Word: draft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conference: "Let these arrests be made in churches and synagogues, that this country can see that the nation is now engaged in actions which are in violation of individual conscience." Soon after the film was shown at the court house, U.S. marshals dragged Robert A. Talmanson, 21, a convicted draft evader, from Boston's Arlington Street Unitarian-Universalist Church. A bloody melee ensued outside the church. Talmanson had gone to the church for sanctuary, an ancient tradition not legally recognized...
...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...
...painter in England, now at Manhattan's Bernard Black Gallery. Since the drawings are mostly landscapes or sketches for larger compositions, the gallery placed them, wherever possible, next to a photocopy of the finished work. The demonstration is plain: as West's ideas progressed from initial draft to finished sketch to final oil, faces froze, bodies puffed out. The muscular athlete in the initial sketch becomes, on canvas, a wooden Greek soldier. In almost every case, West was at his best when he stuck to his least...
...also the address of the University of California in Los Angeles. The magazine tries to fight for the right with the New Left's own tactics; despite its name, its appearance is hip, its art psychedelic. Only the message is different: against free love and drugs, for the draft and the war in Viet Nam. One article draws a parallel between the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939 and the current alliance of New Leftists and black militants; another charges that the rash of violence on U.S. campuses is Communist-inspired and part of "Mickey Mao's trap...
...Give the local federal court a list of lawyers willing to defend Selective Service clients who are unable to pay. The Federal Criminal Justice Act of 1964 provides for such assistance, but the court now chooses from a list which does not necessarily include lawyers interested or experienced in draft work...