Word: drafted
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...founded, it called for Palestine to be divided into two states, one Jewish, one Arab. By accepting the resolution, albeit 41 years after it was initially offered, the P.L.O. for the first time would be acknowledging Israel's legal right to statehood. As one of the P.L.O.'s draft proposals puts it, "The Palestinian people do not desire the annihilation of the state of Israel. Rather, they wish to live peacefully as its neighbor...
...dramatic confrontations or full-orchestra effects. Instead, Powers works through a series of small, sharply observed moments. Joe gradually opens up to his curate, forging a paternal relationship that is a form of love. But as his emotions soften, his principles harden. Implicitly, he encourages an antiwar draft dodger, the son of a jingoistic local columnist. "I have to follow my conscience, informed or not, and you do," Joe tells the boy. "That, despite all the evidence to the contrary, is the mind of the Church...
Bush. What's the difference? If the question is asked publicly, impugning the man's integrity, there's no difference at all. There was all this running around, yelling "Draft dodger!" and throwing names against the person. I don't happen to think that's fair. And that's a subjective opinion from George Bush...
...that time, less than a year after the Tet offensive, Americans were shocked by the stories and televised images of an increasingly bloody and, to many, pointless war in Southeast Asia. In university dorms and dining halls around the country, students endlessly discussed their overarching obsession: the draft and how to avoid it. "The stress was ungodly, enormous," says Wheeler. "Viet Nam meant death." It was in this highly charged atmosphere that J. Danforth Quayle, DePauw University class of '69, enlisted in the National Guard...
...most American men now over the age of 33, the draft was as much a part of growing up as getting a driver's license. Congress had reinstituted military conscription in 1940, requiring men to register when they turned 18. The unfortunate were generally drafted at 19, but a prospect remained eligible for induction until 26. The law exempted men with medical problems, as well as conscientious objectors, ministers and some in essential occupations. A key provision provided deferment for students. Yet to the horror of college students who had hoped to avoid going to Viet Nam by earning advanced...