Word: hectors
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Members of the Resistance, like recently arraigned graduate student Michael Ferber, also work through the BDRG office. In fact, the only continuing Resistance activity, a Monday night dinner, is held at the home of Harold Hector, Jr., one of BDRG's three paid employees...
Individual draft counselling is what the BDRG office originally was meant for. There are seven counsellors who confer with an average of 15 persons a day, six days a week. Before the recent Spock indictments, the number who requested advice was less than half that many. According to Hector, a majority of those who come in already have deferments lined up, and most of the rest of them find one through the counselling. "Only two have actually gone on to face induction," Hector said. "We usually never see a person more than once," he added...
Because there is only one anti-draft office, and so much anti-draft opinion, an enormous speaking calendar is a patriotic duty that BDRG must perform. Neil Roberston, Hunt, Ferber, Hector, and Grizzard meet most of the requests for speakers on the draft...
Army officials at the base will have their hands full today. Two other members of the Boston Draft Resistance Group, Corey Brown and Howard Marston Jr., plan to refuse induction, Howard Hector a spokesman for the Resistance said last night...
Brown and Marston were ordered to appear for induction last week. They took tests and waited around the base most of the afternoon until the Army, without explanation, told them to go home. "It looks like they are ready to try to induct them now," Hector said...