Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soon as a young man turns 18, he is required to register for the draft. But what if he does not do so within the five-day grace period provided by law? Although few people realize it, the Government has no official system for detecting the 18-year-olds who fail to register. Last week, a five-man majority of the Supreme Court decided that if the Government does not discover and prosecute a non-registrant for his dereliction within five years after the grace period ends, he cannot he prosecuted at all. The three dissenting Justices complained that even...
...could point out that at the end of the first act, the cast takes off its clothes. You've heard that before? It's still important. The strip scene occurs during the climax of a song Claude sings called "Where Do I Go?" He has just received his draft notice, burned his draft card, and he is now asking fiercely. "Is there an answer/in [lovers'] sweet faces/ that tells me why I live and die?" There is a rumble underneath the tarpaulin covering the stage below him. Heads poke out, and arms, waving, reaching. The Hair tribe is nude, facing...
According to the report, outside agitators were not significantly involved, and no new laws are necessary to prevent disruption. Marijuana laws should be relaxed, said the Commission, student participation increased and the voting age lowered. Last year Commission Chairman Charles D. Henderson, a Republican state assemblyman, helped to draft a law compelling laggard college authorities to maintain order and denounced S.D.S. as "Students for Demolishing Society." Last week his prologue to the report sounded a far calmer note. "While few may want to admit it," he wrote, "the dissent of youth may have done more for higher education than...
...Reeves, director of the National Council to Repeal the Draft, said last night that "there is a realistic chance of repealing the draft" in view of the wide-ranging agreement across the political spectrum on this issue...
...first issue, which will be distributed among college students in the Boston and Springfield areas, will include articles about the draft, the Middle East crisis, and federal conspiracy laws...