Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...draft proposes that possession and use of under 2 ounces of marijuana be legalized while the manufacture and sale would remain illegal...
...President Nixon pursued his policy of U.S. troop withdrawals and Vietnamization, the war issue was muted. He secured from the House a resolution that seemed to support his policy. He won a lottery draft system-which an earlier Congress had refused to give President Johnson-and this may further dampen war dissent. He scored victories on other security matters: authority and initial funds to deploy anti-ballistic missiles and Senate approval of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty...
Social Costs. Soon after he took office last January. Attorney General Scott expanded his duties to include protecting the environment. He hired experts to draft new legislation that would set tougher fines for pollution ($5,000 for a first offense) and empower the attorney general to sue governmental agencies. Under the laws, an offender would have to abide by a court-enforced schedule for installing anti-pollution equipment-or be held in contempt...
ONCE the last of the bowl games is out of the way, the 26 National and American League football teams will sit down to draft this year's college seniors into the ranks of the pros. At that point, the most important man on every coach's staff will be his chief scout. How really valuable is that scrambling, rollout quarterback who has been dazzling college fans all fall and has the press clippings to prove it? Can that light little scatback or that skinny, glue-fingered end stand up against the agile brutes of the big leagues...
...like Phipps' size and strength. "He can take a helluva beating," says one scout, "and still come back for more." For all Phipps' talent, though, several scouts say that TERRY BRADSHAW, 6 ft. 2 in., 210 lbs., Louisiana Tech, may be even better-possibly the No. 1 draft choice. "He's much like Roman Gabriel," says one report. "He's big, he stands in there like Gabe, and he has a pro arm." Indeed he does. Bradshaw throws a football like the national high school javelin champion he once was; he fired 390 completions...