Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Some of the hardest-hit youth groups have been the Vietnamese Patriots, an organization of students from South Vietnam who are sympathetic to the NLF; Cartier Latin, a student newspaper of the University of Quebec which published the FLQ manifesto before its reading on Montreal radio; and the American Draft Resistance Committee...
...student between the ages of 20 and 25 and your lottery number is above 195, you may now escape the draft by changing your status...
Curtis W. Tarr. national director of the Selective Service System, said Monday that registrants with numbers over 195 will not be drafted this year. He ordered all draft boards to accept requests for changes in draft status...
Students with borderline draft numbers below 195 will be aided by Tarr's order. They may retain their student status for this year. If, next year, their numbers exceed the national ceiling, they can change to 1-A and so move into the second priority at the end of the year...
Curtis W. Tarr, national director of the Selective Service System, said Monday that registrants with numbers over 195 will not be drafted this year. He ordered all draft boards to accept rephysically fit and are not deferred for other reasons. When a student deferment runs out, the student is reclassified 1-A and placed in the pool for that year with his original lottery number...