Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group has been meeting for several weeks already and expects to consult several persons before coming up with a final draft...
Ferber spoke at a Boston news conference, announcing plans for a New Mobilization Committee demonstration to be held Thursday at Government Center in support of the nation-wide Anti-Draft Week...
...increasing number of resisters has burdened the government with a backlog of draft refusal cases and slowed the judiciary process. Over 500 people in the Massachusetts district who refused induction since December have not yet been indicted," Ferber said...
Stanislaw R. J. Suchecki, assistant U. S. Attorney for Massachusetts, added that about half of the 1968 draft refusal cases are still in various stages of examination...
Ferber, citing figures from his forthcoming book on draft resistance during the '60's, which he is co-authoring with Staughton Lynd, said that twice as many people were indicted in 1968 as in the previous year, but only 18 per cent were convicted compared to 48 per cent...