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...takes out a loan, marries, registers for the Selective Service, commits a crime or votes [NATION, July 2]. But when it comes to drinking, that responsible adult suddenly becomes a child again. Teen lives can be saved by abolishing mandatory registration with the Selective Service and letting young people enlist at their will, or by having mandatory registration at 21. Anthony W. Dallmier Olney...
Perle ridiculed the swap scheme, in part because it came from "the old SALT gang." Burt tried to enlist the support of the Chiefs. On a bright spring day in 1982, Perle was coming down the escalator at the entrance of the Pentagon when he spotted Burt just ahead of him. Perle hailed him and asked what he had been doing...
...private 45-minute session with Reagan in the Oval Office, De la Madrid reiterated his belief that the problems of Central America should be dealt with not by military means but through diplomacy. He tried to enlist greater U.S. support for the diplomatic Contadora process, in which Mexico is a leading player (see box). "They agreed that the search for peace was the primary objective," a senior official explained after the meeting. In others words, there was little agreement on substance...
...women of talent. Although freedom to express individual ideas' and viewpoints is essential, respect for others is a fundamental principle on which the College operates and which we are committed to preserve. I urge students who experience difficulties of any nature on account of their sex to enlist the help of officers of the College, such as Senior Tutors and Senior Advisers. Dean Marlyn McGrath Lewis and I both welcome opportunities to hear students' general concerns about the coeducational environment
...when war broke out, White was typically uncertain of what he wanted. He didn't know whether to enlist or to go to Cornell and wait for the draft. In the event, he chose Cornell, working as a Farm Cadet the summer before he left to satisfy his feelings of patriotism...