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...form, which was issued formally today for citizen comment, has been circulated unofficially by the Selective Service System (SSS) for two weeks among church groups. Included in the new form are 27 questions on the applicant's religious, moral, and political beliefs and affiliations, instead of the four questions posed by the former application...
...form "comes damn close to establishing a state religion." Thomas Benedict, a second year Divinity student said Monday. Sixteen students and one faculty member have sent a letter attacking the form to Curtis W. Tarr, director of the SSS...
Despite what the SSS would have us believe, you still can't. All the variable will still have their influence. The new lottery, m???. Nixon, eliminates all kinds of irregularities. It rectifies elitism and discrimination in favor of the rich and the students...
...lottery. Nixon says, gives us a good indication of our chances for induction. Ever concerned with our psychic well-being the SSS has "reduced" to one year our liability and has tipped its hand on how badly it wants us. But the fine print effectively destroys any new sense of security. Any board can proceed as far down the date-ranking as it chooses. And if you do manage to escape your year of prime liability, you are shuffled into a "secondary pool" of eligible I-A's until age 26 (35 if you've held a student deferment since...
...lottery ushered in at least one change, if only an impressionistic one. It has nothing to do with the policies of conscription or resistance. The SSS has pushed their denial of our human autonomy to the logical extreme by ranking us as numbers in what is clearly a Game. The United States is now using the same method to decide the future of human beings that the Rotary Club used to pick winners of color T.V's. that the B'nai B'rith uses to name sponsors of trees in Israel...