Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After surveying more than 5,000 students at 39 diverse campuses, ranging from Princeton to Michigan's Grand Valley State College, the Gergens found that almost one out of three students favored immediate withdrawal from Viet Nam. Pure self-interest was a relatively minor factor; the students' draft-lottery numbers bore little relation to their views on Viet Nam. Instead, more than two-thirds based their beliefs on the moral and social damage that they feel the war is inflicting on American society...
Those assigned numbers in the lottery do not become draft eligible until next year. Their numbers will then determine how quickly they are called...
...revised lottery format designed to prevent a repeat of charges levelled against the first draft lottery last December, the officials picked sealed capsules from two drums-one giving a date of the year and the other a number between...
Once assigned a number, the potential draftee keeps it until he is 26 and his eligibility expires. However, under the new draft system inaugurated last December, he is only eligible for a period of one year-that is to say, if he survives a year of draft eligibility without being called, he becomes exempt from the draft except in times of national emergency...
Selective Service officials just as promptly announced that the Pentagon estimates were hogwash and that everyone should worry just as much as they had in years past. Everyone did, because most draft officials warned that they would probably be drafting everyone...