Word: draft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Defense Department yesterday reduced the June draft call from 29,500 to 20,000. The Pentagon also announced lower draft calls through the fall, including a July quota...
...July call is the lowest since the 11,400 of April, 1967. Draft calls rose sharply at the start of this year because so many men called in the Vietnam buildup two years ago were completing their compulsory service. That cycle has now been completed...
...were tremendously impressed with the results," Barry A. Margolin '70, a spokesman for the Draft Union, said yesterday. "Only 46 undergraduates signed a similar statement last spring," he said...
Better canvassing, Margolin said, would probably have turned out many more signers. He said that the Draft Union had missed a lot of off-campus students, and that late yesterday afternoon--after the statement had been submitted for publication--people were calling him with additional names...
Margolin added that more than 200 Radcliffe students have signed a pledge "to fight against the draft for the Vietnam war." The pledge, he explained, is a commitment to "personally involve themselves" in draft resistance work...