Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Asia. The actors are veterans. Who should be listened to more attentively? The phrase "They're cowards-they're afraid to go" cannot be utilized here. They have gone. Who could turn his back on a blinded or limbless soldier whose purpose is not evasion of the draft but instruction on the horrifying results of the draft...
...congressional challenge to the President's foreign policy reached a new intensity last week. The Senate began a lengthy debate on whether to give Nixon a two-year extension of the draft; many argued strongly against it. Senator John Stennis, conservative chairman of the Armed Services Committee and a loyal supporter of Administration military policies, introduced a resolution that would curtail presidential power to make future wars. After years of objecting to the heavy U.S. troop commitment in Europe, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield took decisive action: he introduced an amendment to the draft bill that would compel...
Strict Constructionism. While fighting off unacceptable amendments, the Administration had its hands full trying to salvage the draft bill itself. For the first time since 1940, when President Franklin Roosevelt persuaded an isolationist Congress to renew Selective Service, the Senate seriously considered whether to have a draft at all. Viet Nam, of course, was the reason. Some Senators argued that abolishing the draft would bring the war to a speedier conclusion...
...thousands of others who are relatively safe from the draft also seem reluctant to commit themselves to a vocation. Of the 1,139 students in Harvard's class of '67, 90 declared themselves "undecided" about their career plans; of this year's 1,100 or so, there are at least 250 in that limbo. Last year the placement director at Beloit wrote to every junior, suggesting that they chat with him about how to prepare a resume to get a job. "I didn't get one response," he says. "Vocational planning to them is anathema, an Establishment sort of thing...
Responding to the objections on "detail," Moore said, "Will Harvard next year help us draft a proposal and introduce a nomination? While they criticize our methods, they never come forward with others...