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Registration for the draft has once again made headlines, due to the attempts of the Justice Department to prosecute several vocal non-registrant. And radicals on campus have endeavored to generate widespread student opposition to opposition, unsuccessfully, one might add. The recent dismissal of charges against David Alan Wayte, a former Yale student, for refusing to register, has raised the hopes of registration opponents that draft registration has failed in the courtroom and its legality is in question...
...Wayte's attorneys that he was selectively prosecuted because of his public outcry against registration, hence that he was being selectively discriminated against by the Justice Department because he was exercising his First Amendment right to free speech. The legality, the constitutionality, of an enforceable registration for the draft is beyond question. Constitutional law is clear on this point...
...most difficult issue in the draft was a statement on the morality of nuclear deterrence. Here the bishops took their guidance from a message by John Paul to a United Nations General Assembly disarmament session last June. The Pope had written: "Under present conditions, 'deterrence' based on equilibrium-certainly not as an end in itself but as a stage on the way to progressive disarmament-can still be judged morally acceptable. However, to ensure peace it is indispensable not to be content with a minimum which is always fraught with a real danger of explosion." The question facing...
...Security Adviser William Clark, a Catholic layman. In an open letter to Bernardin, he said that the White House agreed with the Pope's stand and, indeed, with much of what the bishops were saying. But Clark said that he and President Reagan were "especially troubled" that the draft ignored American proposals "on achieving steep reductions in nuclear arsenals, on reducing conventional forces and, through a variety of verification and confidence-building measures, on further reducing the risks of war." Clark noted that the Soviets had mounted a huge arms buildup during the past decade when...
Beginning work in July 1981, the Bernardin committee held 14 hearings and heard from 36 witnesses, including Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and his predecessor, Harold Brown, SALT Negotiator Gerard Smith, as well as theologians, Bible scholars, physicians and peace protesters. Bernardin sent a copy of the first draft of the committee's report to the Pope, who is said to have approved...