Word: cards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liquidating an increasingly obvious mistake not of their making; they must be concerned about the consequences of a U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam elsewhere in Asia and throughout the world; they must remember the fact that the U.S. has global responsibilities that cannot be torn up like a draft card. To Richard Nixon, the M-day protest must seem especially unfair. He has tried hard to settle the war, and he worked out a plan of de-escalation that earlier?say, in the last phase of the Johnson Administration?would have satisfied many war critics. He has at least succeeded...
Borrowing from the movies, the Seventies flicked still photos, Peter Max-like drawings, cartoons and flash-card words before the viewer's dazzled eyes. The music provided a highly subjective counterpoint: the Beatles' Happiness Is a Warm Gun accompanied battle scenes from Viet Nam; Peter, Paul and Mary's Blowin' in the Wind underscored film clips of student demonstrations. The overall theme was Pete Seeger's Turn, Turn, Turn. The program marked what might possibly be a new pattern for TV news documentaries: except for a final three-minute, 40-second sermon from David Brinkley...
First, while it is true these cards are accepted by a large number of businesses in the greater Boston area, it is also true that this very fact makes fraudulent use of the card much simpler. If one's new Coop card is lost or stolen, $100 worth of charges-the current personal liability limit under Massachusetts statutes-could be run up within a very short space of time. The answer of course, is that the same might be said of the old Coop card Except that it is immensely easier to amass fraudulent charges in several stores than...
...this case the defendants are tried under the traditional catch-all political repression charge of "conspiracy" for what are essentially their anti-government beliefs. The Conspiracy charged by the government was in effect the Resistance itself, and the five figurehead defendants were held responsible for the entire draft-card burning, induction-refusal movement. One assumes that the government could not tolerate the tremendous anti-war moral tide unless it could be boiled down to a conspiracy. That not one of the men knew another any more than in passing made no difference to the charge of conspiracy. Shared beliefs equal...
...horrible shadowy octopus, swallowed up the men and issues whole and forced on them a half-hearted legal defense. The story of the trial becomes almost absurd as we see Sloane Coffin's lawyer arguing that if his client did in fact aid and abet the burning of draft cards, this did not hinder Selective Service but help it, since all draft card violators were to be immediately reclassified as I-A meat on the hoof...