Word: sss
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...volunteer American counterpart, one incapable of responding efficiently to the Communist threat. Despite this frightening description and the public's gradual shift toward a more bellicose outlook as problems in the Near East continued to smolder, no one was certain that America's youth would cooperate with Carter. The SSS announced its version of the outcome last week: more than 93 per cent of the nearly four million eligible men had registered, and more were expected to do so in the near future. SSS Director Bernard D. Rostker humbly declared a triumph, saying, "I am not unhappy...
Even now, almost eight weeks after 3.6 million 19- and 20-year-old men surrendered their names, address and social security numbers to the Selective Service System (SSS), you cannot say for sure who won the initial skirmish over the issue of military registration. Both sides claim victory, but neither the government nor the leadership of the anti-registration forces expects to rest in the months ahead. Both camps are planning new assaults, priming fresh troops for the front lines. Cries of "We have not yet begun to fight" echo across the temporarily inactive battlefield...
...prefer "Canadian." Funny that, while I've been embroiled for two years in a futile effort to get an American social security number, most of my friends now wish they didn't have one. Or at least, wish they didn't have to surrender it to the menacingly acronymed SSS...
...Mills' opinion, is what the Justice Department plans to do about people who request alternate service or declare that they are "conscientious objectors." The bill the Senate is considering includes an amendment introduced by Hatfield, asking registrants to indicate whether they will seek conscientious objector status, and even SSS studies indicate that such figures could be high...
...January, the director of the SSS issued a report in which he concluded that premobilization registration was not only unnecessary, but fraught with technical and financial difficulties. Later that month, the president repudiated the report's findings by asking Congress to revive draft registration. Six months later, the president's call for registration seems to have posed many more dilemmas than it may solve. If congress this week approves the president's plan to begin registering 19- and 20-year-old men for the draft, the protests which follow that action may only be the start of the government...