Word: objectore
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...Army lieutenant who was forced to leave the Kenuedy School of Government last year after applying for conscientious objector status is being investigated pending possible court-martial for disobeying orders...
...people indicted in the Boston area within the last four months by the Federal government for Selective Service violations. He faces possible sentences of five years each for non-possession of his classification card, and for leaving the alternative service to which he had been assigned as a conscientious objector...
...Viet Nam, the L.M.D.C. opened a three-man law office in Saigon headed by Henry Aronson, a leading civil rights lawyer who had been active in both Mississippi and New York. The Army indicated that it would cooperate. But soon after the L.M.D.C. represented three soldiers seeking conscientious-objector status (TIME, Nov. 23), Army cooperation vanished. A classified order directed all Army law offices in Viet Nam to submit monthly reports on L.M.D.C. activities-including "comments on compliance with ethical standards." Moreover, the Army refused to let the lawyers use military mail or phone systems and gave them the lowest...
Later that year (the academic year of the Bay of Pigs fiasco) I began to inquire about the nature of a conscientious objector status. Here began my second break with the posture of representative manhood. Ironically, after being granted a tentative conscientious-objector release from the Marine Officer Program. I decided to rejoin it. This return, however, did not represent a swing of a pendulum from a rebellious position back to a formerly rejected one. Rather, it was the end-product of my study of various radical and dissenting movements in American history, and a rejection on my part...
Ronnie, now 24, later chose not to join his father's "irrelevant" business, won a conscientious-objector status after a harrowing legal battle, and started writing a novel. Meantime, Willens experienced the even more intense grief of Michele, now 21, over the assassination of Robert Kennedy, for whom she had worked. When Michele also quit college, says Willens, "I decided that I had better get off my assets and not let my children become totally disbelieving." As a result, he supported McCarthy and helped organize a group called Business Executives Move for Viet Nam Peace, which partly financed last fall...