Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Selective Service notified draft boards Monday to cancel induction orders for men who were drafted in 1972 but given induction postponements...
These men are being placed in an extended priority group and will be the first to be called if there is a draft call in March. If there is no March draft call, all 68,000 men in the extended priority group will be exempt from the draft and further calls will be filled with younger...
...action came as a result of Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird's decision not to issue a January or February draft call. Daniel J. Cronin, deputy draft director in charge of operations, ordered the induction cancellation...
...Nixon studied the draft with Secretary of State William Rogers. Nixon's own lawyer's eye told him that some of the provisions might need some tightening up and that Kissinger would have to nail down the understandings and protocols for the cease-fire machinery. But he was pleased, approved the plan and ordered Kissinger to Saigon to sell it to Thieu. The only dark cloud was a prescient warning by the CIA to expect serious trouble from Thieu...
What happens next? The virtue of the Kissinger plan as it stood in early October was that it really did separate the military issues from the intractable political issues. It is true that the very vagueness of the original draft-not to mention its reaffirmation of Hanoi's "one Viet Nam" position -was highly advantageous to the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong. It is arguable that they won those advantages on the battlefield. But the effect of the Saigon-inspired delay since mid-October has been to weaken, perhaps mortally, the original compromise. Both delegations have been sweating...