Word: wars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longer even knows how many eligible men are in the prime 18-to-26 age group, or where they reside. Registering, classifying and sending the first draftee to basic training would take 110 days, and by that time the Soviets might have scored major victories in a European ground war...
...modern political tragedies-Viet Nam and Watergate. It came in many forms. There was Richard Nixon's audacious attempt to fool 70 million television viewers about his role in the political scandal, and there was Lyndon Johnson's budgetary sleight of hand to disguise $10 billion in war costs. In between there were fibs and fudges, convenient losses of memory, tampering with records, feigned confusion and phony definitions of words and phrases. One way or another, it was all designed to obscure the truth. One way or another, it was all done in the name of the greater...
During the late stages of the Viet Nam War, military conscription was so despised by so many Americans that it spawned a new class of nonviolent criminals: young men who tore up draft cards or fled to Canada or Sweden to avoid induction. Since then, the U.S. has shifted to an all-volunteer force, and no one has been called up since 1972. But last week Congress reluctantly was again considering reinstating the draft, or at least some of its preliminary steps...
...composed of men who have completed their active duty but are subject to quick call-up, is supposed to number 700,000, but actually has fewer than 200,000. That shortage could be critical. The IRR would supply replacements for soldiers killed or wounded in the early weeks of war, and, as the Arab-Israeli clash in 1973 proved, modern weapons can cause heavy casualties at a fearsome rate...
...adulation is being converted into cash: only six days after Connally announced his candidacy, he met the requirements for federal campaign-matching funds by receiving donations of $5,000 or more in 20 states. His war chest bulges with $1.25 million in contributions, more than Reagan has collected. Far more volunteers are trying to board Connally's bandwagon than his underorganized staff can absorb...