Word: draft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time that many of us are taking an opportunity to choose a different direction (not necessarily a different quality) for our lives. Expediency has governed us all, and for many years it has allowed no choices. We have staved in school and in college not only to avoid the draft, but also to guarantee the security of our own futures. Maybe we have wanted to acquire certain skills in schooling which would help us help others, but we have kept our best interests in mind, too. In this sense, we have guilty admiration for true revolutionaries, whatever their stripe-they...
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" and "a sugar coating on the deal...
...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 contends that many people have been misled by Defense Department estimates for 1970, which anticipate that 850,000 men will be eligible to serve but only 250,000 will be affected by the draft. This, however is a Defense Department estimate, not a Selective Service guideline...
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...