Word: drafted
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...Geneva, American and Soviet arms negotiators brought forth draft proposals for eliminating the medium-range missiles and agreed to continue talks on those weapons, which were due to adjourn last week. Then Soviet negotiators returned to Moscow for consultations, and Max Kampelman, the chief American negotiator, flew off to Brussels to brief NATO allies before continuing on to Washington to confer with President Reagan. At week's end Reagan announced that "to maintain the momentum" generated in Geneva, Secretary of State George Shultz would fly to Moscow in mid-April to confer with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze...
That unit is so talented that defenseman Chris Biotti, a first-round professional draft pick in 1985, has been moved to offense...
...exhibition, formally ushered in earlier this week with a black-tie reception, includes manuscripts, proofsheets, and drawings dating from notes Updike wrote in 1952 while at Harvard to a draft of his most recent novel, "Roger's Version," finished two years...
Arne Duncan is not sure what the future will bring for him. He is interested in the possibility of pursuing basketball for a few years--most likely in Europe, although nothing is definite. A late-round pick in the NBA draft is not out of the question, either...
McFarlane pointed more strongly than before to an organized attempt last November to minimize or even cover up the President's role in the 1985 Israeli arms sales. McFarlane had previously admitted helping draft a chronology that was, in his word, "disingenuous." This time he apparently went further: he confessed to writing a memo last Nov. 18, at the request of his successor, John Poindexter, that was deliberately phrased to "blur" Reagan's role. The memo outlined a way in which the President could plausibly deny having approved the Israeli shipments. If his later insistence that Reagan had given that...