Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...Draft-age males with high lottery number now have the blessings of the director of the Selective Service System to strategically plan their service liabilities...
...Draft director Curtis W. Tarr established a policy yesterday permitting men to drop certain deferments at will...
...guns lined up behind the plan. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird announced that he had ordered all services to begin the "zero draft" campaign immediately; Army Chief of Staff William Westmoreland vowed that "unnecessary irritants and unattractive features of Army life" will be eliminated as quickly as possible; and Laird's top manpower assistant, Roger T. Kelley, spent 90 minutes briefing newsmen on the program...
...make the plan work, Westmoreland said, the current rate of recruitment and re-enlistment must be at least douled and possibly tripled. This will be difficult without the threat of the draft as an inducement to potential volunteers. At present, the Army figures that only about 40% of its volunteers would have enlisted if they had not feared that they would be drafted anyway...