Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most protracted and politically sensitive diplomatic disputes in American history is rapidly reaching a turning point. U.S. and Panamanian negotiators in Washington hope to initial the draft of the first major agreements on the Canal Zone since the U.S. extracted jurisdiction over the area in a treaty forced upon the fledgling Republic of Panama in 1903. Very soon, perhaps within the next two weeks, a new deal can be struck-if one final, formidable obstacle can be overcome. That issue is how much money the U.S. should pay Panama before relinquishing the last remnants of control over the canal...
...door openers. The 1964 student protests at Berkeley sparked passions on campuses across the country. Detroit and Newark symbolized black rage, but Watts was the first ghetto to burn. Three years before Wounded Knee fell under siege, Indian militants fought for possession of Alcatraz. Almost every state had its draft riot, hippie commune and Black Panther spokesman-but the phenomenon that each represented surfaced first in California...
...country's largest party, the Social Democrats, has promised to draft an "initiative" on banking control to be placed before Swiss voters within three years. Among the possible proposals: putting government representatives on bank boards of directors and making tax evasion a criminal offense, which would remove a big attraction for tax cheaters. There is no guarantee that the Social Democrats' ideas will become law, but the debate means that the bankers -and their customers around the world -will be able to take far less for granted in Switzerland than ever before...
That somewhat self-indulgent note is the spirit of the season. The public themes that intrude themselves have none of the hard, brutal edge so evident when draft resisters were burning flags and Middle Americans slapped LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT stickers on their bumpers. Some observers have disconsolately described the decade as the "fragmented '70s." That may mean only that the period, unlike the '60s, lacks a single theme or story?no continuing drama for Americans like Viet Nam. Journalists addicted to a diet of disaster find the present moment disconcerting. One Washington journalist was even moved to complain...
...true brew fancier, amber waves of grain mean only one thing: the chief ingredient of beer. Hard-bitten guzzlers find that nothing quenches as happily as the kind that comes straight from the barrel. It can be found on draft, at taverns-the places Patrick Henry called "cradles of liberty." So they still are, only now the liberty is freedom of choice. There, across the stretches of mahogany are pump handles gleaming with the promise of alchemy. Somewhere at the other end of the pipe, malt, hops and yeast have been transformed into a series of heady potions...