Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paul Couming took sanctuary in the Paulist Center in Boston. His brief rise and fall as an erstwhile Movement hero was noted on the news-page of the CRIMSON at that time. When Couming took sanctuary on Monday, February 8, he faced fifteen years in prison for three draft violations. He stayed at the Center for almost two full days. At quarter to seven Wednesday morning, three Federal marshals came and took Couming off to jail...
...janitor's salary, joined VISTA after getting out of Boston Tech. He had his C.O., and a nice cushy alternative service in Newton-Wellesley Hospital, but he felt he was needed at Boston City, so he transferred. He was safe-but he responded to calls for more anti-draft action by turning in his cards. Where were all those people who call for revolution? Perhaps Che really is right...
...even as you write this, you realize that you too have failed. You wanted to show what this "draft evader" was like as a person, and you didn't. Instead, you used him to make your point. That is the trap of this game. And, very sadly, you have fallen right into...
Earlier he had created some derision for picking some of the numbers (264-272) in the nation's first draft lottery since the 1940's. He was on a Selective Service advisory committee at the time and was picked as the Massachusetts representative for the televised drawing in Washington. Picking such high numbers made him feel "pretty darn good," and he himself ended up with number 208. "I've had a lot of second thoughts, but I'd do it again," he said on Valentine...
According to Epps. the reasons people leave are divided into six categories-draft, personal, travel, study, financial, and "exotic". The "exit" reasons are those which do not fit into any other category...