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...other developments, Countryman is distributing to law schools a letter by the American Civil Liberties Union on Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey's recent directive...
...letter reads in part: "This is not the first time that General Hershey has sought to misuse the draft law to make it serve as a possible reprisal against students protesting our involvement in the Vietnam war. A previous attempt was blocked by court order...
...reason for this change is that without graduate deferments under the "oldest-first" system, nearly two-thirds of the men drafted starting in June would be between 22 and 25. And in the words of Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey, "the older men are no damn good." The army considers them less malleable, less physically able, and less receptive to training and the military system in general than the more desirable 19-year-olds...
...born on one of a number of arbitrarily selected dates in each month. This would involve drafting at one time men born on the same dates in all 12 months, not just those born at certain times of the year or months. When shown this plan, General Hershey said it was clearly random, violated the oldest-first dictum, and would very clearly be declared illegal by Congress. Don Gifford '60, Kennedy's aide and draft expert, disagreed. The issue remains to be settled...
Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas, speaking off the bench, describes Hershey as "a law unto himself [who] responds only to his own conversation." The National Student Association-which has urged an end to on-campus harassment of recruiters-last week filed suit in Washington demanding an injunction against enforcement of the Hershey edict. And even though Hershey at week's end softened his threat by absolving "lawful protesters" from priority call-up, to many ordinary Americans it seemed peculiar that the man who describes military duty as a "privilege" should extend it to those he seeks to punish...