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...CHARLOTTE MULFORD Monroe, Conn...
CHARLES B. CORT West Hartford, Conn...
When it comes to outright draft dodging, as opposed to demonstrations, the authorities have little patience. In Hartford, Conn., Bookseller David Mitchell, 23, who had refused to report for induction and declared the U.S. "morally bankrupt and criminally liable" in Viet Nam, was given the maximum prison sentence of five years for draft evasion. In a New York City crackdown, 38 men, including several fathers and their draft-age sons, were indicted for participating in one of the biggest draft-dodging schemes ever. They had allegedly bought stolen Defense Department documents for as much as $5,000 each, falsified them...
...retrial in Hartford, Conn., last week, Mitchell's lawyers wanted to call a variety of witnesses, including a U.S. Navy pilot now a prisoner in North Viet Nam. Ho Chi Minh, it was said, would release him to testify. The defense also wanted to call government officials from Hanoi, Ralph Schoenman, a Brooklyn expatriate who is chief lieutenant of Bertrand Russell's "better-Red-than-dead" campaign in London, and Staughton Lynd, the Yale assistant professor of history who, like Schoenman, recently visited North Viet Nam (and last week brought suit in Washington to win back the passport...
Offers poured in from more than 40 cities, as close as suburban Greenwich, Conn, (where President Funston lives), and as distant as San Francisco, all eager to grab the nation's largest securities market. Even if the city calls off the tax increase, the exchange seems inclined to move at least part of its operation. With computers, such work as data processing, stock clearing, accounting and records storage can be located anywhere...