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...Johnson will decide the fate of this year's 550,000 male college graduates and first-year graduate students. The instrument of his decision will be the draft, and the problems it faces him with are complex. He will have to decide which graduate students to defer whether to induct the oldest or the youngest first, and how to select the 300,000 draftees from an eligible pool of more than one million. Neither official nor unofficial Washington knows what the President will decide, but there are already some clear indications of what to expect...
Gerald A. Berlin, president of the Massachusetts chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, remarked yesterday that to induct demonstrators is "clearly to use the selective service process as a form of punishment." Berlin deplored what he called Hershey's recommendation that the draft boards "take justice into their own hands...
Base officials tried to obstruct his leafleting, Israel said. "One sergeant ran along behnid me and grabbed the leaflet from people before they could read it." He also claimed they threatened to induct him immediately if he did not stop agitating...
...Viet Nam has swelled to more than 65,000, complaints have risen in the U.S. about unfairness in the system by which young men are selected for, or exempted from, military service. There is considerable grumbling about the fact that local draft boards, under the current system, tend to induct poor boys, Negroes and school dropouts, while sparing richer or brainier youngsters. Many Americans feel uneasy-and the draftee may feel downright angry-that the 971,000 active reservists and National Guardsmen are exempted from extended military service for the price of a brief training period and periodic home drills...
...some of whom believe that turning 25 is the outer limit of human obsolescence. The Youth Cult misleads them into thinking that license is freedom, that untutored whims are tastes, and that ever-jittering motions are deeds. Since it is the specific problem and task of middle-agers to induct the promising young into the society of civilized men, it might be a boon to all generations to begin by debunking the stultifying Youth Cult...