Word: tarr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President told Dan Rather, CBS correspondent, recently that he would consider amnesty only after all American POW's have been released. While this is a change from his former refusal to discuss the issue. Selective Service Director Curtis Tarr views the Pentagon's needs in a different light. He testified at Sen. Kennedy's judiciary subcommittee hearing on Feb. 28 that declaring a general amnesty now would wreck the draft system because it would give some "a free ride" and punish those who have submitted to the draft...
Selective Service Director Curtis Tarr said Friday that no personal appearances or appeals would be heard until new regulations were formulated. This action will halt the induction of all men eligible for appeal hearings until at least February...
...action, effective yesterday, resulted from criticisms that some proposed new rules are unfair. Tarr said that he will use time to re-evaluate his reclassification criteria...
Members of Congress had criticized the new rules proposed by Tarr last month, saying that the difficulties they imposed on men seeking deferments violated the spirit of the new draft law. They protested especially the time limits specified by the new rules...
Local boards will continue to register, classify and examine young men, Tarr said...