Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Continuing in a statistical vein, he noted only one-tenth of one per cent of eligible Peace Corps men have had trouble with their draft boards. If that happens, said Vaughn, all the Corps officials--and in one case even the King of Nepal--write to the boards and General Hershey saying "you can't do that." This policy has been successful, he said...
...Council has split into subcommittees to investigate the University's relations to industry and government, the draft and military recruiting, the surrounding community, and students. Ideally, the subcommittees will report their findings to the full Council, and the full Council will take up the substantive issues that the subcommittees have been authorized to discuss...
Right now things can be done, whatever the protestor's depth of feeling against the war: draft resistance, obstructionist demonstrations, planning a reception for Dow at Harvard, working for McCarthy, canvassing neighborhoods. The fast, according to its leaders, is meant to prepare the fasters to act. This focus is inappropriate and anachronistic...
Kearney and Rep. John F. Melia (D.-Brighton) drew up the bill after last Oct. 16th's rally at the Arlington Street Church in which 280 draft cards were burned or turned in. Melia claimed yesterday that he decided to sponsor the bill when an irate parent complained that his daughter's professor had offered to excuse from classes any student who wished to participate in the demonstration...
Both he and Adams questioned whether burning draft cards is a crime. Adams defined civil disobedience as a means for expression of conscience against public policy and a way of focusing attention on an issue the individual feels should be studied...