Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cope with total social and economic chaos. Before the Americans arrived, at least 85 per cent of the South Vietnamese lived in rural areas. By 1970, more than 65 per cent of the population was concentrated in the cities as a result of the American government's forced draft urbanization program--a program which left the Vietnamese countryside defoliated and riddled with 30-foot-wide bomb craters. Saigon's population skyrocketed from 450,000 to nearly four million by the time we left. Three million South Vietnamese were left unemployed. Many had worked for Thieu's army or civil bureaucracy...
About 70 residents of Holden Green, one of Harvard's five married housing dormitories, voted overwhelmingly last night to reject a draft plan for relocation proposed last week by the Real Estate Department...
Most said they would stay in their apartments past the June 15 deadline for relocation indicated in the draft plan...
...RESIDENTS IN Holden Green and Shaler Lane, two of Harvard's married student houses, are worried, and with good reason. If the Real Estate Department puts through its proposed draft for housing renovation and relocation, these tenants will be made to leave their apartments for extensive renovations many claim they don't need, and forced to pay higher rents after they return...
...draft board. Ford and the Office of Management and Budget have decided to rely on the National Guard and reserve troops to fill out the regular volunteer forces in the early stages of any national emergency. The Selective Service budget will be cut by 80%, to less than $7 million in fiscal 1977. That is enough to keep 100 employees (down from 2,000 now) planning emergency preparedness procedures, but far less than would be needed to register the 2 million or so youths who turn 18 each year. So no more draft cards are being issued. It is still...