Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mounting antimilitarism in the U.S. threatens even the extension of the draft, which Congress must debate next year. Top Pentagon officials expect the vote to be extremely close. Until they have time to effect all the reforms that might make service more appealing, they consider Selective Service the only weapon they have to maintain adequate manpower. Declares Secretary...
Selective Service officials announced Monday that 19-year-olds with draft numbers 100 and below may be drafted in January. The agency expects 100 to be the ceiling for several months, officials said...
...lottery numbers in November 1969-and who have not yet been called-remain eligible for induction in the first three months of next year if they were classified I-A or I-A-O at the end of 1970 and have numbers that had been reached by their local draft boards. Under present policy, they will be ordered to report before the 1971 pool...
...When the Department of Defense introduced the lottery they didn't know what a lottery meant. They set limits not understanding that for many boards not enough men would be available. Many boards couldn't meet the quota assigned last year," Arthur J. Boyd, a draft counsellor with the American Friends Service Committee, said last night...
...Pentagon announced Saturday that the January 1970 draft call of 12,000 would be increased to 17,000 next year...