Word: antidraft
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Antidraft groups, which had been predicting widespread noncompliance, were unconvinced by the Selective Service's figures. Said Barry Lynn, head of CARD (Committee Against Registration and the Draft): "I'm not going to call Rostker a liar. I am going to say I'm very, very skeptical." Lynn called for an independent audit of the count, perhaps by Congress's General Accounting Office. It was a challenge that Rostker gladly picked...
...post offices were getting ready to receive the first wave of a tide of 4 million initial registrants-all male citizens and resident aliens born in 1960 and 1961-the signup foes won what could prove to be a short-lived victory in the courts. Ruling on an antidraft suit originally brought by four anti-Viet Nam youths in 1971, two years before induction was ended, a panel of three federal judges in Philadelphia "permanently enjoined" the Government from requiring anyone to register with Selective Service...
...lonely, personal decision, and you have to face the fact that you may end up in jail," Judge told 150 students who gathered in the Science Center for an antidraft teach-in last night...
...similarities to the antidraft protests of the Viet Nam War years were only on the surface. For one thing, the draft card was a facsimile; nobody could find the genuine article, which the Government stopped issuing in 1976. For another, the protesters were outnumbered by students who had gathered near by to be entertained by a mime and a punk-rock group. And on the fringes of the antidraft crowd, Joseph Taylor, a black graduate student in psychology, voiced a view that would hardly have been heard at Berkeley during the Viet Nam War. Said he: "This is a sincere...