Word: antidraft
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Love has fled the Hashbury. Although antidraft hipsters recently held an amorous assembly knee-deep in a pool by city hall, love has been replaced by cynical commercialism, loneliness and fear, sporadic brutality and growing militance. Parks Superintendent Frank Foehr calls the current crop of flower children "a different element-young hoodlums." Once they loved blossoms; now, Foehr says, they come to Golden Gate Park to "put garbage in Albert Lake and break the rhododendrons." Infected communal needles boost the already soaring viral-hepatitis rate. Free stores and communal kitchens are not in evidence; now the tourist is lured...
...addition, Ford denied motions for bills of particulars--elaborations of the charges against the defendants. Although defense attorneys had argued in two days of hearings last week that the indictment was too vague, particularly in its allusion to a nationwide antidraft program, Ford said in a brief statement that the government had already furnished the defense with enough information to enable it to prepare its case...
...membership criteria, the Union has alienated no one-but neither has it attracted anyone. It remains an amorphous body, which has acquitted itself well in the limited area of draft counselling, but which has left its more important work-the creation of a unified and politically effective antidraft movement, still...
...married last week in a ceremony that was as much a demonstration of dissent as a plighting of troth. The lucky man was David Harris, 22, ex-president of the Stanford student body who, like his bride, did time in jail after participating in last winter's antidraft demonstrations in Oakland; Harris is also under indictment for refusing induction into the armed forces...
...then announced that he was giving his $1,000 prize to an antidraft group, and chided the assembled publishers for paying their taxes. He even found an ally of sorts in Jonathan Kozol, the 31-year-old former Boston schoolteacher, author of the winner in science, philosophy and religion, Death at an Early Age. Kozol said that he was giving his $1,000 to the ghetto workers of Boston. That left the others with nothing to do but accept their various prizes: George F. Kennan for his Memoirs: 1925-1950, Edna and Howard Hong for their translation of Kierkegaard...