Word: drafted
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Members of the Boston-area Central American Solidarity Association and the Boston Draft Resistance Coalition--co-sponsors of yesterday's demonstration--said protests are planned all over the country this week and will continue if the government begins prosecuting non-registrants...
Yesterday's protesters sang traditional anti-war songs and chanted familiar slogans such as "No draft, no war; U.S. out of El Salvador...
...PAPER, President Reagan's decision to extend draft registration was the "sharp policy reversal" the headlines screamed about. Even the White House agreed, arguing that a practical need for registration overwhelmed Reagan's long-standing opposition to the program. Though it may seem like a case of the idealogue bowing to pragmatism, we are anything but reassured by the president's decision. The circumstances surrounding the announcement indicate that complex motives were involved, that the Administration is clumsily trying to conceal these motives, and that the continuation of registration could lead to a far more serious step: resumption...
Jimmy Carter revived draft registration to express American concern over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Two years later, it's clear how much the step improved life in Kabul. Candidate Ronald Reagan predicted as much, calling the sign-up a meaningless gesture and taking the debate one step further: "Perhaps the most fundamental objection to draft registration is moral." Last week, President Ronald Reagan regretted to inform us that military realities had forced him to break his promise on abolishing registration. He had new information from his blue-ribbon manpower task force: registration would save six weeks in a potential...
...opposition to draft registration is based on practical concerns. We oppose the program because it is--to borrow a line from one of Reagan's three-by-five cards--an empty symbol. It will not deter the Russians, or anyone else, from doing anything, and it only helps buttress the assumption that the answer to geopolitical friction is military action. Moreover, registration does nothing to improve the Pentagon's legitimate manpower deficiency in the existing reserve forces; and those are the divisions which would respond initially to a crisis. In addition, registration has already made federal criminals...