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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With variations, the drama was played in college dormitories and homes throughout the U.S. last week as, one by one, members of the Selective Service System's Youth Advisory Committee walked to the giant fishbowl and drew out small plastic capsules containing 366 dates. That drawing was followed by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Draft: The Luck of the Draw | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

Not all were willing to accept the luck of the draw. While a few talked of flight to Canada and some of seeking exemptions on physical or psychological grounds, most searched for alternatives to the draft. A few planned to seek conscientious-objector status; some expected to enlist in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Draft: The Luck of the Draw | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

WARILY, yet with a trace of hope, the two opposing power blocs in Europe probed each other last week, seeking out possible areas of cooperation. In Brussels, the foreign and defense ministers of the 15 NATO members were gathered for their annual review. In Moscow, the political leaders of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: EUROPE: A TIME OF TESTING FOR THE POWER BLOCS | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

Unlike the situation in years past, the prime order of business at the two meetings was not to raise more divisions or discuss new weaponry. The conferences were held against a backdrop of recent improvements in East-West relations, caused chiefly by the start of the U.S.-Soviet arms-limitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: EUROPE: A TIME OF TESTING FOR THE POWER BLOCS | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

The U.S., however, is extremely wary. NATO's acceptance of the invitation, said U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers, would put public pressure on the member nations to attend even if there were no prospect for concrete results. "What does the Soviet Union want to achieve by proposing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: EUROPE: A TIME OF TESTING FOR THE POWER BLOCS | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

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