Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NDAG intended to replace the draft board in City Hall with a Vocations for Social Change (VSC) office, but failed. The VSC will operate the table from 12 noon to 2 p.m. five days a week...
...context of our campaign is the Vietnam war," Charles Fagar, a student at Harvard Divinity School and NDAG press spokesman, said. "We think the replacement of an instrument of death like the draft board with an alternative, life-affirming project like VSC is an occasion for all of us to celebrate...
...assistant to the City Manager had told NDAG member Arthur Fink that the draft board pays a token rent of one dollar per year to the City. When the NDAG offered to rent the present draft board room for that amount, Edward G. Seffilian, temporary city auditor, said that for the last twelve years rent for the room has been 75 dollars per month...
Feeney met with three NDAG representatives. Edward Lazar, representative of the American Friends Service Committee to the NDAG, said, "Feeney was very cordial, although he couldn't understand the relationship of the draft system to the Vietnam war. We explained to him that the draft makes aggression possible...
Sanctuary's staff offers counseling on the draft, drugs, abortions and other problems, referring people to medical services and psychiatrists if necessary. It also has a research and public information service which is housed in the Old Cambridge Baptist Church...