Word: objectore
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...sophomore when he wrote The Strawberry Statement, a wry account of Columbia's 1968 student strike against the Viet Nam War. The book's instant success transformed Kunen into one of the spokesmen for the rebels of his generation. Since then, Kunen, now 37, has served as a conscientious objector, worked as a public defender in the Washington court system, been married and divorced. Now a senior writer at PEOPLE magazine, he was asked by TIME to comment on what has happened to him and his protesting peers of the '60s who now seem to have quietly joined the Establishment...
...Iglesia, a new Catholic newsletter. Then just hours before the speech, government agents closed the magazine's office and seized its printing equipment. Apparently the publication offended the Sandinistas because it carried a letter from Cardinal Obando y Bravo defending the right of seminary students to adopt conscientious objector status. In September the Sandinista army drafted eleven seminarians despite a tacit understanding that men in training for the priesthood could be exempted from the draft...
...Inside of His Head. Tarzan does not live in sin, he was married to Jane by her father, a minister. Poet Robert Lowell twice tried to enlist in the armed forces; both times he was rejected. By the time he was called up, Lowell had become a conscientious objector...
SCARED also to distribute information about how to become a conscientious objector and may lobby the state through the Boston Alliance for Registration and the Draft, a city wide organization
William Sutherland, South Africa representative for the American Friends Service Committee, said he was in a jail cell when he "Found his identify " For being a consciences objector in World War ll. Sutherland was sentenced to four years in prison-twice the term of any previous offender. "I have become convinced that there can be no social or political change anywhere unless people take direct action, without that, nothing happens, "Sutherland said...