Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among the groups joining in the call for tonight's meeting are the following: the Moratorium, Student Mobilization. Freshman Council, Faculty Anti-War Group. Adams and Dunster House Committees, SDS, NAC, YPSL, Young Dems, Ecology Coalition, Free University, Student Bar Association, the Committee for Legal Research on the Draft, the Advocate, the Lampoon, the Signet Society, and the CRIMSON...
Thus last week, two of Christianity's happiest conspirators were separated, Philip Berrigan in a federal prison and Daniel Berrigan, for the moment at least, in hiding. Both had been scheduled to begin their sentences April 9 for draft board raids at Baltimore and Catonsville.* Both had decided, in Daniel Berrigan's words, "to resist this automatic claim on our persons" and to make at least one more public appearance before being jailed to protest the Viet Nam War, racism and the oppression of the poor...
Five hundred students sat down in a main Schenectady, N. Y., intersection after demonstrating at Union College, a General Motors plant, and a draft board...
...past few years, teaching has been one of the major ways for Harvard seniors to avoid the draft. Fox said that in the Class of '67. only 24 men became teachers but the Class of '69 produced 138 teachers. He termed those seniors "borderline cases" who have already written their local boards but who are not actively engaged in teaching or another deferrable occupation...
Everyone. fights in the war-and they fight because they want to, not because they have to: it is truly impossible for an Israeli to conceive of the draft resistance movement in this country. Men serve for three years when they are 18, women for two years. The men then serve in the reserves until they are 55. During their reserve duty, which ranges from a few weeks to more than a month per year, depending on what skills are needed, they participate in the war and some of them fight...