Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...draft cards turned in Saturday are being held by the local UNDO group until a national convocation Tuesday in Princeton decides what should be done with the cards collected nationally...
...rally was sponsored by the Boston-area chapter of the Union for National Draft Opposition (UNDO), a national group with headquarters at Princeton which was formed early this month to coordinate anti-draft efforts...
There were three speakers-John D. Elder. associate director of field education at the Divinity School; Claudette Piper. associate national director of RESIST and one of the Boston Eight recently involved in draft file destruction; and Peter Irons, a teaching fellow at B. U. who has served 26 months in jail for refusing induction-at the rally which was chaired by James M. Fallows...
...UNDO representative said yesterday that the group will again accept draft cards at 2 p. m. Wednesday in the Yard-probably on the steps of Memorial Church-and that Saturday's rally was "only the first in a series...
Since President Nixon's announcement of his decision to invade Cambodia 17 days ago, more than 14,000 men have turned in their draft cards-exceeding the national total for the previous two years...