Word: draft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...study of the small but growing number of young men whose angry opposition to the Viet Nam war and bitter disillusionment with U.S. society have led to self-exile and the familiar chant, "Hell no, we won't go." Correspondent George Page gives a report on draft resisters in Canada, Sweden and the U.S. in an effort to evaluate the severe implications of their civil disobedience...
Harold Krents, the totally blind Harvard Law School student who was reclassified 1-A last week, has been told by his local draft board that his case is being reconsidered...
Krents said that another reason could be behind his draft board's change of mind. An entertainer in his spare time, he wrote a musical letter to General Hershey to the tune of "Old Smokey," in which he insists that Hershey would have to come with him to Vietnam...
...that he will probably miss out on being a bombardier, Krents has been thinking of alternate plans for the future. "I understand that the Chicago White Sox, following the policy of complete equality demonstrated by my draft board, have decided to offer me a contract as a pitcher," he said...
...look" of the situation gave Thomson some difficult moments earlier this month. "I decided not to sign the CRIMSON advertisement," Thomson said, referring to a two-page Faculty Statement in support of draft resisters, "because of the March 31 speech. It struck me that it was inappropriate at a time when the government is on a 'peace' track to offer encouragement for those who are attempting to resist that government. I found that a very difficult decision to make...