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...SSS does not pay for sit time. By law, radio and television stations are required an allot certain amount of air time to public service announcements...
...campaign hit the airwaves two months before SSS began sending out draft cards that can serve as proof of registration...
...indeed be the law. But it is also insidious--another way for the government to sidestep the problems it has faced so far in enforcing registration through appropriate channels. The Selective Service System (SSS) now numbers eligible men who have not registered at about 564,000; so far, it has indicted 12. And even those 12 have snarled the government in lawsuits and charges of discriminatory treatment, since the government has prosecuted only those non-registrants who turn themselves...
Defenders of the new policy concentrate their arguments on the idea that an individual who "does not accept the basic responsibility of a society ... has no claims to the benefits of that society," as Maj. Gen. Thomas K. Turnage, the SSS' director, has said. Characteristically, he and other Administration officials fail to focus on the practical effects of such a simple theoretical equation. Chief among these is the havoc it will wreak on educational choice, especially if some colleges follow through on hinted offers and provide their own aid to students rendered ineligible for federal assistance. While schools that...
Among the plans under consideration is a cross-checking of SSS files with those of various high schools, colleges and universities, an SSS spokesman said last week...