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Incongruous

At present, 88% of the combat
riflemen in South Vietnam are draftees.
A staggering one in every four
draftees is wounded in action and
the draftee fatality rate is twice
that for volunteers, who spend their
hitch swimming at Long Binh.
None of this information bodes
well for Selective Service.

The draft is deteriorating, all by
itself, with induction refusals in
Buffalo, Oakland, Chicago, and
Northern Alabama swamping local
prosecutors. In Oakland, where fully
half of the inductees never show
up, the Government is resorting to
mass prosecutions-up to 40 people
at once.

In January, Charlottesville Draft
Resistance activated a 'time bomb'
resistance tactic which may annihilate
Selective Service by New Year's
Day, a possibility admitted indirectly
by Curtis Tarr, National
S.S.Director, in a secret memo over
the summer.