Amending the Selective Service regulations to prescribe random selection

Signed by Richard Milhous Nixon on November 26, 1969.

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Amends EO 10001, September 17, 1948; EO 10202, January 12, 1951; EO 10292, September 25, 1951; EO 10659, February 15, 1956; EO 10735, October 17, 1957; EO 10984, January 5, 1962; EO 11098, March 14, 1963; EO 11119, September 10, 1963; EO 11241, August 26, 1965; EO 11360, June 30, 1967

Amended by EO 11527, April 23, 1970; EO 11537, June 16, 1970; EO 11563, September 26, 1970; EO 11606, July 10, 1971

Revoked by EO 12553, February 25, 1986

See Proc. 3945, November 26, 1969; Proc. 3989, June 16, 1970

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