Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seventy-two men turned in their draft cards at a rally in the Yard Saturday morning to dramatize their opposition to the draft and to the war in Southeast Asia...
UNDO. a national group with head-quarters at Princeton, was formed early this month to coordinate anti-draft efforts. An UNDO representative said last night that since President Nixon's invasion of Cambodia, 14,000 men have turned in their draft cards-more than the national total for the previous two years...
...local UNDO group will hold the cards it collects tomorrow until a national anti-draft convocation at Princeton next week decides what to do with cards collected nationally...
Federal law makes non-possession of a draft card punishable by 5 years in prison and/or a $10,000 tine. But recent commonis by government officials suggest that prosecution is unlikely...
There will be three speakers at tomorrow's rally: John Elder, assistant director for 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. James M. Fallows '70 will chair the rally...