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...With all the hell I get," avers Lieut. General Lewis Blaine Hershey, "I have less power than most anybody else." A lot of draft-age Americans would be happier if that were so. In fact, the crusty Selective Service director in recent weeks has fought the U.S. Justice Department, the White House, and a large segment of Congress, the press, the academic world and the public to a standstill. For a man of 74 who is functionally blind,*Hershey seems as invulnerable as he is intractable...
Draconian Draftsmanship. The casus belli was posed by Hershey's celebrated letter of Oct. 26, advising the nation's 4,081 draft boards to induct any draftdeferred protester whose actions were not in the "national interest." The Justice Department, all too aware in 20th century terms of the legal trouble "delinquents" and their families could make, held that so clearly punitive a process seemed to be indefensible under the First Amendment. Hershey, however, is a 19th century man, unread in constitutional law but totally committed to what used to be called Americanism...
...Harvard Law School Faculty has formally asked the University to take what it termed "appropriate steps" to deal with Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey's recent directive on inducting war and draft protestors...
...resolution does not say what the Faculty would consider "appropriate steps." One law professor construed it to mean an official expression of concern about the directive from the Harvard Administration. Another said it implies an action similar to Columbia University's: barring military recruiters from campus until Hershey's directive is rescinded...
...issue was Hershey's letter to the nation's draft boards in October recommending that any student interfering "illegally" with draft processes or military recruiting be stripped of his II-S deferment and reclassified...