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Who understands intramural sports? Maybe no one What are they? No one can be sure Call them "House athletics" asnd, oh yeah, now you've got the picture. Hyers on the breakfast table, sign-up posters on the bulletin board. House athletics: slightly amateurish, organized by House secretaries who with...
The government estimates tht 6.6 million young men have registered since July 1980, when President Jimmy Carter resumed the sign-up process that President Gerald Ford suspended in 1975.
More than 800,000 eligible young men have failed to register since former President Jimmy Carter reinstituted the sign-up program in July 1980, but the Selective Service has not yet begun a formal identification process to provide additional names to law enforcement officials.
Jimmy Carter revived draft registration to express American concern over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Two years later, it's clear how much the step improved life in Kabul. Candidate Ronald Reagan predicted as much, calling the sign-up a meaningless gesture and taking the debate one step further: "Perhaps...
Ranking Administration officials adamantly denied reports (already confirmed from sources within the White House) that the Polish crisis inspired Reagan's decision. But what of the on-the-record explanation? The Selective Service System, which administers registration, has insisted for almost a year that it initially underestimated how much time...