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From time to time. Suttler describes a shady tactic of evasion, and then ingenuously says, "However, since it is clearly illegal. . . it seems certain that no registrant would attempt it." Most of his prescriptions, however, are perfectly legal and should cause no twinges of conscience...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Books on the Draft Survival Manuals | 5/13/1970 | See Source »

...best tradition of American self-help, these loopholes are open mainly to those who come looking for them. As David Suttler points out time and again in IV-F , no one is so healthy that he cannot fail his draft physical. But woe to the co?? placent victim who assumes that the Army will do his work for him. Unless a draftee knows he's ?? and can prove it, the Army is not going to was?? any effort uncovering his malady...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Books on the Draft Survival Manuals | 5/13/1970 | See Source »

...Suttler's book, which is probably the closest thing to a how-to-escape-the-draft manual that can be legally published, does not stammer about its purpose. As Suttler says in the Introduction...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Books on the Draft Survival Manuals | 5/13/1970 | See Source »

What follows is a complete explanation of not only the flaws the Army finds worthy of rejection, but also the exact procedure that any potential, IV-F should follow to insure his safety. Suttler has done an outstanding job of depicting the grotesque world of the draft physical; the book makes delightful reading while it dispenses its advice...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Books on the Draft Survival Manuals | 5/13/1970 | See Source »

There is a qualm that may trouble those who successfully follow Suttler's or Tatum's advice: if the draft misses one person. it finds another to do its dirty work. The quick reply is that if you don't resist, you will be in uniform, killing and being killed; and there is no convincing evidence why that is any better than someone else doing...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Books on the Draft Survival Manuals | 5/13/1970 | See Source »

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