Draft discussed
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Peace corps unaffected
Will President Johnson's proposed Selective Service revision affect the Peace Corps, whose volunteers are usually deferred from the draft during their two years' service abroad?
Probably not much, said two visiting Peace Corps representatives, Mike Riley and Steve Carter.
Carter and Riley, past Corps volunteers now on campus for Peace Corps Week, said President Johnson's proposals in his draft message to Congress last Monday, will probably not affect the attitude of students volunteering for Corps service. Neither, they said, will it affect the draft status of Corps workers when they return to the U.S.
CAPTER SAID, "I don't foresee any change in the number of men applying (for Feace Corps service) because I don't think there are that many joining to avoid the draft. Motives of volunteers are checked by the Corps and those who join only to avoid the draft won't get in."
Carter and Riley said membership in the Peace orps is not absolute guarantee of deferment from military obligation.
"The sugegstion came from Gen. Hershey, U. S. Selective Service director, that Peace orps workers be deferred for two years from military service," Riley said. "I don't think this will change under Johnson's plan because the contribution a Corps worker makes in his tw oyears is equal or superior to the contribution a soldier makes. Of course, it is
still too early to say what will happen."
RILEY SAID that the present power of local selective service boards is what determines the draft status of any Peace Corps worker, and that a change in Corps deferments would depend on whether or not local draft boards are revised or abolished, as President Johnson indicated might happen.
"Right now if you're from a local board which looks down on the Peace Corps, you've had it." Riley said. "But there is more of a favorable attitude toward the Corps on the local board level than unfavorable."
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