Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...General Evren refuses to set a timetable for any return to civilian rule, although he has convinced most Turks that the junta does intend to step down voluntarily at some point. He has promised to set up a special committee to draft a new constitution. Clearly, however, the junta intends to finish its self-appointed task-administering strong military medicine-before handing over power to the politicians, even those of its own choosing. Said Evren at a meeting of the Journalists' Association of Turkey last week: "Many axes are being kept under cover, waiting in ambush, ready to pounce...
...Supreme Court announced yesterday that it will review a sexual discrimination suit filed against the Selective Service System (SSS) for its policy of registering only men for the draft...
Calling the failure to register women "a totally irrational distinction," Donald Weinberg, the Philadelphia attorney who will present the case against the SSS before the Supreme Court, yesterday said that his ultimate aim is not to adjust the program, but to "see that there is no registration, no draft...
However, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which has acted as Weinberg's associate counsel during the case, "remains optimistic," according to David Landau '72, an ACLU attorney and associate director of the Committee Against Registration and the Draft...
...remainder of the day is spent on paper work and planning for tomorrow. In the afternoon Hartman goes over the draft of Wednesday's script, which has been prepared by the show's seven writers. He suggests changes and emphasizes points he would like to make. He is driven home again at 5:30, but telephone conversations with writers continue until after 8. At 9:30 he finally turns off the light, so that he will be rested when the alarm rings...