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...Harvard draft-resister flunked his pre-induction physical at Boston Army Base last Friday, and another refused to sign the security oath...
Smith said last night that the Army doctors had given him no reason for his failure to pass the physical. Shetterly said that after he refused to sign the oath U.S. Army Intelligence officials finger-printed him and questioned him for four hours. The officials threatened to investigate him, he said, and warned him that an investigation would ruin his career prospects in this country...
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...
Harvard students Shetterly and Smith said they plan to refuse induction when they are ordered, but today they will only be asked to sign a security oath. They said they will refuse to sign, but expect the Army to take no action...
When broad constitutional questions have been put before the Supreme Judicial court in the last few years, it has usually been careful to avoid them. When, for example, it tossed out the Massachusetts Teachers' Loyalty Oath, it did so on narrow grounds which verged on the ridiculous. Now the Court has demonstrated a willingness to tackle major issues of constitutionality, and the change, if in fact it proves to be a change, is a refreshing...