Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HAVEN, Conn.--Yale will provide additional financial aid to those students who lose federal money because they did not register for the draft. University President A Bartlett Giamatti announced last month. The Yale Daily News reported...
Last Wednesday a group of demonstrators and an audience of unruly students greeted the director of the Selective Service System as he spoke in defense of draft registration...
...followed NHL, news over the summer, you may have noticed a pro team interested in Fusco, too--the Colorado Rockies (now New Jersey Devils), picked him in the amateur draft and later traded his contract rights to the Hartford Whalers...
...into what the authors call the rigid authoritarian rebel": all of the protean's hang-ups, minus his respect for intellectual matters and his adherence to non-violent tactics. Total immersion in anti-war protest became inevitable after the huge U.S. troop deployments of 1965 and intensification of the draft, say Rothman and Lichter, and the New Left became a "carrier movement" for "irrationalism, spontaneous action [and] social disruption." In their view, style came to dominate content, and "the dynamic of escalating protest forced [young people] either to embrace all-out revolution by 'any means necessary' or to withdraw from...
Turnage dismissed the protestors and said that most draft-age citizens support registration "I do not see many eighteen year-olds protesting registration" he said...