Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Along with Lou Reed and Blondie and eventually The Sex Pistols and Elvis Costello--plus a whole new wave of bands from The Ramones to The Clash--Patti Smith brought home a new message, and it had nothing to do with war or the draft...
Last week was typical. As it began, there were encouraging signs that the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. might approve a SALT II draft treaty within a few days. The White House had scheduled a background briefing for the press, and it was known that Jimmy Carter was planning to make SALT the centerpiece of his speech at the American Newspaper Publishers Association conference in Manhattan. There was even some speculation that he would use this forum to announce the conclusion of the talks...
...evidence against Negri was locked behind judicial secrecy, but officials mentioned that a draft of instructions to Brigatisti that was found in Milan, as well as notes about the Moro operation discovered in a Rome hideaway, was thought to be in Negri's handwriting. Also, experts tentatively identified Negri's voice in the tape of a kidnaper's phone call to Moro's wife. Negri has denied any operational connection between Autonomia Operaia and the Red Brigades, and any involvement in the kidnaping...
...rule, scouts do not say much to reporters, but what they have said this year indicates that getting Brownie is not exactly considered crucial to the lives of their respective franchises. Unlike teammate Stenhouse, Brown will probably not go in the top round or two of the June 5 draft...
Richard C. Hunter, director of the Department of Defense's manpower office, said yesterday support in Congress for registration is coming from a group of Congressmen "who were the hawks in Vietnam, didn't want to provide amnesty, and didn't want to end the draft in the first place...