Word: brayton
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...military experts blame the Administration for the decline, arguing that President Reagan has yet to clarify whether or not he favors a draft to beef up the armed forces. Selective Service officials say the main problem is youthful sloth. "There's a procrastination factor involved," says Assistant Director Brayton Harris. "I have a 17-year-old son, and I can't even get the kid to put out the trash on time." Others attribute it to ignorance. Since the passage of the new registration law (and a subsequent Supreme Court decision upholding the exemption of women), there...
...know we will save the country four to five weeks in a general mobilization," Brayton Harris, assistant director of Selective Service says, upping earlier government estimates by a month. Harris adds that Reagan's claim that registration will save no more than a week is based on outdated information. "We just did not have the numbers right in our initial guesses," he says...
Elsewhere in the country; police reported only scattered protests. Vandals sacked post offices in Los Angeles, and officials arrested sit-in participants in New York and Chicago, but "generally things went smoothly," Brayton Harris, assistant director of Selective Service, said yesterday...
...Brayton Harris, associate director of the SSS, yesterday declined to comment on the pending case...
...Brayton Harris, assistant director of the Selective Service System (SSS), said last night that although the issue remains alive in Congress, it will probably not be considered in the near term...