Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...explain his economic policies (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). To quiet grumbling from the Hill that he has drifted out of touch, Ford met with a range of congressional leaders both to talk economics and explain the SALT agreement tentatively reached with the Soviet Union. In an effort to persuade more draft evaders and deserters to respond to his flagging amnesty program, he granted full pardon to eight convicted resisters and conditional clemency to ten others. To counter criticism that his White House has not yet focused on domestic problems in the fashion that it has foreign affairs, Ford has decided, TIME...
...come-by skills that they will need when business picks up again. But unskilled youths find job prospects so poor that they are joining the Army in greater numbers than expected, quieting the Pentagon's fears of last year that the ranks could not be filled once the draft ended. Recruitment rose 3,100 over forecasts during the fall, and would-be enlistees are flocking in so fast that the Army is raising its acceptance standards...
Within the past week, President Ford granted full pardons to eight convicted war resisters, evidence that the passions of Viet Nam are finally burning out. There are no longer any American troops fighting and dying in that country, and the draft has been successfully abolished; the volunteer Army is in fact oversubscribed. Congress has begun to reform its creaky, outmoded machinery. Nelson Rockefeller is likely to be confirmed as Vice President, perhaps providing the Executive Branch with the domestic authority it has so far failed to exercise. Overseas, where shadows deepen, there are still a few glimpses of good...
...United States will go to war again, in five or 20 or 50 years. Very likely our next war will be of the type that Clausewitz called "wars of policy" -conflicts unlikely to yield quick, unambiguous victories. The war will not be popular, therefore; the draft will be reintroduced; and the officer factories will go on double overtime. It is possible another Calley will be commissioned and that another massacre will occur. What we can labor to assure is that such an episode will be exposed the Army itself swiftly, honestly, by remorselessly...
...California AFL-CIO executive John Henning argued they were left out of the negotiations that led to the introduction of this provision before the full convention that night. They accused Chairman Strauss of over-reacting to rumors about possible walkouts by blacks over affirmative action rules in an earlier draft...