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...presidential order to cut down on graduate school draft deferments is being prepared, Lieutenant General Lewis B. Hershey, draft director, said yesterday in Washington...
Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Hershey said the order should make it more difficult to push deferments into permanent exemptions. It is now fairly easy for graduate students to get through the 18 to 26 year-old draft age bracket on deferments and never be drafted...
...argue that this move would "make a mockery" of the administration's policy towards conscientious objectors. To be exempt from military duty a conscientious objector must be opposed to all wars. Many divinity students object to the war in Vietnam but are not opposed to war in general. If Hershey refuses them C.O. status, the students would prepare to face prison sentences rather than submit to the draft...
Honorary Harvard degrees go to Adam Clayton Powell ("he spoke his mind"), Gen. Wessiny Wessin ("he danced to distant drums"), and Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey ("he lived by the precepts of the prince of peace"). Richard Nixon, speaking in Fulton, Mo., accuses President Johnson of "shooting from...
Easily the liveliest septuagenarian in Government, Hershey also scoffed at the idea of the all-volunteer army. Most volunteers, he pointed out, only signed up "after they passed the Selective Service exam and it became apparent that Uncle Sam had some permanent interest in them." Hershey conceded that the draft was uncertain, but added, "I have some friends this week who found certainty-their obituaries were published in your papers." And for all its faults, the draft sure beats the way "George Washington had to spend most of his time looking for men-he had to arrange his schedule...