Word: drafted
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People who protest draft registration are protesting the wrong thing. A democratic army reduces the chance of war. Paid armies are the instrument of tyrants. The day Nixon ended the draft was the day this country started moving to the right. Now, Reagan says the secret bombing of Cambodia was wise. Protest the message, not the messenger. Richard Joffe
...same time, Weinberger steered clear of committing himself to specific defense policies; for example, he refused to say whether he backed the proposed mobile MX missile system or favored abolishing draft registration. Weinberger did, however, also aim a blast at the outgoing Administration. Refusing to endorse the Carter doctrine that the U.S. would go to war to protect its vital interests in the Persian Gulf, he charged that Carter's failure to consult with allies before proclaiming the doctrine was "extraordinarily clumsy and ill-advised...
Although the president-elect has promised to stop it, and the United States Supreme Court may yet declare it unconstitutional, draft registration began again last week...
Protesters organized by the Boston Alliance Against Registration and the Draft (BAARD) marched on post offices in Cambridge and Boston, clashing several times with police, who arrested a total of 44 people through last Saturday...
Most of the demonstrators were immediately arrested after they broke from the picket line, joined arms, and began chanting "Hug against the draft." Police then moved in immediately and shoved the protestors into a paddy wagon parked several feet away...