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...College's Administrative Board does not intend to discipline members of the Committee on Central America (COCA) for publishing and distributing fake draft cards, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III said in an interview last night...
Group members delivered about 900 facsimile draft cards bearing a forged signature of Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) to undergraduate males last week. "You are hereby ordered for induction to the Armed Forces of the United States, for service in El Salvador," the notice read, asking students to appear at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School...
...would seem that the publication of the draft material is protected under the rights of freedom of expression," Epps said...
COCA's other main objective is to work with the people of Central America for social and political change. Thus, when we learned on Thursday of the slayings of six Jesuit priests by the U.S.-backed Salvadoran military, we postponed the teach-in. Although the draft cards were already sent, COCA felt it was more important to join in the nationwide effort to pressure Congress into calling for an immediate end to U.S. military aid to EI Salvador...
Bates suggests that COCA's intent in sending the draft cards was to "generate hysteria" over a "highly improbable U.S. war in the region." For the record, The New York Times reported yesterday that U.S. pilots were flying night-time bombing missions over San Salvador. In addition, the 55 United States military advisors in EI Salvador are presently engaging in combat, and U.S. warships have moved to EI Salvador's coast...