Word: senatore
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One frequent criticism of the present Selective Service System is the freedom it allows the nation's 4,000 local draft boards. A federally controlled lottery system would change this, and the President has called for a report on the draft boards to be delivered in December. Perhaps, as...
Nixon's draft reform bill is not new. In 1967, Lyndon Johnson submitted an identical proposal and similar changes have been called for by Senator Edward Kennedy. The Kennedy version, however, contains a triggering device that would end college deferments in time of war. Mindful of Viet Nam, Kennedy...
"We have learned a lot," said Minnesota Democratic Senator Walter Mondale. "We learned how to work together, and they are going to hear more from us in the future." It sounded like postgame, locker-room bitterness. But the stakes were high-the $20 billion defense-appropriations bill for weapons and...
As usual, the Senator who led the Defense Department's bill to its passage was Mississippi Democrat John Stennis. Stennis' sympathy for the military has never been questioned, but last week it was suggested that he had exacted a price for supporting the Nixon Administration's bill...
"I hit him in the face and he went down. He came back up right away and he hit me with this blackjack. I've got a knot the size of a goose egg on my head." That was Idaho's Senator Len B. Jordan reporting a personal...