Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Twenty-two anti-draft protestors, arrested for "idle and disorderly conduct" while demonstrating Saturday in front of a post office on Mt. Auburn St., yesterday entered a plea of "not guilty" at their arraignment...
...demonstrators - most of whom are members of the Boston Alliance Against registration and the Draft (BAARD)--clapped and laughed several times during the arraignment at the Middlesex County Court Building and court guards repeatedly threatened to kick members out of the room. The first warning came when one protester at first refused to stand up as Judge Lawrence Feloni entered the courtroom. When the group loudly hissed at Joseph Mlot-Mroz, a demonstrator who was not part of BAARD but carried an anti-Israel placard at the protest, they were again admonished by court officials...
...reality of migration of jobs and people and says Government should help those who can't make the shift on their own. A new land of opportunity has opened up, and we should give poor people a chance to share in this opportunity." The report is only a draft, but already a hurricane seems to be brewing...
After considerable kicking and shoving, the 22 protesters arrested in Saturday's demonstration against draft registration were carted off by Cambridge police for perfunctory processing and formal charging. The activists paid $5 each to a bail bondsman and left the Central Square police station by mid-afternoon. Most will probably get a lecture and six months' probation...
...groups have muttered discontentedly about the various Marxist groups that tag along with the crowd and condemn all of American society along with registration. "We don't seek their support, but many fringe groups are attracted to us," Frank Broadhead, director of the Boston Alliance Against Registration and the Draft, said earlier in the week...