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...nonmilitary opportunities," to be required of young men and women for a period of 12 to 18 months. Achieving the military force called for by many experts will require some form of compulsory service by the early 1990s, Hart believes, but the nation will not tolerate an old-style draft with its inevitable inequities...
...cowboy boots and farm hats that say HORIZON SEEDS. In an era when most coaches feel obliged to soothe the players' psyches, Ryan is a link to the past. He took one wide look at "the Refrigerator" last summer and declared the Clemson first rounder to be "a wasted draft choice." But this was not an unusual introduction for a Bear rookie. "That's because there ain't one of them that knows what the hell he's doing," Ryan says...
...draft choice ticketed this season for Class A ball, Brian, 18, manned second base, Hal's original position. Almost no one remembers McRae, 39, the definitive designated hitter, ever having any place in the field, although he was once a gloveman nimble enough to be nicknamed for his favorite brand: Wilson. Old Cincinnati Reds still call him that. Until splintering a leg in the '60s sliding into home, he was slated to be a primary cog in the Big Red Machine but ended up a legendary figure only among the other players...
...brought me to this rarest one." He had to be in the American League; there had to be a DH rule; and he probably had to be with Kansas City. "Then I had to have a son, and he had to have the talent, and the Royals had to draft...
Neither that reluctance nor the fact that lacocca, who most recently described himself as a Republican, has stopped supporters from trying to draft him as the Democratic presidential candidate in 1988. Several Washington political consultants have joined a few Michigan Democrats to form the Draft Lee lacocca Committee Inc. They plan to raise $50,000 during the next two months to investigate the legal barriers to a genuine draft of lacocca. Their cause is complicated by a tradition that says drafts rarely succeed and by election laws in some states that work against getting undeclared and unwilling candidates...