Word: draft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DEREK C. BOK, Dean of the Law School, joined a panel in his home town. Belmont, to discuss the Moratorium, the draft, and questions of legitimate dissent. Bok spent the morning preparing for the three-hour panel session in the afternoon. Then he returned to the Law School to meet with his regular 4-6 p.m. class. At the request of his students-half of whom wanted the normal class to go on, and half wanting to join the Moratorium-Bok agreed to hold a class yester-day and a special make-up class next week...
...Pittsfield, unknown persons set fire to the local draft board offices, destroying a number of Selective Service records. The state fire marshal's office and the FBI were called in to head an investigation of the blaze...
...draft law denies to the registrant fundamental safeguards of due process," such as the right to counsel before local draft boards...
...draft law is too complex to be properly understood by the registrant or to be properly administered by the local draft boards. Therefore, the lawyers concluded, "a significant proportion of the draftees presently serving in Viet Nam do so under induction orders which were unlawfully issued...
...Robert H. Johnson '61, Chairman and Executive Director, respectively, of the Boston Selective Service Lawyers Panel and attorneys for Harvard students who were arrested in University Hall last April; and Michael Haroz, a third-year Harvard law student and coordinator of the Committee for Legal Research on the Draft, participated ?n the press conference and gave their support to the lawyers' statement...