Word: draft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Irwin Miller, 58, of Columbus, Ind., a former head of the National Council of Churches and an archetype of the public-spirited businessman (he helped John F. Kennedy talk businessmen into opening public accommodations to Negroes after the 1963 Birmingham riots). Said Miller: "We are confident that a true draft will develop...
...feel so much better about myself," declared Mary Elizabeth, 21, explaining her starry-eyed dissent, which is echoed by her twin brother Tim's adamant refusal to accept either a student deferment or the draft. Uppermost in prompting her decision to renounce martial ways is her intense Roman Catholic faith; her horror of war was reinforced by the sight of Marines in boot camp at Parris Island, S.C., and "the lost look in their eyes...
...pain in the affluent society-in alienation, lack of communication, insincerity, mindless cocktail-hour chatter-but they succeed with these tattered themes by understating them rather than by reviling them. In Punky's Dilemma, in their latest album, Bookends, they even take up the subject of draft evasion, but gently, gently. The song begins innocently: "Wish I was a Kellogg's Cornflake floatin' in my bowl takin' movies/ Relaxin' awhile, livin' in style, talkin' to a raisin who 'casion'ly plays L.A." And it ends on a note of tolerant satire...
Boudin, too, insisted that no substantive crime had been alleged, and that the five were being prosecuted only for speech in the form of public opposition to the war and the draft...
...defense attorneys also attacked the indictment itself as impermissibly vague. By claiming the defendants took part in a nationwide draft resistance movement without specifying its nature, Taylor said, the Government could introduce "evidence of a con- spiracy to assassinate General Hershey and kidnap members of the draft boards." The indictment's vagueness, the defense lawyers said, made it impossible for the five men to know what evidence would be produced against them, or how to prepare to refute...