Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week; the Thursday Group, including C.I.A. Boss Helms, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Wheeler, Nitze, and several others who meet regularly in Under Secretary of State Nicholas deB. Katzenbach's office; and the Eleven O'Clock Group, mostly lower-level officials assigned to draft the policymakers' decisions. Among all these officials, few supported the bombing of the North up to the end. The swing man, inclined first one way, then the other, was Lyndon B. Johnson...
Though the South Vietnamese army and police have some 7,700 female volunteers in staff and clerical jobs, a proposal to draft women outright was turned down: such a measure would cripple the country's economy. Of the city of Saigon's labor force of 330,000, fully 250,000 are women. They work as construction hands, substitute for men in manpower-short professions, own or run most of the capital's jewelry, clothing and tailoring shops, its restaurants and bars and some of its largest businesses. Nguyen Duy Thu Luong, for example, owns pharmaceutical laboratories, directs...
Three workers from the Boston Draft Resistance Group, including one Radcliffe student, were tried yesteray morning in the Massachusetts Superior Court for trespassing while talking to servicemen in the Greyhound Bus Terminal in Boston last summer...
Over the last two weeks, student radicals have mobilized behind three major issues which are expected to reach a climax this week. In conjunction with the national SDS "Strike Back," the Wisconsin SDS and Draft Resistance Union (WDRU) are planning to march on the Capitol building tonight and return to the Student Union, where they hope to control the building through the night...
...said that the deserters with whom he talked realized they made a big mistake when they stepped forward for draft induction. The deserters advised youths facing the draft to refuse induction, Cox said...