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Slip Across. Though the customs man did not know it at the time, the driver was Ronald J. Anderson, 31, of Spokane, Wash., who had deserted from the U.S. Army almost six years earlier, after seeking classification as a conscientious objector, by escaping from the stockade at Fort Lewis, Wash. Now a resident of Mission, B.C., where he works as a carpenter, Anderson is classified as a landed immigrant by Canadian authorities and will become eligible to apply for Canadian citizenship next month. With him in the car were his wife Marion, 33, their 10-month-old son Trevor...
Accepting Responsibility As a conscientious objector in the '60s, I was placed in a hospital darkroom developing X rays for two years, working just above minimum wage. For the same cause, a close friend spent six months in prison, leaving his wife and one-year-old child alone...
Burghardt, the estranged son of an educator who is now president of a community college in Hartford, Conn., went to Deerfield Academy, then Rutgers, began acting in Shakespeare, later taught in the drama department at Antioch. His draft troubles began in 1966 when he applied for a conscientious-objector classification. His claim was rejected on grounds of insufficient "credibility and sincerity." The next year he was sentenced to five years (the average term is two years), but various appeals kept him out of prison until November...
Heck's decision could well place the Air Force in a difficult position. It may have to court-martial him, not something it relishes doing to a highly decorated pilot. Or it may accept his resignation or place him on conscientious objector status. But either course might encourage other pilots to follow suit. Heck's case may also prove a puzzle to President Nixon. In addition to two presidential unit citations, Heck also holds a diploma from Nixon's own alma mater, Whittier College. Last week Heck told TIME's Peter Simms: "This is the first...
...Nicholas Peck, running as an Independent this time after losing the Democratic nomination to Mahoney two years ago. Peck is a former reporter for the Boston Globe and a conscientious objector...