Word: reinstitutionalize
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Most striking was the consistent intelligence of the commentary by six on-camera reporters, headed by Dan Rather. After the series opened with a bang over Omaha, illustrating the horrors of even a "limited" use of strategic nuclear weapons, Part 2 examined U.S. and Soviet preparations for tactical nuclear war...
On the other hand, a few conservative nostrums do enjoy support among a majority of voters. Reinstitution of the death penalty is favored by 68%. The same percentage want to permit prayer in public schools. Providing federal funds to parochial schools is favored by 58%.
We oppose a return to draft registration, and the functioning draft that would inevitably follow, because the motivation behind it is purely political. Neither American military needs nor the nation's security requires this step; only Jimmy Carter's future seems to demand it. The war 19-and 20-year...
Another reason for reinstitution of the draft is largely political: do we want to have a standing professional army? For example, would we have found out about My Lai or the secret bombings in Cambodia if no unwilling and uncommitted inductees had been in the armed forces at the time...
Kennedy received two of his most enthusiastic ovations from generally receptive crowds when he called the proposed reinstitution of military registration unnecessary symbolism and said "in my energy program there is no room for nuclear power."