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...number of large-scale construction projects are planned to remedy the Faculty's "overall shortage of space" and a faculty layout of space that "often hampers...academic goals and degrades the quality of interaction among faculty and among students," according to the draft...
...Hanoi with her children, Duong is a veteran of both the Vietnam War and the Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979. As a volunteer soldier in the Communist Youth Brigade, she fought in the Central Highlands beginning in 1967. At the same time, Americans her age were receiving their draft notices. Her fervent support of the revolutionary effort gained her a position on the Vietnamese Communist Party, which expelled...
Nonetheless, anyone who is preparing the last rites for this presidency doesn't know Bill Clinton. The man was declared politically dead after the Gennifer Flowers fiasco, after the Vietnam draft dodging debacle and after mud-wrestling with Jerry Brown in the New York primary--but he kept bouncing back. Most likely, he will do so again...
Last week's decision does open the door to another intriguing debate -- about the draft. The Supreme Court ruled in 1981 that women were excluded from registration because any reinstated draft would be intended to increase the pool of people available for combat. Now that combat planes and ships are open to women, might they be considered part of the available personnel pool in a major conflict? The Pentagon says that for now it has no plans to ask for any changes in the Selective Service system...
...referendum as a "sociological poll," and parliament chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov said it had "brought no losers or winners" -- just a weakening of the state. Yeltsin, however, took his victory as a mandate to begin strengthening his political clout. He summoned regional leaders to Moscow to present a new draft constitution that would turn Russia into a presidential republic with a two-chamber parliament to replace the present Congress of People's Deputies...