Word: drafted
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...easy to see what might be done. Commitments could be lightened, but which friendly states should be told the U.S. might not defend them? Military forces could be built up further; the U.S. may even need the draft. But Reagan is having trouble getting his present defense-spending requests through Congress (he asked for a 14.2% increase over fiscal 1983). Perhaps the most comforting thought is that the Soviet Union, faced by a hostile China on one flank and ringed by potentially mutinous East European allies on another, has its own worries about how much military force it could safely...
Late last week, the state legislature passed and sent to the governor a bill which would deny state financial aid to students who have not registered for the draft. If Dukakis decides to sign the legislation into law, Massachusetts will be the first state to follow the federal government's lead in establishing such a statute...
Regardless of "public sentiment" to sign the bill, Dukakis should still veto it, if only to postpone it for at least a year. This would allow time for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on constitutionality of linking financial aid with draft registration on a national level--a law which opponents say violates the right to a fair trial and induces self-incrimination. Since the justices are expected to decide on the matter in the next few months, it would seem practical for Dukakis to delay implementation and see whether his "serious questions" are indeed justified...
Demonstrators included members of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement, the Committee on Central America, the Spartacus Youth League, Mobilization for Survival, the Boston Alliance Against Registration and the Draft, and an adhoc committee from the Law School...
Senator Ernest Rollings of South Carolina, a Democratic presidential candidate, called on the Administration to draft a plan to withdraw the Marines within 60 days. "If they've been put there to fight, then there are far too few," he said. "If they've been put there to be killed, there are far too many." Meanwhile, Democratic Front Runner Walter Mondale cautiously avoided the issue Sunday, after making a brief statement...