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If you are a student between the ages of 20 and 25 and your lottery number is above 195, you may now escape the draft by changing your status to 1-A.
Curtis W. Tarr, national director of the Selective Service System, said Monday that registrants with numbers over 195 will not be drafted this year. He ordered all draft boards to accept rephysically fit and are not deferred for other reasons. When a student deferment runs out, the student is reclassified 1-A and placed in the pool for that year with his original lottery number.
Second Priority
Second priority registrants are those who were not drafted while in first priority. They are not called unless all
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