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...panoply and the pride behind it collapsed with the Soviet Union itself. In Russia, which inherited most of the former state's military, 2.2 million troops are officially still in uniform, but with many young men dodging the draft, the actual number is probably only 1.8 million. The former far-ranging Soviet navy is staying close to its home ports, and much of the air force is grounded...
...after generations when military service was a prerequisite for elective office -- so that ambitious young men from Harry Truman to George Bush clamored to be in combat -- an unrepentant draft avoider has been elected President. And Bill Clinton says one of his first official acts will be what an agonized hierarchy sees as the gravest challenge ever to military folkways. Their last refuge of traditional masculinity, of an orderly and authoritarian world of moral black and white, is to be opened to admitted homosexuals by Executive Order. The proposed change comes at the same time that a presidential report recommends...
...dirty tricks began in September, when Bush partisans, including White House aides, began circulating unsubstantiated rumors that Clinton had contemplated renouncing his citizenship to avoid the draft during the Vietnam War. Funk found no "conspiracy" to damage Clinton. But he said Steven Berry, the department's Acting Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs, coached Republican Congressman Gerald B. Solomon on how to word a Sept. 29 letter that would provide State with a fig leaf of official justification for a search of Clinton's files. The next day Elizabeth Tamposi, Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs, seized on Solomon's "request...
Should the Celtics draft a 5'8", 50-year-old guy like my father to play forward just because he represents and important demographic group? Of course not. While the Celtics may not be able to create policy for a majority of Americans, they are still a representative group in the United States that people watch closely and identify with. The Celtics can't play well with people who aren't talented enough to contribute to the team. The government should work on the same principle...
...fact, the board adopted many of the recommendations when the report was still in draft form and had been distributed to the board to keep us apprised of the Task Force's progress...