Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...extricate the U.S. from Viet Nam? With an evident sense that time may soon begin to run out, the President last week made several moves. He announced a second withdrawal of troops from combat and a two-month moratorium on the draft. He applied new pressure on the Congress to make selective service more equitable. And he used the rostrum of the United Nations General Assembly to ask for help in ending...
...local draft boards in November and December, during which 50,000 men had been scheduled to be called. The 29,000 men already set for October induction will be spaced out instead over the final three months of this year. At the same time, Nixon announced that if Congress does not act promptly on proposals for draft reform that he submitted last May, he will institute most of them by executive decree (see box, opposite page...
...Defense Melvin Laird. More than anyone else in the Administration, Laird worries about the possible consequences of the autumnal unrest planned by student anti-Pentagon groups. With the opening of school approaching, Laird recently counseled the President to apply pressure for passage of the draft-revision bill submitted to Congress last May. It may be too late to get action this year, but Laird figures that at least students will know that the Administration wanted to change the present inequitable draft system...
Though some 27 versions of such "anti-riot" bills were introduced during the spring and summer, none of them have yet been passed by Congress. The only ones which appear likely to receive approval are those which say in effect only that colleges ought to comply with existing legislation on the subject...
...summer lull in campus disturbances may be the chief reason why new "anti-riot" bills have not been very successful in Congress. As a staff member of the American Council on Education, the association of 1200 colleges which has led the fight against the bills, put it yesterday...