Word: sss
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Things at the SSS have been pretty quiet since 1973, when they stopped registering young men for the draft and fired 6900 of the department agency's 7000 employees. But since President Carter woke up to the Soviet threat--and decided that registering people for the draft not only would show the Kremlin what "grave consequences" await it but also might grab him a few primary votes--the people at SSS, all 78 of them who work in the Washington office, have been pretty busy. After all, it's not every day that you gear...
...understand protesting the draft," says SSS spokesman Joan Lamb as she revolves in her chair, "but not registration." Lamb, who has been touring the area talking to college students, says she can't comprehend how young people make the connection between registration and the actual process of induction. Lamb smiles. She studied Russian history in college and understands the nuances of Soviet expansion. She also has a son who is draft...
...year old men for the draft on to the federal budget. But the federal budget is having troubles of its own and so they changed their minds, reasoning that they'd just effect a transfer of sorts and move the needed cash from the Department of Defense to the SSS. At the very least, they said, the SSS would require about $4.7 million to build itself a computerized system so when Armaggedon begins, we can all be there to watch...
Some of Whitten's colleagues are predicting that, when and if they start to induct, as many as half those drafted will go c.o. (conscientious objector). It won't be easy to go c.o., Joan Lamb tells me back at the SSS, and the draft will be different this time around. No student deferments; the only people that are going to miss this one are those in or studying for the ministry and the real objectors--who will have to go work in some kind of socially redeeming job. "Don't worry," Lamb soothes. "If you're in college...
...committee is expected either to approve the transfer of the full amount from the Department of Defense to the Selective Service System (SSS), or to recommend a transfer of only $4.7 million--enough to upgrade SSS computer facilities and to ready the bureaucracy in case mass registration is necessary...