Word: objectore
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...LEARNED last week that the Harvard Personnel Office has refused the request of David Kelston, a Public Health School research assistant, that it "supervise" his work at Harvard as partial fulfillment of his alternate obligation as a I-O conscientious objector...
...almost military bearing contrasts with a career as a conscientious objector that goes back to World War II. "I could not fight against the master race theory of Hitler while we had it here at home." He got a deferment for theological studies, though he made clear his intentions to stay out of the ministry ("My draft board just didn't want to cause anyone any trouble...
...West Germany, the conscientious objector (or Kriegsdienstverweigerer) need not prove dogmatic pacifism; he must merely convince a local commission of civil servants that he is against the use of force between states. Some 70 chapters of the German War Resisters' League seek to foster that attitude. Aided by leftist student militants, the chapters have held thousands of parades in the last 14 months, lectured to schoolchildren and demonstrated at military shows...
...Bundestag debated the problem for most of its opening session, then voted by a large majority to require from every conscientious objector some form of alternate service-as male nurses, Red Cross helpers, gatekeepers or maintenance men. The deputies also called for swifter processes to muster out of uniform those objectors whose presence in the Bundeswehr might damage their fellow soldiers' morale...
...became the Dominican monk Brother Antoninus, under which name he now writes. Brother Antoninus writes about the book: "Its roots go back to the earth of the San Joaquin Valley, the substratum of my life, back to a happy marriage, inexorable incarceration in the Waldport Camp [a conscientious objector's prison], painful divorce, hopeful remarriage, and abrupt, disturbing separation-back to my love of nature and of woman, to a poetry of physical celebration and tortured sensuality; back, in a word to the 'residual years...