Word: drafting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Kenneth Katz makes several good points in his editorial "The Draft Is Only Fair" (February 25). He correctly notes that many antiwar, and some pro-war, students are more concerned about their own lives than about anything else. His desire for universal conscription is also commendable, though I don't completely agree with him on the reasons for implementing it. But the editorial is fraught with misconceptions and factual errors, and these popular myths need to be dispelled...
Strong, who will serve as secretary-general for the 1992 conference, said that two major goals of the conference will be to draft an "Earth Charter," a guideline of principles for relations between nations and the earth, and to establish an environmental agenda for the 21st Century...
...full council will vote next March on the 80-page draft, which comes out of months of meetings of the city's Committee on Civil and Human Rights...
...lines in the event married soldiers with children are both called to serve. Cheney's position prompted the sponsor of the Military Orphans Prevention bill to remind him about his own history as a noncombatant. California Congresswoman Barbara Boxer points out that Cheney received a deferment from the Vietnam draft in 1966 because his wife Lynne was pregnant. "You . . . felt that your wife and soon-to-be-born child needed you," Boxer wrote Cheney last week. "Our bill . . . is not even that generous...
...imperfect success of the propaganda campaign leaves Iraq with one big hope for a face-saving way out of the war: Soviet diplomacy. Moscow has not only gone along with the U.S. demand that Iraq get out of Kuwait completely and unconditionally but also helped draft the U.N. resolution authorizing the use of force if Saddam did not comply by Jan. 15. That, however, was when glasnost and democratization were in full flower, and Eduard Shevardnadze, a professed friend of the U.S., was Foreign Minister...