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...handful of draft boards across the country have resigned since the Calley conviction, refusing to induct men who might, like Calley, be ordered to kill and later find themselves charged with murder. One board in central Massachusetts has announced that it will still perform most of its clerical duties but will not induct...

Author: By Jerry T. Nepom, | Title: Oh Calley, Poor Calley | 4/20/1971 | See Source »

Last January 28, President Nixon asked Congress for a two-year extension of his power to induct men into the armed forces. (This would be the first two-year extension since General Custer's time-all previous extensions have been for four years...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Day, | Title: Proposed Deferment Halt May Jeopardize Freshmen | 3/2/1971 | See Source »

...Nixon also asked Congress to limit to two years the extension of the Selective Service's authority to induct draftees. If this request is enacted, the Selective Service's power to draft men would end on July 1, 1973. Normally, Congress renews this authority for a full four years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nixon Proposes Program Which May Eliminate Draft | 1/29/1971 | See Source »

...procedures were often used to punish a wide variety of infractions -failing to report a change in address or marital status, for example. Delinquents faced immediate induction. When the war protests began, Selective Service Director Lewis Hershey (who will retire Feb. 16) reminded draft boards of their power to induct delinquents who failed to carry their draft cards. Were such procedures legal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: No Draft as Discipline | 2/9/1970 | See Source »

Nixon's draft plan, to induct 19-year-olds on the basis of a lottery based on their birth dates, has the unanimous approval of the House Armed Services Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REAL WORLD | 10/21/1969 | See Source »

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