Word: gerson
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...example of these internal policies can be seen in the Middle East, Joe Gerson, executive director of the New England AFS, said, adding that the Reagan Administration has "put the conflict into the context of a U.S.-Soviet battle, which just distracts attention from what is most important...
Anti-registration/draft organizers in the Boston area echo Landau's continued enthusiasm. Joe Gerson, a Cambridge representative of the American Friends Service Committee, a national group that has worked with CARD to educate young people about registration, says the Friends will concentrate on minorities, particularly working-class Blacks, in their drive to disseminate information on the issue. "The white middle class is usually the target, but they often already know what is going on," says Gerson, adding that he will also include high school students in his counseling sessions...
...emphasizes, however, that "the issue of the draft is hardly resolved--you don't just register for the fun of it. It would be rather naive to assume that this will not lead to something else." If a draft is proposed, Gerson says he believes it will be "eminently defeatable." "We have shown that there is resistance, and that people are thinking about the issue...