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...that Arnheiter was too zealous. Operations Officer William T. Generous, a bespectacled lieutenant who had undergone psychiatric treatment before Arnheiter's accession, resented the fantail services; a Catholic, he considered them a Protestant imposition, and at Hardy's suggestion wrote a letter of complaint to a Catholic chaplain. Gunnery Officer Luis G. Belmonte, another lieutenant, took umbrage when Arnheiter asked him to wade fully clothed into the water off Waikiki to shoot a picture of the skipper and his visiting wife in an outrigger. Belmonte began keeping a "Marcus Mad Log" of Arnheiter's actions and came...
...eight resisters handed in their draft cards at a service conducted by Yale chaplain William Sloan Coffin, who took their cards and 272 others collected at the same time to Washington on March...
...Buckley substance is forgiven for the Buckley style. "He is as brilliant an adversary as he is bankrupt an advocate," says Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr. To M.I.T. Political Science Professor Lincoln P. Bloomfield, "he is an exceedingly witty, attractive and rather insidious spokesman for a point of view for which I have few sympathies. But if we don't want to die of sheer boredom, the Buckleys should be encouraged." Buckley offers his own well-considered self-analysis: "I feel I qualify spiritually and philosophically as a conservative, but temperamentally I am not of the breed...
...burning at which 67 men ignited their cards with a candlestick once owned by William Ellery Channing, the 19th century Unitarian divine and Thoreauvian advocate of civil disobedience, who wrote: "Our first duties are not to our country. We belong first to God and next to our race." Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin, a longtime activist who has marched against Southern white racism as well as the war, conceded that many latter-day dissenters disown any religion but upheld their moral right to resist the draft laws...
...service will include Buddhist prayers, readings from Ghandi and Martin Luther King, and the handing in of an anticipated large number of draft cards, according to Ferber. Dr. William Sloan Coflin, chaplain to Yale University and a leader in the anti-draft movement, will deliver the main address of the service...