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...Grand Hotel in Washington. "All I have to do is rewrap my gifts." Free meals, tickets, liquor and perfume also come from those eager for guest referrals. There is no doubt the job has growing clout. "We can basically make or break a restaurant," boasts Donna Eller at the Sheraton Grande in Los Angeles...
...registered for the draft this year, it concerns me that Enton Eller used the name of God to advocate civil disobedience. He should read God's instruction in Romans 13:1 from The Living Bible: "Obey the government, for God is the one who has put it there...
Early in the day in Roanoke, Va., 150 people sang hymns and prayed under the American flag outside the federal courthouse. Then most filed inside to support their new-found hero, Enten Eller, 20, the first man to be tried for violating the 1980 draft-registration regulations. Eller, a member of the pacifist Church of the Brethren, offered no formal defense during the 3½ hour trial last week. "God called me not to register," he explained to District Court Judge James Turk...
...Eller's stand won Turk's respect but not the case. After calling the defendant "an honorable person," Turk sentenced him to three years on probation and 250 hours of community service. The judge ruled that if he did not register within 90 days, he could face stiffer punishment, up to the law's maximum of a $10,000 fine and five years in prison. Back outside, Eller stood firm. Registering now, he told reporters, "would make a farce out of what I did before...
...them to register." Barry Lynn, the antiregistration president of Draft Action, maintains that the Government's goal "is really to silence religious and political dissenters against conscription, a tactic used in the Soviet Union routinely." Whatever the aim, the first targets were 160 men who, like Eller, wrote the Government to announce their refusal to register or who were turned in by disapproving neighbors. The Justice Department decided to move against the 70 on the list who were "most adamant" about not complying. By last week, five had been indicted. Said David Wayte, 21, who goes to trial...