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However, even if the planners' arguments and local political pressure created the drive for the review, they might not have overcome the bureaucratic impetus created by the DPW's decision of last May without outside help...
These four reforms will help to correct the most glaring inequity of what Elder calls the "idiotic" Selective Service laws--the fact that college seniors and first-year graduate students are eligible for the draft while other graduate students are not. This not only creates undue confusion in university admissions and scholarship offices, but also forces a student drafted after acceptance by a graduate school to reapply after serving his hitch in the army...
David F. Coffey and John E. Cupples, third-year Divinity students, have been given the money to work under the Rev. Harold R. Fraye, Chairman of the Massachusetts branch of the Clergymen Concerned about the War and pastor of the Eliot Church in Newton. They will help him to organize local elergy anti-war activities. Cupples initiated the week-old project and asked Fraye to join him because, Cupples said, "he is the most politically active clergyman" on Vietnam in Greater Boston...
Long hopes that the political action field work will help provide information on Congressional Legislation in which the church should become involved...
...King, who is engaged in a power struggle with junta leader Papadopoulos, recently asked the U.S. for a complete resumption of military aid. By complying with the King's personal request, the U.S. would undoubtedly help him to regain much control over the junta dominated Greek army. The action might even lead to the junta's downfall, since the army is dependent on U.S. (and NATO) funds, weapons, and spare parts...