Word: drafted
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Alienation and fear are a miniscule price to pay for increased dialogue and enlightenment about U.S. policy in Central America. Our original plan had been to follow up on interest generated by the draft cards with a teach-in Friday afternoon. Educational forums such as teach-ins are consistent with COCA's objective of educating the Harvard community...
...about the COCA memo I received last week was the attitude it conveyed and, more particularly, the scare tactics it employed to conjure up images of another Vietnam War. Yet these scare tactics seemed woefully misguided--after all, Vietnam was a time when thousands of elitist students burned their draft cards and graciously let the poor and minorities do the fighting for them...
...essence, the message I got from the fake draft notice was that we should be terrified, not because the ongoing civil war in El Salvador represents a tremendous human tragedy, but because we Harvard students might somehow be drafted to fight in some highly improbable U.S. war in the region...
Never mind the fact that, regrettably for fairness' sake at least, the draft does not now exist and that our troops for any war would predominantly come from poor and minority backgrounds...
...Unhappily denied such attentions, The People is a rough draft of the novel it might have become. The year is 1870, and Yozip Bloom, a Russian immigrant and itinerant Jewish peddler, roams the Pacific Northwest. He is kidnaped by an Indian tribe that calls itself the People. For reasons not entirely clear, Yozip has been singled out as the spokesman, Yiddish-inflected English and all, who will defend the rights of the People against the perfidious, treaty- breaking whites...