Article: Dodging the draft.(The Providence Journal)

Byline: Philip Terzian

WASHINGTON _ U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel, a Democrat from Harlem, wants you for the U.S. Army. Actually, what he and his longtime colleague, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., desire is reinstatement of the draft. And the campaign is on: Over the weekend after new year's, Rangel made the rounds of the TV chat shows, published an op-ed piece in the New York Times, and this past week he and Congressman Conyers introduced legislation to revive the Selective Service System, moribund since 1973.

Of course, on anyone's list of things that won't happen anytime soon, a new draft is near the head. The Army doesn't want conscripts, the services are ...

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