Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group of citizens, including one Harvard professor, has written a letter to 2000 members of the local draft boards in the Boston area, asking the members to resign their positions on the boards...
...letter represents the beginning of a campaign by the Boston Draft Resistance Group to publicize the operations of the draft boards. Along with the letter, BDRG released the names of all 200 members of draft boards in communities inside the area circumscribed...
Meanwhile, there is the problem of the draft. Of the four seniors on the crew, at least two have been reclassified 1-A, but they expect to win their appeals...
Elliott handed in his draft card at the October 16 Arlington Street Church Resistance Service. In January the freshman from St. Johnsbury, Vermont received a 1-A classification. Early April brought Elliott an induction notice...
...draft call for July was 15,000 and is set for 18,300 in August. September's quota has not been determined. Last spring, it was over 40,000 a month...