Word: ferber
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Michael K. Ferber, Spock trial defendant, stressed the difficulties of maintaining interest in non-violent resistence. "One of the consequences of living in this country is always following the novel. Two years ago the resistence movement was very big, but today the Weathermen are in fashion," Ferber said...
...increasing number of resisters has burdened the government with a backlog of draft refusal cases and slowed the judiciary process. Over 500 people in the Massachusetts district who refused induction since December have not yet been indicted," Ferber said...
...Ferber, citing figures from his forthcoming book on draft resistance during the '60's, which he is co-authoring with Staughton Lynd, said that twice as many people were indicted in 1968 as in the previous year, but only 18 per cent were convicted compared to 48 per cent...
...test year to see if the government would minimize convictions if the resisters were arrested in large groups. All those statistics show that though indictments increased, convictions fell appreciably," Ferber said...
...Ferber also pointed out that the number of deserters in the Armed Forces rose by 50 per cent last year to 75,000 men Most of these deserters go to Sweden or Canada, though many remain in Saigon, he said...