Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sanders said yesterday his job will not differ much from that of John Killilea, the man he is replacing. "I'll be scouting the opponents and scouting for talent in the draft, among other things," he said...
...small part of the article is of deep concern to me, however. It perpetuates the myth about the cost of the volunteer force. In fact, the active-duty military personnel share of the Defense Department budget has gone down from 31% to 27% since the end of the draft. Retirement, civilian personnel costs and other nonvolunteer force-related costs have gone up, but these increases are not tied to the end of the draft...
Both Vance and Panama's Foreign Minister, Nicolás Gonáalez Revilla, agreed that significant progress has been made in the talks between their nations. Vance indicated that a draft treaty could be ready by summer's end, although the Panamanian warned that "negotiations have not been easy and will not be until the last moment." Both sides have agreed in principle that Panama will take full control of the Zone in the year 2000 and that shipping of all nations will be guaranteed passage through the ca nal. Progress has also been made...
Martz, the Chicago Cubs' first pick in the 1977 draft, picked up his fourteenth win days later in a 5-4 squeaker over Southern Illinois. Jim Lewis, the Gamecocks' number two hurler, was another story. Snubbed in the major league draft, Lewis took out his frustrations on Cal State, going the distance in winning...
...just this refusal to address the moral issues involved in the tragedy of Vietnam that makes the Carter pardon unacceptable. An unconditional, universal amnesty for all Vietnamera draft resisters is the only acceptable solution. By failing to admit that the government's Vietnam policy was horribly wrong and that those who opposed that immoral policy in the only way they could were right, the pardon fails to serve the needs of those who were the victims and in many ways the greatest heroes of that time...