Word: drafted
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Equally important, providing aid money to nonregistrants to replace lost federal loans is subverting the policy of registration itself. Although The Crimson is on record in its opposition to draft registration, we do not agree that filling out a postcard is a particularly onerous imposition of government authority...
ANEWLY ANNOUNCED law denying federal financial aid to students who have not registered for the draft will soon force the University to make a delicate decision--whether to protect students from this unwise statute by replacing the lost funds with Harvard's money. When the regulations go into effect for the '83-'84 academic year, students who have not registered will be ineligible for for Federal aid programs such as Guaranteed Student Loans. Pell Grants, work-study, and other forms of student assistance...
...interest of statesmanship, the President deleted a few surefire applause lines from the final draft, including a poke at the press that began, "Breadlines may make headlines, but. . ." In order to shore up his sagging support among a wide variety of voting blocs,* he paid homage to the needs of different interest groups. For the restive New Right he asserted his fealty to the school-prayer amendment (but did not mention anti-abortion legislation); for women he pledged a reform of discriminatory federal laws and pension rules; for farmers he promised help with debt financing; for blacks he promised support...
...wanted to remind people of the lessons of the war, to make a link with the future," said Christina Cowger, a representative of the Boston Alliance Against Registration and the Draft, which sponsored the day of lecturex and exhibits. "We're trying to link Victnam with the future because the war taught us that the government can't fight an unpopular war if the citizens won't support it," she added...
Other lecturers discussed the draft, the U.S. government's policies during and after the war, and the war's social effects, especially for veterans. The speakers included MIT linguist Noam Chomsky and Boston University sociology professor Michael Useem...