Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interviews, he has been relatively specific (see box). In Indiana and Nebraska, perhaps fearing a backlash, he emphasized law and order to white audiences?but never failed to mention Negro needs as well. Nor does he shrink from challenging an audience. On campus after campus he has called for draft reform and an end to student deferments. Usually he wins applause. At Omaha's Creighton University, he demanded: "Why should we have a draft system that favors the rich? You should be the last people to accept this." There was stunned silence. For the long run, he wants to abolish...
...issue that set off the demonstrations was a government bill under discussion in the Bundestag that provided for the curtailment of constitutional guarantees during a national emergency. Under the law, the Bundestag would be able to declare a "state of emergency," permitting the government to: 1) draft men over 18 who are eligible for military service into civilian defense units, 2) draft women up to age 55 into "hospital" units, 3) order persons to remain at their jobs, 4) requisition private vehicles, and 5) engage in wiretapping and interception of mail when there is a "justified" suspicion of treason...
...while simultaneously moving toward more liberalization in Rumania's tightly controlled society. Defying Kremlin directives, Rumania has maintained cordial relations with both China and Israel, in Soviet eyes the Middle East aggressor. Recently, Rumania balked at joining fellow Warsaw Pact members in signing the Moscow-Washington nuclear-proliferation draft treaty, arguing that it failed to protect small nations from nuclear blackmail by larger powers...
CLAUSE ONE: This recommendation encountered no serious opposition in the Council. It envisages opening the facilities of the Office for Graduate and Career Plans to any group whose advice bears on the career choices and plans of students, thus including political and draft-counselling associations and volunteer and service organizations in addition to the present range of private employers, graduate schools, and government services...
Counsel for the defense had originally said that the case was an opportunity to test the legality of the war in Vietnam and the nation's draft laws...