Word: anti-draft
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Even given a substantial margin of error, however, the numbers indicate that the government's drive to register men may fall far short of the Selective Service's stated goal of 98-per-cent compliance nationwide. Anti-draft activists have estimated that about 15 per cent of the four million men they asked to register would refuse...
...Cambridge, the site of an anti-draft protest Saturday that closed the Harvard Square office on Mt. Auburn St. for several hours, about 1640 19- and 20-year-old males registered...
...While anti-draft groups in Washington and around the country began to gear up for activities during the two-week registration period. Carter repeated his warnings to the Soviet Union, from his January State of the Union address, when he first asked Congress to initiate peacetime registration...
...think that people are any less concerned about registration," Nora Leyland, a spokesman for the Boston Alliance Against Registration and the Draft says, adding "But the end of the term is here and people have to pass their finals." James Bristol, director of the national anti-draft effort for the American Friends Service Committee, concurs with Leyland's judgement but declines to explain the "cooling off" period of April...
...sometimes compare student enthusiasm for him to past surges for former Senator Eugene McCarthy and Sen. George S. McGovern (D--S.D.). But in the absence of a burning emotional issue like Vietnam, the Anderson campaign is distinguished less by moral fervor than by intellectual smugness. There is a second anti-draft candidate today, but the attention he attracts is due too much to the magic of his name with the sub-rational masses, while Anderson's charm lies in a novel new variety of common sense which, we are led to believe, is best appreciated by the elite...