Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...special Faculty meeting next Tuesday will debate proposals to endorse the October 15 Vietnam moratorium and petition Congress for repeal of the draft...
...same time, George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, said he would move at the special meeting that the Faculty petition Congress for repeal of the draft. His arguments for the anti-draft petition would be on academic grounds, Wald said...
...does little to limit the American war effort. After announcing a cut-back in draft calls for the rest of the year, Administration officials admitted that 1969's call of 290,400 will lag only 5,600 behind last year's. A Washington study group, the National Council to Repeal the Draft suggests that the Administration may have inflated the summer calls to compensate for the fall cut-back...
...enacting a law permitting émigrés living in the U.S. to vote by mail; that measure ensured the support of the many San Marinese who had grown relatively prosperous-and thus relatively conservative -on American soil.* Three years ago, however, a Communist coalition managed to repeal the law. With the opposition stripped of its U.S. mail-order vote, the Communists were hopeful of regaining the power they had enjoyed for twelve years after World...
Nixon's cautious conduct of the surtax fight paid off early in the week, when the House on a 210-to-205 vote approved the Administration's bill to continue the levy for a year and repeal the 7% business investment tax credit. The vote appeared closer than the issue actually was; G.O.P. leaders had been assured by many members that their votes were Nixon's if the measure actually faced defeat on the floor. Minority Whip Leslie Arends marched Republicans in from the cloakroom by ones and twos until he had enough votes...