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Draft Reforms to
Achieve Equity
The Director of the Selective Service System today characterized President Nixon’s proposed draft reforms “as the steps likeliest to achieve real equity in our nation’s draft system.” A presidential message to the Congress released today requests a two-year extension of induction authorization. Presidential authority to end student deferments and divinity student exemptions, and the establishment of a uniform national call was also requested.
The abolition of undergraduate student deferments and a uniform national call first were advocated by the President in a message to the Congress, on April 23, 1970.
Dr. Tarr explained “that under current regulations which defer undergraduate students, those young men who have the cultural,
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