Word: hershey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LONG ago there were dreams of a summer in Chicago and all over. Tom Wicker was saying that hundreds of thousands would resist. General Hershey would not be able to get enough men, and maybe the war would end in that kind of glory. All of those thousands of college seniors and graduate students would build a strong movement for social change in this country...
...defense attorneys also attacked the indictment itself as impermissibly vague. By claiming the defendants took part in a nationwide draft resistance movement without specifying its nature, Taylor said, the Government could introduce "evidence of a con- spiracy to assassinate General Hershey and kidnap members of the draft boards." The indictment's vagueness, the defense lawyers said, made it impossible for the five men to know what evidence would be produced against them, or how to prepare to refute...
This prediction assumes that a large majority of the more than 225,000 graduating seniors recently made ineligible for further deferment by General Lewis B. Hershey's directive will prefer induction to enlistment because of the shorter period of service...
...meantime, the Council has discussed and tabled two important resolutions, even though the majority of its members clearly favored their adoption. One resolution asked for a ban on military recruiting here as long as General Hershey's "punishment" order remained in effect. The other asked Harvard to allow non-commercial television coverage of nearly all--not just politically "balanced"--news events...
Schwartz said yesterday, "the letter is unconstitutional and is in fact a secret memorandum sent to the selective service boards." To say that the letter is not an official directive, he continued, is to say that Gen. Hershey has no power over the selective system. This, Schwartz maintained, is absurd...