Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reasons for the increase-over 50 per cent-have been hard to pin down, Epps said, but one important factor has been the draft lottery system...
...Dorchester draft resister who last week sought sanctuary in the Paulist Center in Boston was convicted Tuesday of non-possession of his Selective Service registration and classification cards...
Paul Couming, 22, received a one-year suspended sentence and a three-year probation on the condition that he undertake alternative service as a conscientious objector. Couming and his draft board will determine the alternate service, according to Couming's father...
...remember the draft board assaults, these men and their accomplices did do violence. They terrorized the personnel, committed arson, tore up property, poured blood around, and generally acted like hoodlums and vandals. I hold that violence, like virginity and pregnancy, is not subject to degree...
Hesburgh was clearly a victim of both academic and youthful intolerance. But he showed greater understanding than his detractors. After brooding about the draft, for example, he concluded that "the only kind of patriotism the Government was talking about was going overseas and killing people. The thing keeps gnawing at you." Last spring's Cambodian incursion and student deaths at Kent State and Jackson State brought fresh indignation. When the Notre Dame campus boiled up, the main speaker at a massive protest rally was not the local S.D.S. head but Hesburgh. In a sermon a week later, he told...