Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Liberal Union yesterday endorsed a report attacking Congressional proposals to extend the present draft for four years. The statement accuses Congress of "taking the easy way out and sweeping the whole problem under...
...president James M. Bardeen '60 said the report urged the Senate "to set up some sort of committee to study the draft law. Everyone seems to say it is a bad law. Why don't they do something about it?" he asked...
...conclusion, the report expressed the hope that a thorough study of the problem would not only put the draft on a fairer basis, but would "lessen our dependence on the draft, or perhaps eliminate it entirely...
Shortly after, California's Democratic Representative Chet Holifield tangled with McCone. Holifield had read a draft of AEC's plan two days earlier, and while McCone was testifying, he issued a press release criticizing the AEC's plan as "inadequate" and "pitifully small." When a copy of the release was handed to McCone while he was still on the stand, he grew red with anger, waved it in the air, cried: "I just don't know why I am here, Mr. Chairman. I find that Mr. Holifield had a press release all printed and written...
...proposed new U.S.-Iranian agreement, to guard against invasion from Iraq as well as from Russia. It was hardly the kind of guarantee the U.S. could give. But in an attempt to bring the U.S. around, the Shah received a special Soviet diplomatic mission to his country to draft a new Soviet-Iranian nonaggression treaty (a tactic he had previously deplored when Egypt's President Nasser tried...