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Show Selective Service alters regulations, deferments Until the regulations on these policies are finalized local boards will not conduct personal appearances, ap-pearances, nor will the appeal boards, with the exception of the Presidential appeal board, hear appeals. However, local boards will continue to register, classify, and examine draftees. The Selective Service System has formally issued several regulation changes in draft policies that were proposed to the public last November. Changes include the termination of undergraduate deferments for those who were not eligible for deferments during the last quarter of the 1970-71 academic year, the establishment of a Uniform National Call system for issuing draft calls so that induction notices will be sent to all men with the same lottery. numbers at the same time, and the establishment establish-ment of classification 1-H as a "holding category" for those registrants not currently subject to active processing for induction. in-duction. Several sections of regulation 1 changes were withheld for further review. According to Selective Service Director Curtis W. Tarr, the public response to procedures : for appearances before local boards, for appeals to boards other than the presidential appeal board, and to the guidelines governing re-opening of classifications, was such that it . "warrants our careful re-evaluation re-evaluation of these policies." |
