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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coach Joe Restic, the conservative: "We will start from day one as if we were struggling to enter the picture...
Evans likes to tell the story that a few years ago his office looked over the application forms of minority students listed "academia" as a profession they would like to enter...
South African law recognizes only one plea for draft exemption: religious pacifism. In July a Johannesburg student, David Bruce, 25, took his case to court, becoming the first draftee to argue that he could not enter the army because it upheld an illegal racist system. Bruce was sentenced to six years. Two weeks later, 142 university graduates and students declared that they would refuse to accept induction or, if they had already served their initial two years, to report for further active duty. The End Conscription Campaign, which advocates working in hospitals and performing other types of community service...
...That same evening, Quayle told the MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour that his father James also "certainly could have called people." But perhaps Quayle's most questionable assertion is one that he has clung to from the outset: that a desire to avoid combat played no role in his eagerness to enter the Indiana Guard...
...nation has come to appreciate the fragility of all Presidents. Gone is the Throttlebottom era, when almost any politician, remotely competent and occasionally sober, could be drafted to fill out a ticket. In a vice-presidential candidate, the nation now sees an individual who could be called on to enter the Oval Office at a time of supreme national anguish. That is the most unfortunate thing about the Quayle quagmire -- how little of the controversy touches on the Indiana Senator's abilities to shoulder that potentially terrible burden...