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Although administration approval for the Justice Department's prosecution program appeared to be a shift away from President Reagan's opposition to peacetime draft registration, which he expressed during the election campaign last year, a White House policy adviser said last week that the President has made no decision on the future of registration and is still strongly opposed to a draft...
...Reagan] has always been opposed to conscription," and recent reports of rising military recruiting rates "will only serve to reinforce his conviction that a draft is not the answer to our military problems," Douglas Bandow, special assistant to the President for policy development, said...
Several senior military officials, including Adm. Thomas B. Hayward, chief of naval operations, have publicly supported a resumption of the draft, and others have agreed privately that Reagan's plans for more than 200,000 new enlistees will require conscription...
Even though a draft does not appear imminent, Selective Service officials are continuing to prepare for a possible call-up and have just completed an 18-month, $4-million revitalization program. Preparations and improvements include...
...recruiting of local draft boards in all states, a process spokesmen said will be completed this month...