Word: draft
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Last month the Soviets countered the U.S. proposal with a draft treaty dealing only with ABMs. Moscow's idea was to confine the ABMs to the vicinity of the two countries' capitals, limiting each network to about 100 missiles. The Soviets had a pretty good idea, however, that the U.S. would reject the treaty; President Nixon had said in February that the U.S. believed that any satisfactory SALT agreement should cover offensive as well as defensive weapons. The Soviets have made another demand that Washington considers totally unacceptable. They want all nuclear weapons systems capable of reaching Soviet...
...specialty of the island is the "gozomie," a marathon blast that is thrown when anyone reaches the end of his nine-month tour and goes home. Over the five-day Christmas holiday, the men consumed 500 quarts of liquor, 12,500 bottles of beer, and 2,000 pints of draft beer...
...only is it cheaper to "correct" military errants than to draft and train replacements, it is also easier. The vast majority of military prisoners are not criminals and would go free in a civilian setting. More than 75% of them are in for purely military offenses, such as absence without leave. Only an estimated 15% are accused of civilian-style felonies...
...phrase in the 1967 draft law reads: "No person shall be inducted for training and service in the Armed Forces after July 1, 1971, except persons now or hereafter deferred...
Other national Selective Service officials estimate that about 400,000 students will lose their deferments this summer. Of these, only those with lottery numbers below the present cutoff number, 126, can be drafted. Since about half of the men tested usually fail their physical examinations, there will still be between 60,000 and 70,000 former students who may be still draft--able when the old draft law lapses...