Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Nixon signed yesterday the new draft bill which makes the men of the Class of '75 the first undergraduates since World War II to be subject to military induction...
Upperclassmen will be allowed to keep their deferments provided they can convince their local draft board that they are "satisfactorily pursuing a full-time course of instruction," and have not reached their 24 birthday or graduated...
Under the new regulations, freshmen will be inducted according to the number assigned to their birthdate in the annual draft lottery, just like their contemporaries who have not continued in school...
Many freshmen are concerned about their draft status, judging from the increase in the number of them that have consulted the draft counselors at the Office of Graduate and Career Plans...
...current draft bill was stalled in Congress for seven months; this caused the first gap in military conscription since World War II. More than half of the Senate's time this year was consumed by debate on the bill, which was finally passed 55 to 30 on September...