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Graduate Students - The President retains discretionary authority to
defer graduate students who are studying in a field found to be necessary
to the preservation of national health, safety, or interest. The
President has announced he plans to limit deferments to those studying
in the fields of medicine and dentistry.
a. It is understood that the President will continue to defer any
man eligible for induction who is entering his second or subsequent
year of post-baccalaureate study without interruption on
1 October 1967, if his school certifies that he is satisfactorily
pursuing a full-time course of instruction leading to his degree;
but he will riot be deferred for a course of study leading to a
master's degree or the equivalent for a total of more than two
years, or for a course of study leading to a doctoral or professional
degree or the equivalent (or combination of master's
and doctoral degrees) for a total of more than four years.
b. Men deferred for graduate study will remain liable for train 4 ng
and service in the Armed Forces until the anniversary of their
35th birthday, except in cases of extreme hardship.
13. Steven Canby, Manpower Procurement, p. 3.
14. Ibid., p. 13.
15. Lawrence M. Baskir and William A. Strauss, Chance and Circumstance,
(New York: Knopf, 1978), p. 17.
16. National Advisory Comission Selective Service, In Pursuit of Equity,
p. 95.
17. Harvard Study Group "On The Draft," The Public Interest, No. 9, Fall
1967, p. 95.
18. These lobbies tended to be very effective. One academic, Leslie
Fiedler, commenting on the insulation of the academic community from
military service observed that he "had never known a single family
that had lost a son in Vietnam, or indeed, one with a son wounded,
missing in action, or held prisoner of war. And this despite the fact
that American casualties in Vietnam are already almost equal to those
of World War I. Nor am I alone in my strange plight;.. ." Saturday
Review, November 18, 1972.
19. Statement of Thomas D. Morris, US Assistant Secretary of Defense (Man
power) Before the House Committee on Armed Services, Report on DOD
Study of the Draft, June 30, 1966, p. 4.
20. Ibid., p. 5.
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