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Louis Negre, a gardener in Bakersfield, Calif., is a French immigrant whose family came to the U.S. partly because of their opposition to French involvement in Viet Nam. Negre, 23, said no to the military only after completing basic training and receiving orders to Viet Nam, by which time he was sure that he could not in good conscience fight there. A devout Roman Catholic, he sought a court-ordered discharge from the Army on the ground that Catholic theology permits a distinction between just and unjust wars. "Each Catholic," he argued, "must form his own conscience in respect...
...Court made the decision after hearing the cases of Guy P. Gillette of Yonkers, N. Y. and Louis A. Negre of Bakersfield, Calif. Gillette is a self-described humanist and Negre is a Roman Catholic who based his opposition to the Indochina war specifically on religious training...
Something is not quite right even at the state's cushiest "correctional facilities" (bureaucratese for prisons), some of which could pass for prep schools. At no-walls Tehachapi, near Bakersfield, inmates can keep pianos in their unbarred rooms, get weekend passes and join their wives at "motels" on the lush green premises. Yet Tehachapi is full of repeaters, prison-dependent men who soon violate their paroles and return...
...subject to the approval of the Federal Communications Commission and the directors of both corporations, calls for a price of $80.1 million. It includes AM and FM radio and VHF TV stations in Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Denver and San Diego, in addition to a UHF TV station in Bakersfield, Calif. (It does not include any of Time Inc.'s community antenna television franchises and operating systems, or its minority holdings in foreign broadcasting companies...
...boss, R.K. Procunier, California Director of Corrections, to audition the Sparrows. Procunier liked them so much he started crying. Since then, Sonny and the Sparrows-a chorus of 45 or more and a 15-man band-have made the rounds of the prisons, taped a television show in Bakersfield, played at high schools and colleges, Air Force bases, conventions, even a county fair...