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...democracy, we need a few reality checkpoints at which we all crowd together, nabob and yahoo, and rub elbows and get a clue about who lives here other than us. The draft-board physical used to be such a checkpoint, where even a Rockefeller had to spread them and bend over, but that's gone, a casualty of Vietnam. The older generation that went through all those checkpoints--Central High, the cafeteria, the Army, the train station--those folks learned to stand in line and accept their place in the picture, and they learned decency and kindness. I can remember...
...attend university at all, Poeck moved into engineering and an eventual partnership in a consulting firm. He spent several years working in Asia and Africa, where he thinks he can contribute more than at home. Dieter Klussmeyer studied law on his way to the civil service post of district draft-board chief in his hometown. Only Werner Marker, an ophthalmologist, and Klaus Giersiepen, a lawyer, were certain of their career plans...
Painting a broader perspective, Conservative Republican Hogan recalled the days of antiwar protest when bombs were erupting on college campuses and draft-board offices were burglarized. Most of those protesters, he said, "felt that because their cause was just... they were above the law. They had long hair and beards and dressed as nonconformists and desecrated the flag. Inside the White House at the same time, there was another group of men who wore well-tailored business suits, close-cropped hair, no beards and wore flag pins in their lapels... They believed that the Viet Nam War was justified... They...
...charge have usually been put on probation. But when Berrigan and Sister Elizabeth came up for sentencing last week, Federal Court Judge R. Dixon Herman gave the priest a Draconian two years in prison-to run concurrently with the six years he is serving for his role in draft-board raids in 1967 and 1968. Judge Herman sentenced Sister Elizabeth to a year and a day in jail...
...Allows potential draftees to present witnesses and demand written reports on adverse draft-board rulings. It also requires that the composition of draft boards reflect the racial and ethnic composition of their communities...