Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Across the nation, "no issue in...memory had evoked the concern and discussion that monopolized life yesterday in American colleges," the Crimson reported on Wednesday, October 24, basing its assessment on a survey of campus newspaper editors. "Students were worried about the draft and thought war was very possible in the near future," the Crimson added...
...beginning of the summer, the Selective Service System estimated that some 8.4 million young men, 93 percent of those eligible, had registered for the draft. While claiming that figure showed high compliance, officials acknowledged that a still higher portion would have to sign up for the system to be equitable, and for routine enforcement to be feasible. So the federal government began to crack down...
Early in the day in Roanoke, Va., 150 people sang hymns and prayed under the American flag outside the federal courthouse. Then most filed inside to support their new-found hero, Enten Eller, 20, the first man to be tried for violating the 1980 draft-registration regulations. Eller, a member of the pacifist Church of the Brethren, offered no formal defense during the 3½ hour trial last week. "God called me not to register," he explained to District Court Judge James Turk...
...federal officials hope will strike the fear of Uncle Sam into young men who have failed to register. The drama in Roanoke can be traced to the aftermath of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, when President Jimmy Carter persuaded Congress to fund a registration system so that any subsequent draft could produce an army quickly. Candidate Ronald Reagan said he opposed the system, but once in office retained it on the grounds of "national safety." Under the law, males must report to a post office within 30 days before or after their 18th birthday and provide name, address, telephone number...
...Department is the first to admit that it is not likely to try all of them. "Our objective," Selective Service System Director Thomas Turnage told a House subcommittee last March, "is not to prosecute or to incarcerate, but to get them to register." Barry Lynn, the antiregistration president of Draft Action, maintains that the Government's goal "is really to silence religious and political dissenters against conscription, a tactic used in the Soviet Union routinely." Whatever the aim, the first targets were 160 men who, like Eller, wrote the Government to announce their refusal to register or who were...