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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Feeney contends that student deferments and participation in National Guard and other short-term duty programs will remove so many men from the draft pool that every number will be called before the available slots for draftees are filled. Speaking at Springfield College, he called the lottery "a cruel deception...
An assistant general counsel to draft director Lewis B. Hershey will arrive in Boston on Monday to investigate Feeney's charges, a spokesman for Selective Service National Headquarters reported yesterday. "Those are some pretty strong statements," the spokesman said.
Selective Service emphasizes that the size of the draft call is contingent upon such factors as the number of deferments and exemptions and the size of American armed commitment, none of which are now calculable.
The sources of this mistrust are partially historical, but the positions taken during the negotiations have only added to the gap. Harvard has been most reluctant to discuss setting a goal of a specific percentage of black workers on construction jobs, and has, for the most part, offered only vaguer...
No matter what detailed methods are worked out for increasing black employment in Harvard construction, one side-effect is probable: the costs of construction here will rise. The exclusion of blacks from most building trades means that few black workers are as skilled at such work as white workers are...