Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...JANUARY 21, the day following his inauguration, President Jimmy Carter fulfilled one of his major campaign promises by issuing a blanket pardon to all those who had peacefully refused to register for the draft or be inducted into the armed services during the Vietnam War. By granting the pardon, Carter hoped to bring America's tragic Vietnam experience to an end. Unfortunately, the pardon, while a step in the right direction, does not go nearly far enough...
Under the terms of the pardon only 20,000 draft resisters are covered. Carter has indicated that he will review the cases of the more than 100,000 deserters and others with less than honorable discharges on an individual basis, and that he will follow a similar procedure in the cases of those demonstrators convicted of destroying selective service files or protesting violently against...
...grew out their horror at the senseless destruction they witnessed. Moreover, while the majority of those eligible for pardons are middle-class whites, a disproportionately large number of deserters are members of disadvantaged minority groups. Many of these people simply lacked the information or financial means to evade the draft. Any government action to heal the scars caused by Vietnam surely must include these men. It should also cover those who participated in non-violent acts such as the destruction of selective service files in an attempt to stop American involvement...
...surprising that the first novel to come from the typewriter of the 1971 President of The Crimson is about the harsh lessons of contemporary politics viewed from the activist perspective of a onetime building-occupier. After all, author Garrett Epps '72 entered college in the era of LBJ, the draft and Vietnam, and marched out at the time of Nixon, Cambodia, and Gulf in Angola, with the April 1969 bust and Kent State in between. What comes as a surprise is that the novel, The Shad Treatment, is about the mud and blood of a Virginia governor's race...
...over how to handle it. Jesuit Theologian Avery Dulles, then president of the society, says: "We were aware that it was an explosive document." In an effort to avert criticism, Dulles assigned three scholars to review the work and make suggestions to the committee before the fourth and final draft was written...