Word: instead
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...disturbing that perhaps the strongest arguments in favor of reinstating the draft have not been mentioned either by the Carter administration or by the members of the press. Instead, almost all of the public discussion has thus far been limited to the implications of the draft for military and international affairs. However, it is worth noting that a return to military conscription is important not only because our nation needs to have its conventional forces strengthened, but rather primarily because of the requirements of social equity and democracy...
This commission will apparently not be the Robespierrean tribunal that the Iranians originally had sought. Instead of making judgments, it will simply gather facts, hear charges and then submit a report to the U.N. Said a U.N. diplomat from a country that is being considered for a commission seat: "The U.S. will not be humiliated by the report." Mentioned as possible panel members have been, among others, Algeria, Bangladesh, France, Syria and Venezuela...
...country's industrial boom. As deputy to Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker in South Viet Nam (1968-72), he administered a policy he described as "one of buying as much time as we could" after the U.S. had abandoned its doomed attempt "to win the war with money and people instead of brains...
...sort of company man that CBS appreciates, and is thought by some at the network to appear a bit too stolid on the screen. Still, Mudd was so sure he had the job that he recently refused to fill in one week for Cronkite; he wanted to go skiing instead. "I think he overestimated his hand," says one colleague. Said Mudd, who may well leave the network: "The management of CBS and CBS News has made its decision on Walter Cronkite's successor, according to its current values and standards. From the beginning, I have regarded myself as a news...
...product exists both on and off the screen: a soft-spoken Texan in a Savile Row suit, easygoing in a down-home country way and clearly in a big hurry, an adopted Easterner who has polished his background instead of forgetting it. The son of a pipeline worker and a waitress, Rather grew up in Houston and played end on his high school football team, hoping to win an athletic scholarship when he graduated. The only place interested enough to take a look was Sam Houston State Teachers College. Rather's mother cashed in two $25 savings bonds...