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...certain that America's youth would cooperate with Carter. The SSS announced its version of the outcome last week: more than 93 per cent of the nearly four million eligible men had registered, and more were expected to do so in the near future. SSS Director Bernard D. Rostker humbly declared a triumph, saying, "I am not unhappy...
...fast!" shouted many of the youthful activists who struggled all summer to hinder Rostker and his overworked crew of name-collectors. "The Selective Service is lying," says David Affler, a spokesman for the Boston Alliance Against Registration and the Draft, and one of the many protesters who claim that the government presented faulty figures. He says Rostker's numbers do not account for such variables as recent demographic changes and fraudulent registration cards, submitted by Michael Mouse, Donald Duck and others. After suggests that a more accurate estimation of the response to registration is 75 per cent, a figure...
...Rostker counters, "Our numbers are as hard as a rock. They have the anecdotes and the guesses. I have the cards and the numbers." Rostker, who claims that only a survey encompassing the entire country yields accurate registration statistics, gladly welcomed the General Accounting Office audit of his totals that Barry Lynn, head of the national Committee Against Registration and the Draft (CARD), proposed. The SSS chief adds that in an independent check of his own for phony signees, "We had a problem with fewer than one in every 1000 cards." He says that only 1.8 per cent...
While some opponents of registration chide Rostker for covering for his boss in the White House, organizers such as David Landau '72, an American Civil Liberities Union attorney and the deputy director of CARD, have chosen to concentrate on what the government's figures mean, and on the prospects of halting the process before it leads to its logical end: a military draft...