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While some opponents of registration chide Rostker for covering for his boss in the White House, organizers such as David Landau '72, an American Civil Liberities Union attorney and the deputy director of CARD, have chosen to concentrate on what the government's figures mean, and on the prospects of halting the process before it leads to its logical end: a military draft...
...Landau points out that more than a quarter of a million young men signed up after the official two weeks had ended, and like them, many others carefully thought out their reasons for registering before heading for the post office. "We mounted a highly successful movement. Two years ago there was little thought about this. Now we have CARD, plus 400 anti-draft groups around the country. The movement is visible, and the connection between registration and the draft is visible," Landau says proudly. "We never insisted that people screw up their lives by committing a crime. We just wanted...
...Although Landau takes credit for helping postpone the draft "for at least a year instead of two months," he still fears that Congress may eventually push for formal induction. Preemptive maneuvers include a National Anti-Draft Week (October 12-18), complete with teach-ins and lectures, and a national CARD convention in late February somewhere in the Midwest. The group will organize a march on Washington in the spring if the registration program survives...
...here is where Landau warms to his favority subject--the possibility that by early next summer the Supreme Court will have ended the registration process because it includes only men. In addition to the sexual discrimination case before the high court (which stems from a suit filed in Penn-sylvania nine years ago) the ACLU has taken the government to Federal District Court in Washington on an alleged violation of the Privacy Act. Landau explains that the SSS did not follow the specific procedures for "incorporation by reference" in its collection of registrants' social security numbers. Saying that the ACLU...
Anti-registration/draft organizers in the Boston area echo Landau's continued enthusiasm. Joe Gerson, a Cambridge representative of the American Friends Service Committee, a national group that has worked with CARD to educate young people about registration, says the Friends will concentrate on minorities, particularly working-class Blacks, in their drive to disseminate information on the issue. "The white middle class is usually the target, but they often already know what is going on," says Gerson, adding that he will also include high school students in his counseling sessions...