Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Attorneys for Brigham and Babcock drafted a plan whereby the hospital would assume responsibility for the center. The draft, with minor changes, was accepted by the Health Department on August...
...critics call such qualities indecisiveness. His staff finds the charge peculiar. They know Muskie as a tough, demanding boss with extraordinarily high standards that reflect an almost excessive decisiveness. On the draft-reform bill this year, for example, there were some 65 amendments in the Senate. On each one, Muskie demanded a staff memo. Adding to the burden, Muskie made a major speech on the bill that required six redrafts. He is a cool, cerebral and persistent plodder, insisting on thorough research, wary of hasty conclusions, suspicious of headline-grabbing pronouncements. Says George Mitchell, his deputy campaign director...
Shortly before dawn one day last week, while riots in the Puerto Rican section of Camden, N.J., were diverting the local police, eight men and women stole into the federal offices in the courthouse. They were determined to steal or destroy FBI documents and federal draft records. Instead, they stepped into a well-laid trap. Three floors below the Government offices, a team of FBI agents awaited their furtive entrance. By the time the roundup was completed, the agents had nabbed the eight intruders as well as 20 of their confederates who had been assigned various sentinel and communications tasks...
...invited his arrests for a quite specific political goal. Or Bobby Scale, who underwent a political trial as a member, for a time, of the Chicago "conspiracy"-but not as a defendant in the New Haven trial, where a murder was involved. Or the Berrigan brothers, whose destruction of draft cards was a symbolic action directly intended to change the political course of the U.S. Undeniably the U.S. can and does manipulate the law to punish political dissenters. Yet unlike the ideological prisoners of Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia, America's antiEstablishmentarians have been able to use the legal...
Conceived in Haste. To begin with, Suenens charged, the draft was conceived in haste and without any real consultation. It lacks "Biblical perspective," elevates the juridical above the "spiritual and charismatic elements of the church" and "runs the risk of completely blocking all future development" in the church. Moreover, noted the prelate, it is "an obstacle for ecumenism," and perhaps even for Catholicism itself. The current dissatisfaction with church institutions on the part of both priests and laity, he argued, would only be exacerbated by any fundamental law that they had no part in making...