Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...considering a salary increase for high-ranking federal officials (the pay for Congressmen would go from $44,600 to $57,000), federal energy agency proposals, and even some kind of amnesty for Viet Nam draft evaders and deserters...
...fight for a universal unconditional amnesty will continue," vows Mike Powers, a spokesman for the American Deserters Committee in Sweden. His group will send a representative to a conference of U.S. draft resisters, military deserters and sympathizers to be held in Toronto, Canada, to coincide with the Inauguration of Jimmy Carter...
When he does, Carter probably will discover that even a "trust me" President probably cannot successfully reconcile the views of those who believe that anyone who failed to serve when called committed a treasonable act with those who feel that draft evasion was a lonely decision of a high moral order. Even the general outline of his plan, which he sketched during the campaign, was criticized as "too little and too late" by some of the exiled Americans who might be affected, and denounced as too lenient by various veterans' groups...
What Carter promised was a blanket pardon "for those who violated Selective Service laws." This presumably would include all those civilians who fled the country to avoid the draft, simply failed to register or refused to submit to induction. As for those who deserted after induction or enlistment, Carter said each case "should be handled on an individual basis in accordance with our nation's system of military justice." That seemed to imply that military officials, hardly lenient in such matters, would have to process all of these desertion cases and try to decide what was in each person...
...demand. The back pages of the winter '77 issue are filled with classified ads like "Vietnam vet, experienced, seeks high-risk, high-pay work anywhere in the world." The seekers are the sad legacy of Vietnam. They know how to fight, but not what to fight for--unless the draft or a soldier's salary is a good basis for killing people. The ads do not read, "Good soldier seeks just and true cause to support...