Word: extended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...headquarters is at Hyde Park, the first of the great presidential libraries, where more than 150 separate collections of New Deal documents and memoirs are measured not in pages but in linear feet. (One linear foot represents approximately 2,000 pages, and Roosevelt's presidential papers alone extend to 2,076 linear feet...
What a display of twisted legal logic by Federal Judge Marion Callister [Jan. 4]: on the one hand he rules "that states have the constitutional right to change their minds," while, on the other hand, Congress has no constitutional right to its decision to extend the original deadline for passage...
...message that former President Carter sought to convey when he ratified the Selective Service Act shortly after Russia invaded Afghanistan. The expressed purpose of registration was to demonstrate that we were over the "Vietnam Syndrome" and prepared to defend our national interests. Our current president found the need to extend registration because he has "discovered" that the time saved in the event of an actual draft is much greater than the five to seven days which the Selective Service has advertised since the reactivation of registration. Conveniently, the extension coincides with the government's concern over Poland...
CONTRARY TO Reagan administration rhetoric, the President's decision to extend draft registration has taken the nation one step closer to peacetime conscription. The signup that was once termed immoral is now moral; why not the same for the draft itself? Reagan has said that only "the most severe national emergency" would force him to revive conscription. But does that mean a shooting war, or will one of those mysterious "threats to national security" do the trick? Clearly, it's a matter of when the political pressure in favor of a draft overwhelms the President's dubious enthusiasm...
Reversing a stand he took repeatedly as a candidate in 1980, President Reagan last week decided to extend the draft registration program. Reagan said he based his decision on the recommendation of a special Pentagon manpower commission and revised statistics showing that registration would save six weeks during mobilization. White House officials vigorously denied that the reversal had anything to do with events in Poland, even though some government officials said that Poland was an important consideration. Presidential counselor Edwin Meese III, who made the draft registration announcement for Reagan, said the extension will not result in an immediate prosecution...