Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More than 250 demonstrators gathered yesterday at Boston's City Hall Plaza to protest measures to revive the draft. The House Military Personnel Subcommittee voted Monday to preliminarily adopt an amendment requiring the President to commence draft registration...
David Landau, spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), said yesterday the vote "was a signal that Congress is going to reinstitute draft registration," adding "you only register people if you're going to draft them...
Mashford's militia. Term of derision for recruits who have joined the government army since draft age was raised to 59 this year; Mashford's is a well-known Salisbury funeral home...
Members will draft proposals for change in sections next fall, and the reforms are likely to include increased supervision of sections by course heads...
Looking back, the one-time student activists can gauge their impact, and they are proud of it. Environmental concerns, the consumer movement, feminism, the 18-year-old vote, and the end of the draft are just some of the changes that the student movement at least helped to spawn. But many also see the conservatism rapidly encroaching on the country today, and find it frightening. They look with hope at the student coalitions arising on campuses today in response to nuclear power, corporate involvement in South Africa, the J.P. Stevens boycott and other issues. This new activism is still only...