's reinstatement of draft registration. But, in the midst of a freak snow storm last spring, only about 100 people decried the Reagan Administration's cuts in financial aid to students...
Monday's demonstration in support of Benjamin H. Sasway, the Humboldt State College student sentenced to a prison term because he refused to register for the draft, falls somewhere in between. Despite a last minute relocation to a sight between the Science Center and Mem Hall, the rally still managed to draw about 300 people. But the event was marred by communication difficulties with the University and organizational problems that left people thinking about what could have been...
...rally itself suffered from too many speakers pontificating on too wide a variety of problems. The issue at hand was draft registration. Yet people managed to address--albeit eloquently--problems like. South Africa, Central America, and Lebanon. In trying to strengthen the argument against draft registration by evoking tenuous links to other dilemmas, speakers diluted the main gist of the protest...