Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strategist for George McGovern in 1972, will be the campaign's delegate hunter, trying to fill the Kennedy slates. Carl Wagner, 34, who was Kirk's successor on Kennedy's Senate staff, will fly around the country, setting up campaign committees. Only a few of the draft-Kennedy volunteers will be taken on. In Kennedy's view, goodwilled, enthusiastic amateurs are fine for leafleting and doorbell ringing, but the running of campaigns must be left to professionals...
Meantime, the SALT II draft that was signed by Carter and Brezhnev last June in Vienna was slowly wending its way through the Senate's complex ratification machinery. The Foreign Relations Committee's nine Democrats and six Republicans last week continued ''marking up''-going over line by line-the proposed resolution of ratification. During the ''mark-up,'' amendments can be introduced and voted upon by committee members. Among the most notable offered last week were several by Minority Leader Howard Baker that dealt with the Soviet monopoly on large-scale...
...unembellished dumb broad, and about halfway through the show transforms her into a voice of the common people, instructing the MPs on their duties, telling them, "The people don't care about what you do on your own time--it's only the newspapers," and eventually writing the draft of the committee report...
Both Bok and Wolfman agree that as the 1985 renewal date for the 1977 agreement draws closer, the Committee will have to sit down and, in Bok's words, "figure out what's going on." Bok explains that the Committee originally designed to draft the 1977 agreement, is not expected "to meet regularly with a regular agenda. We're not anxious to proliferate bureaucracies," he adds. If the Joint Policy Committee "continues to exist" on paper, it is ready to be called to the board room if and when the occasion arises. "You can never tell when something will call...
...period during which I was going to Harvard was a lot less pressurized on a personal level than the few years before" because his was one of the first classes that did not have to "face the draft if we dropped out," Mackey adds...