Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Friday and Saturday. Nightshade is a feminist group; they play folk and country-rock. Tickets are $3.00, sold 10:00 am--4:00 pm in the building ten lobby at MIT. Friday night's proceeds go to Sojurner, a women's newspaper, Saturday night's to Vietnam as reconstruction...
...JANUARY 21, the day following his inauguration, President Jimmy Carter fulfilled one of his major campaign promises by issuing a blanket pardon to all those who had peacefully refused to register for the draft or be inducted into the armed services during the Vietnam War. By granting the pardon Carter hoped to bring America's tragic Vietnam experience to an end. Unfortunately, the pardon, while a step in the right direction, does not go nearly far enough...
...Moreover, while the majority of those eligible for pardons are middle-class whites, a disproportionately large number of deserters are members of disadvantaged minority groups. Many of these people simply lacked the information or financial means to evade the draft. Any government action to heal the scars caused by Vietnam surely must include these men. It should also cover those who participated in non-violent acts such as the destruction of selective service files in an attempt to stop American involvement...
Carter's program has been criticized because it fails to recognize that there was a war in Vietnam "before we recognized that it was a war," the spokesman said...
Estimates on the number of draft resisters included in Carter's program range from 10,000 to 20,000, the spokesman said. The program does not include the more than 100,000 Vietnam war veterans who received less than honorable discharges...