Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Anti-draft activists in Boston and across the country yesterday held protests in response to the first federal indictment of a young man for failure to register for the draft...
Members of the Boston Draft Resistance Committee, including a local public resister, organized a small press conference at the Arlington St. Church to condemn the draft registration program and its enforcement as the first steps toward a draft...
...addition to the protests. Draft Action is helping the ACLUmobilize a legal challenge to the enforcement of the Selective Service Act. "We want to gum up the process," Lynn said, adding that the procedure is "infested with constitutional and legal problems...
Opponents of registration often argue that this process almost certainly will lead to an actual draft, but army reports released last weekend stated that some of the pressure for mandatory conscription has been relieved. Helped by the recession and pay raises, the armed servicesboasted the most successful recruitment drive since the draft ended...
While Caldicott volunteered no explanation for this discrepancy. Dr.Bernard Lown, a Harvard professor and the president of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War said that self interest has traditionally motivated campus activism. Referring to the 1960s peace protests, Lown said. "The moment the draft stopped, the anti-warmovement began to abate...