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Wedge in the Door. Along with draft-board ignorance of Selective Service regulations, the draftee often suffers from the fact that he has little recourse to the courts. He can get his classification reviewed by a higher draft board; but in order to get out of the draft-board system and into the federal courts, he is likely to find he must wait until he is actually called into military service. Once sworn in, he can file a habeas corpus action to get out; if he loses, he is already in uniform and stuck. If, like Muhammad Ali, he refuses...
...Boston trial is expected to drag on for several weeks, despite 85-year-old Judge Francis J. W. Ford's warnings to "get on with it." In another draft-related case, a Baltimore district court last week sentenced two pacifists to six years in federal prison and a third to three years for pouring duck blood on draft-board records. One of those sentenced to a six-year stretch was the Rev. Philip F. Berrigan, 44, a Roman Catholic priest...
...They are now suing in a District of Columbia federal court, which is not bound by the Second Circuit decision but will have to consider it. None of the Michigan draft-board demonstrators (or apparently any others) have yet been drafted...
...although the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard do not need draftees to maintain their force levels, the Army does: at a current draft rate of 9,000 men a month, 28% of the Army's 804,000-man enlisted personnel is drafted. More important, as McElroy pointed out, the omnipresent threat of selective service "stimulates" young men to volunteer for the service of their own choice. Says a Massachusetts draft-board official: "If the draft went off, all the recruiting services would be hard...
Strangely enough, those most affected seem to fret least about the apparent inequities of the peacetime draft. "I don't worry about the draft," says a Dallas high school student. "Why should I? There's no war." Says a Chicago draft-board official: "Most boys of draft age have never known a time when there was no draft.-They regard it as a part of their lives." And-Manny Celler & Co. to the contrary-for as long as the young men feel so, there are likely to be more numbers drawn in the long line of succession...