Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Judge challenges draft sign...
While nearly 9 million young men have registered for the draft as required by the law that took effect on July 21, 1980, roughly 470,000 have neglected to do so. This has created a dilemma for the Justice Department. The cost of prose cuting such a multitude would prove exorbitant. But failure to take action in a systematic way leaves the Government open to the charge that it may be acting in an unconstitutional manner when selecting those it does prosecute. Last week a federal judge in California threw out the Government's case against one non-registrant...
...judge's first reason was a technicality, but a sweeping one: President Jimmy Carter, ruled the judge, waited only 21 days instead of the required 30 to start the program after the new regulations were printed in the Federal Register. If this ruling is sustained on appeal, the draft registration might have to be initiated all over again, requiring those who have already signed up to do so once more...
Hatter also dismissed the case on the grounds that Wayte had been selected for prosecution because he had so openly opposed the registration law. Noting that all the men indicted for non registration as of last week had publicly identified themselves as draft resisters or had been described as such by acquaintances, Hatter said that Wayte was being punished for exercising his constitutional right of free speech. Finally, Hatter said, both the White House and the Justice Department had failed to produce documents and testimony demanded by the defense that would reveal just how the indicted men had been selected...
...document under discussion was the draft of a pastoral letter, addressed to 51 million American Catholics, on the morality of nuclear war. In it, the bishops are seeking to develop a theology of peace that challenges some of the fundamental assumptions and defense strategies of every American Administration, and most of the Western world, since the beginning of the nuclear age. The bishops' key attack is on the doctrine of nuclear deterrence. They acknowledge that the U.S. threat to use nuclear arms in response to a Soviet assault might prevent the outbreak of war, but they nonetheless conclude that...