Word: draft
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Police arrested 169 anti-war demonstrators at three Newton draft boards yesterday, charging them with disorderly conduct...
Since President Nixon's announcement of his decision to invade Cambodia 17 days ago, more than 14,000 men have turned in their draft cards-exceeding the national total for the previous two years...
Federal law makes non-possession of a draft card punishable by five years in prison and or a $10,000 fine. But recent comments by government officials suggest that prosecution is unlikely...
...dialogue is merely specious; it is the attitudes that are openly corrupt. The film's war protester is Junkie Nick Filbert (Robert F. Lyons). To avoid the draft he woos a black woman with a large family, tries to flee to Canada, and attempts to convince an Army examiner that he is a raving queer. When none of the dodges work, he enlists in the Marines and becomes more gung-ho than John Wayne, only to slip back to his spaced-out civilian soul when he is pronounced psychologically unfit. The only implication left is that antiwar demonstrators...
Greetings, it may be recalled, was a freaky little low-budget comedy about college kids, the draft and politics that enjoyed some success a season or so ago. Much of it shot wide of the mark, but a few scenes (notably a satire on assassination investigators) hit close enough for Writer-Director Brian De Palma and Producer Charles Hirsch to be called "promising," and to get them a major distributor's financing for a sequel. Hi, Mom/!is the uneven result...