Word: drafted
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Some analysts have called outright for the restoration of the draft. Others have suggested merely a return to compulsory registration for all 18-year-olds so that conscription machinery could start moving quickly if needed in a crisis. In September, the House of Representatives voted against restoring registration but asked the White House to study the question and report to Congress...
...Press Secretary Jody Powell saw it: "Anyone who wishes to challenge the President had better be prepared for a long, tough fight every step of the way." Added a Carter strategist: "This showed we're in good shape organizationally." But Sergio Ben-dixen, executive director of the Florida draft-Kennedy committee, saw a different significance: "We proved we have strength. But it's very tough to fight the incumbent without a real candidate. With him in it, we would have swept Florida...
Meanwhile, the Cambridge City Council this week began to draft an ordinance to control storage and transportation of radioactive wastes produced by Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Dean Johnson, president of the Harvard Square Defense Fund, says the draft EIR is "very inadequate," adding that he fears "the air pollution impact is going to be very, very severe...
Richard Friedman, president of Carpenter and Co., defends the draft EIR, saying that he has never seen "such an exhaustive study...