Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More positively, the Congress extended voting rights in national elections to 18-year-olds, instituted a lottery system for the draft, passed a comprehensive reform of the Post Office and launched programs to provide better rail passenger service, check air pollution from automobiles and combat water pollution. It gave the Federal Government new powers to enforce safety standards in industry and in coal mines. But it also demonstrated, all too dramatically, just how badly its own procedures need to be modernized...
...Administration, well aware of the deepening crisis of the cities, has indicated that it will put up a much tougher fight for the plan this year. It is working on a new draft that could increase the first-year ante to $2 billion, perhaps as much as $5 billion, and has lined up bipartisan support for the idea. Moreover, there were strong indications that one of the duties of newly appointed Treasury Secretary John Connally would be to induce fellow Southerner Mills to back the program...
Harvard has refused to cooperate with local draft boards seeking information on student deferment cases, according to the Selective Service System...
...complaints against Carr were that he had not been active enough in taking action against draft evaders, that he had not been cooperating with draft counseling services, and that he had practiced law while remaining in his post...
Carr categorically denied the complaint about the draft counseling agencies, saying he had never denied practicing law. "But in every instance I have taken time off from my annual leave," he said. "As a result, I have never taken one full week's vacation since I took...