Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even if Congress fails by July 1 to extend President Nixon's authority to draft men into the Armed Forces, students may still be inducted after their deferments expire...
Spurred by the possibility that Congress will not complete new draft legislation by July 1-the date when the old law expires-the Selective Service is now studying a provision of the 1967 law which may allow drafting after the July 1 expiration date...
...knowing what to demand once they had a building and some hostages. Gradually, over the first dozen riots, the grapevine worked and experience was shared, culture accumulated, and when prisoners had their buildings and their hostages they knew where to look for typewriters and mimeograph machines, how to draft demands, how to organize. Negotiations became stylized...
Third, almost everybody holds a domino theory, whichever side he is on, at Harvard or in Vietnam. The proceedings of faculty meetings are dominated by why we must not do this or that because of what it will lead to next time, the draft today and foreign policy tomorrow, black studies today and biology tomorrow, degree requirements today and tenure appointments tomorrow. It seems to be the same on the other side, the side of the radical students...
...covering letter from the Citizens' Commission provides a breakdown of the stolen documents according to subject matter. Thirty per cent are manuals and routine forms, 25 per cent concern bank robberies, 20 per cent murder, rape, and interstate theft, 7 per cent draft resistance, 7 per cent AWOL soldiers and 1 per cent organized crime, including gambling...