Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...victory, reports TIME Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil, came only after some important private maneuvering by Jim Wright. Although he personally favored keeping the embargo against Turkey, he felt that as Democratic leader he must back the Administration's pro-Turkey policy. First he tried to draft a compromise acceptable to Brademas and others who favored Greece rather than Turkey. Brademas agreed to a one year suspension of the embargo if Turkey would take positive steps to end the Cyprus stalemate. The President rejected that, however, arguing that it "would be like putting the Turks on parole. It would offend...
...Premier's troubles began when he agreed to a request by the ultra-Orthodox Agudat Israel Party to amend Israel's conscription laws, thereby making it easier for Orthodox Jewish women to gain exemption from the draft. Orthodox rabbis believe that women should not serve in the armed forces, since they interpret the prohibition against men's clothing to include the khaki trousers and the UZI submachine guns issued to Israel's female conscripts. The law now requires that women serve for two years and men for three, beginning...
Passage of the new law, its opponents argued, would invite draft dodging on a mass scale by nonreligious women. This would seriously impair the efficiency of the Israeli armed forces, which rely on women to run many basic administrative and support services. Under present law, Orthodox women are exempt from military service only if they can pass an oral examination on their religious beliefs conducted by a board that includes an army rabbi and a representative of the general staff manpower department. Rabbis objected to this system because some genuinely religious girls fail the exam simply because they are none...
According to the new legislation, any 18-year-old girl claiming religious scruples would be exempt "without further examination by any board." In the past year the Defense Ministry has already begun operating in the spirit of the proposed law. Result: a 9% rise in exemptions for draft-age women. A report by the Defense Ministry submitted to the Knesset this month predicted that 30% of the 25,283 women due to be drafted this year will claim religious exemptions if the unamended bill passes...
...Knesset will almost certainly pass the compromise bill this week. Meanwhile, 20,000 nonreligious high school girls who face conscription after graduation demonstrated in Tel Aviv last week to protest making it easy for draft dodgers. Teen-agers throughout the country circulated petitions demanding equality in the conscription system and urging that religious girls be required to do some useful nonmilitary service for the nation. Unexpected support for the opposition came from the Premier's wife, Aliza Begin, whose two daughters, Hasya, 32, and Leah, 30, served in the Israel Defense Forces. "Why should my daughter be drafted...