Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kenneth J. Coffey, public information director of the Selective Service System, said he did not know when a new C.O. form would be ready. "We have a lot of study to do and it will be a while before we have a new draft," he said. A 1970 Supreme Court decision invalidated the present form by allowing objection on ethical as well as religious beliefs...
...Solomon of the Committee for Legal Research on the Draft said after the form was released in mid-November that "it contains some questions that are irrelevant, others that are misleading, and most are directed toward a glib, over-intellectualized student group...
...heartening figure: 79% thought social and political change can be brought about within the system. Increasingly, youngsters are being given a chance to participate: in a brief ceremony in Perry County, Pa., Governor Milton Shapp swore in Michael J. Simmons, 18, as a member of the five-man local draft board...
...more than two months, draft indictments naming U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Otto Kerner and several of his former top aides have been waiting approval by U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell for submission to a grand jury. Until recently, Kerner had an impeccable reputation. He was Democratic Governor of Illinois from 1961 to 1968 and won national prominence as chairman of a presidential commission investigating urban rioting. Now, if Mitchell decides to prosecute him and a grand jury concurs, Kerner could be indicted for bribery, extortion and income tax fraud. The charges stem from sizable profits he reaped from race...
...Found guilty of breaking the National Football League's rule against "tampering," Robbie was ordered by the league to compensate the Colts by giving them the Dolphins' No. 1 choice in the 1971 player draft...