Word: bristol
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...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...
...Bristol and spokesmen for other national anti-registration groups, however, point to the reaction that greeted Carter's program immediately after the president's speech. Students across the nation demonstrated against the president's plan, and at Harvard more than 800 turned out on one of the coldest nights of the year to protest the proposal. But since the bill entered Congress in February, registration news has faded from the pages of newspapers and activism has decreased...
...Congressional decision keeps dragging on and on," Bristol says, adding, "Maybe people are fed up with that." Steven Leifman, national director fo the Coalition of Independent Colleges and University Students, suggest that "students don't really feel that registration is that big of a threat--it's not something that's going to hurt them tomorrow...
...until now, Landau contends, a number of dissatisfied people in the country have had nowhere to focus their energies. If instituted, draft registration will "provide a focus for the national debate over military and foreign policy," Landau says. Bristol echoes that judgment. "The opposition isn't dead," Bristol argues. "Once it becomes law--and the dates are announced for registration--there's not only going to be a lot of non-registration but also civil disobedience at post offices" and other forms of protest...
Some anti-registration activists feel that the government's real problem will be those people who do not vocally denounce registration but simply ignore the president's order. When he testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee, Bristol warned its members that there's going to be a lot of "quiet absence...