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ALONG WITH THE NOV. 27 ISSUE OF TIME, I received my son's draft-registration form. As I gazed at the young soldier on the cover and took in that haunting question ''Is Bosnia Worth Dying For?'' I saw my own son's face, and my mind raced back a quarter-century to the battlefields of Vietnam. As a disabled veteran, I still see the faces of my dead friends. I still feel the pain of my wounds. I suffer as tourists visit Ho Chi Minh City. Will the madness ever end? I am confident that I speak for millions...
...instead to any private group that spends 70% of its funds on the poor. "We're going to deliver $95.9 billion dollars [to individual charities] over five years," he predicts. His plan has the support of Olasky and progressive Republicans such as former Education Secretary William Bennett, who helped draft...
...canvassers to get himself on the New York ballot, making him the only Republican to challenge actively Dole's hegemony in that state. Experts say this effort could cost Forbes as much as $1.5 million. He is also ready to announce an agreement with the leaders of the preeminent draft-Powell organization, which is active in all 50 states, to come aboard the Forbes campaign. Because Forbes is not dependent on fund raising or federal matching grants, he can stay in the race as long as he wants...
ALTHOUGH JEFFERSON DID NOT DIRECTLY draft the new Constitution, your letter writer is correct in his belief that when it was being considered, Jefferson was wary of the idea of a strong central government. Initially, he was critical of the proposed Constitution because it contained no guarantees of civil rights. No doubt Jefferson's criticism influenced the turnabout on this issue of fellow Virginian James Madison, who was a principal drafter of the Constitution and who later proposed the Bill of Rights. ROGER W. SEILER South Nyack, New York...
That doctor and the conflict-of-interest questions which arose around him prompted the hospital to draft new regulations which should take effect within the next two months, hospital spokesperson Terri Hornbach-Torres said yesterday...