Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seniors, approximately 660 are eligible for the draft physically, and about one-third of these men planned on occupational deferments. Fox said...
...Local draft boards can now review and revoke the deferments of seniors holding H-A's for jobs they will take after graduation...
Those men trying to get occupational deferments through VISTA no longer stand any chance at all of receiving a H-A. On April 23, VISTA authorities in the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) notified all state draft directors that they were withdrawing their request for occupational deferments...
...addition, students holding H-A de-ferments for work they plan to do with VISTA in June stand a high chance of having their deferments revoked. Feeney said. "The deferment was predicted on the OEO request. If the local draft boards don't take the [April 23] request into consideration, they're rather remiss...
...Feeney said that the extreme interpretation of Nixon's directive would be for local draft boards to revoke immediately all H-A's, regardless of whether men are presently in the Peace Corps, teaching. or the like. "More likely." Feeney said, "they would allow the present deferments to run out before they review them...