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...young men be to answer the President's call? After a preliminary count, the Selective Service System last week gave a tentative answer: 93% of those eligible-3,593,187 out of 3,880,000 -had registered at post offices by late last month. Selective Service Director Bernard Rostker stopped short of calling the sign-up a complete success but said: "I am not unhappy...
Indeed, he should not be. In 1973, when the draft had just ended but antiwar feeling still ran high, only 83% of those eligible registered within a month of when they were supposed to (five days after they turned 18). Morever, Rostker expects the eventual number of registrants this year to come close to the agency's goal of 98%. Later this month, the Selective Service System will begin to mail out letters of confirmation-no draft cards will be issued-to those who have signed up. The agency will then start trying to track down...
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...
...Rostker agrees heartily, adding that he hopes to continue signing up late-comers without the hassle of formal legal action. "We are in no hurry," he explains. "If there is someone out there who has not registered, we will go and get him." None of this personal courting will begin until after the last confirmation letter goes out in late November. At that time the SSS will urge those young men who did not receive a letter to sign...
...year Rostker promises a new "media blitz" to pump up the permanent registration program he will launch in Januray. "Things have gone smoothly: we have come in at below our cost estimate (about $2 per person). We are certainly better prepared militarily," concludes Rostker...