Word: drafting
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...Canada'a blind people (I bet Canadian sales of dark glasses and canes triple). Some judge. As a friend of mine says, he showed a little "sympathy for the junkie." It's comforting to know that Canada is now the place to go not only to dodge the draft, but to do serious drugs...
Whatever its failings as explanation, the film is interesting as description. Interspersed among the shots of Allen talking to the camera, or scribbling over and over on a first draft of some comedy routine, we see scenes of Midwood High School, which he attended for three uneventful years, and the playground at Avenue L and East 17th Street where he spent much time as a growing boy. Trying to give us a feel for his background, the camera sweeps past the Orthodox Jews buying fruit at the numerous stands on Avenue J, past the movie house and the pizzerias...
...Pentagon, nearly 11% of the 74,888 people who joined the Marines in the past two years have been discharged for reasons, ranging from medical disabilities to drug abuse, that should have disqualified them at the time of their enlistment. Congress could solve the problem by bringing back the draft, but this would be highly unpopular and is unlikely...
Both the Israelis and Egyptians brought along draft treaties. TIME has learned that the U.S. also has a formal proposal-an eight-page document, spelling out in detail the main issues to be negotiated. The chief areas of discussion: 1) normalization of relations between Israel and Egypt, including the opening of borders, exchange of ambassadors, freedom of navigation through the Suez Canal, tourism and cultural and journalistic exchanges; 2) a timetable for Israeli withdrawals from the Sinai, including the turnover of Israeli settlements and airfields in the Sinai to the Egyptians, and the establishment of demilitarized zones and specified areas...
That does not mean that they go un-buffeted, especially when caught in a political whirlwind like the Bakke case, brought by Allan Bakke, applicant to a California medical school who successfully argued he had been excluded in favor of less qualified blacks. In an early draft of a brief stating the Government's position on that "reverse discrimination" case, McCree came down in favor of affirmative action, but explicitly against quotas. After loud protests from black leaders and some Cabinet officers, including HEW Secretary Joseph Califano, McCree and Assistant U.S. Attorney General Drew Days, who is also black...