Word: draft-board
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...events that led up to last week's indictments, the Berrigan circle?a very loosely organized group that numbers 50 to 100 militants ?had been discussing for more than a year various means to dramatize its opposition to the war. One tactic was a continuation of draft-board raids. Another approach was the kidnaping-bombing plan, which some in the circle objected to as violent. Others argued that neither kidnaping nor bombing constituted violence in a moral sense, since no person would be physically harmed. According to this account, because something more serious than burning draft records was involved...
...BERRIGANS. After being convicted for their 1967-68 draft-board raids in Baltimore and Catonsville, Md., the nation's most famous peace criminals. Fathers Daniel and Philip Berrigan, jumped bail and eluded FBI agents for weeks before their capture last year. Despite their confinement in the minimum-security federal prison at Danbury, Conn., the two Roman Catholic priests are still bucking the system. Daniel, 49, a Jesuit and poet, is serving a three-year sentence and working as a dental assistant. Philip, 47, a member of the Josephite fathers and a polemicist, is in for six years and doing...
...blend of jazz and gospel, with a glossy Stan Kenton sound and a chorus singing Sonny's simple lyrics-about peace and freedom, with a little protest thrown in. His career began in Cincinnati, where he wrote his first song before he was eight. Through a draft-board mix-up in 1943, Sonny was tapped for the Marines when he was only 14, got out, then served in the Navy from 1945 to 1948. By the time he was discharged, he had become a good clarinetist and saxophonist, as well as a good lightweight boxer. He settled in south...
...client's case in court, a lawyer usually has to find a draft-board error either in procedure or in interpretation of the law. In many instances, that search is not difficult. Some men have been drafted at a meeting of only two out of five members of a board; yet the law requires that no fewer than three be present. A San Francisco lawyer, Joel Shawn, 33, recently persuaded a federal judge to rule for his client because a majority of the draft-board members lived outside the district, a violation of the Selective Service rule that...
...scarcely above the Manhattan rooftops when the mob began pouring out of the decaying tenements on the Lower East Side-ragged, shouting, weaponed with sticks, iron bars and brickbats. By midmorning, the crowd had moved across Broadway, filled Eighth and Ninth Avenues, descended on the 47th Street Army draft-board headquarters and set it afire...