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Pennington said that he expects to end up in jail if "the case is decided in the near future, but the Army is so inconsistent anyway that it's hard to tell if they'll even carry through with trying to induct me on Monday...
Shatterly said that if the Army chose to induct him immediately, despite his refusal to sign the oath, he would probably opt for either going to prison or leaving the country...
Brown and Marston were ordered to appear for induction last week. They took tests and waited around the base most of the afternoon until the Army, without explanation, told them to go home. "It looks like they are ready to try to induct them now," Hector said...
Neither of the students, however, were told by their boards that their reclassifications were the direct result of their participation in the Oct. 16 demonstration or of Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey's directive to induct students for "illegal" protests against the draft...
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...