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Show Selective Service answers queries If the continuing responsibility, f under law, to use their dis- ; eretion to grant occupational 1 deferments, in individual cases, based on a showing of essential essen-tial community need. Question I began graduate study in September 1967 and am making mak-ing satisfactory progress. Will I be entitled to continued deferment de-ferment in 11-S for my second year of school next September? No. Uunder the advice of the National Security Council on February 16, 1968, deferment for graduate study was limited to registrants in medicine, dentistry, den-tistry, or an allied medical specialty, or those who had entered the second or subsequent subse-quent year of graduate study last fall. Under what authority does the National Security Council make recommendations o n graduate and occupational deferments? de-ferments? Who are members of the Council? Congress, by law, has directed direc-ted the National Security Council to advise the Director of Selective Service periodically concerning deferment of needed professional and scientific personnel per-sonnel and those in critical skills and other essential occupations. oc-cupations. Members of the Council are, President, Vice President, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, and Director Di-rector of the Office of Emergency Emer-gency Planning. Now that the National Security Se-curity Council has recommended recommend-ed that the lists of essential activities and critical occupations occupa-tions be suspended, is there a change in the authority for granting occupational deferments? defer-ments? No. Local draft boards have |