Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young conscripts killed in action against the U.S.-backed contras. And the cortege, passing beneath flowering cassia trees, headed not for the military cemetery but for an overgrown burial ground on the banks of a rubbish-strewn gully. "He hadn't wanted to go, and dodged the draft for months before he was caught," said Jose Manuel Alvares, a family friend. "This is the family's way of protesting his call...
...down to the hard core of its constituency and still losing friends. "The Sandinistas came to power with the support of 80% to 90% of the population," says a Nicaraguan intellectual who was once a fervent believer. "Now they would have to scrape to come up with 40%." The draft and 1500% inflation are eroding the bedrock of support in poor neighborhoods like Villa Cuba. "They have taken all our rights, even the right to toilet paper," says a 20-year-old draft dodger, referring to frequent shortages of basic commodities. "People are tired of their empty slogans and want...
...following is the text of a draft agreement approved by Dean of the Kennedy School Graham T. Allison '62. It was sent to the Dickinsons and their lawyer on Monday...
...child prodigy began her literary career at the age of five, when she composed her first poem. By the age of eight, she had completed her first collection of poems, called "First Draft." The recently published book, which has been critically acclaimed in international literary circles, is written in Russian and has been translated into English, French and Italian...
Such traditionalists went to work after the synod broke into small discussion groups. Caution was urged by Third World bishops as well as by lay advisers, whose selection had been screened by the Vatican. A first draft of the propositions for the Pope stated that women should be admitted to all nonordained ministries. That would include authorizing altar girls (common at Masses in the U.S., despite Vatican disapproval). The draft also urged a study of allowing women to become deacons. After some behind-the-scenes lobbying, the final version mentioned none of those points. Archbishop Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee...