Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Gerald Ford announced his conditional amnesty program last month, draft evaders and deserters seemed to have only two choices: either submit to the Government's terms and face up to 24 months of "alternative service," or remain on the lam-fugitives at home or exiles abroad. In fact, there is also the option of fighting in the courts to win complete freedom. Last week the American Civil Liberties Union announced that it would help that fight by supplying full and free legal services to any evader or deserter...
...some cases, deserters and evaders could conceivably clear their names if their draft boards were guilty of practices that have been thrown out or modified in a number of recent court rulings. Among them...
...Supreme Court held that the beliefs of a conscientious objector need not be based on religion, as draft boards had required. One appeals court then ruled that any man who could show that he did not bother seeking C.O. status because of the religion rule may raise the claim retroactively...
...courts have said that draft boards had to give specific, cogent reasons for rejecting deferment applications. They were also required to consider formally claims of physical disability. Many boards did not do so, and men who can prove it can offer that as a legal defense...
...Supreme Court in 1969 ruled that it was "blatantly lawless" for draft boards to declare a man "delinquent" (and move him to the top of the list) for failure to comply with a Selective Service regulation. Men treated in that manner may also have a case...