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...volunteer American counterpart, one incapable of responding efficiently to the Communist threat. Despite this frightening description and the public's gradual shift toward a more bellicose outlook as problems in the Near East continued to smolder, no one was 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...
...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 of the registrants announced they were complying under protest...
...only men. In addition to the sexual discrimination case before the high court (which stems from a suit filed in Penn-sylvania nine years ago) the ACLU has taken the government to Federal District Court in Washington on an alleged violation of the Privacy Act. Landau explains that the SSS did not follow the specific procedures for "incorporation by reference" in its collection of registrants' social security numbers. Saying that the ACLU is very optimistic about both encounters, Landau adds, "No one will buy the erroneous assertion that the defense system will fall apart without registration," and that, particularly...
...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...
Presumably, hold-outs will be referred to the Justice Department. Bob Mills, a staff member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, insists that the confusion over Justice's enforcement responsibilities must be straightened out sooner rather than later. Legislation for future registration will require that the SSS explain to Congress just how it and the Justice Department plan to discipline those who signed up late, or who never signed up at all. "The implication is that there are a lot of felons out there, and a lot of people around here are wondering what will happen to them." Generally, though, Mills...