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...Affairs Specialist Matthias Hoogen told the Bundestag that so many young men were counting themselves out that West Germany now has the highest rate of conscientious objection of any nation in the world. While only one out of every 750 men called for duty in the U.S. claim conscientious objector status and one out of 50 in Denmark, the figure for Germany is one out of 20. Last year alone, 11,789 youths sought C.O. status, including 3,456 who were already in uniform...
...classified as a conscientious objector, a man need not be a Quaker, a Mennonite, or a member of some other sect that opposes war as a matter of religious conviction. Instead, a federal law exempts from active military duty anyone who cannot serve because of "religious training and belief." In amending the law last year, Congress struck out the requirement that such a belief be "in a relation to a Supreme Being." In view of this, could an atheist-a person who expressly disavows faith in God -be excused as an objector...
Kroll told the court he has filed papers for a conscientious objector status. Should this appeal be accepted by a review board at Fort Devens, Zalkind explained, Kroll would either be discharged and assigned to alternative civilian duty, or assigned as a non-combatant medic in the army...
Conscientious Objector. By now, the boiling controversy has become an open struggle for power by the U.F.T., which fears that control of the schools is moving from the city's central board to local committees, and that the union is being weakened in the process. As he fights to protect his union, Albert Shanker is demonstrating that he is a shrewd and sophisticated student of the uses of power. A onetime Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at Columbia, he is an admirer of Elijah Jordan, an obscure American philosopher who argued that institutions, not individuals, mold a society...
...functions from an average of 15 to 500; he helped Socialist Norman Thomas draw a bigger crowd than either Tom Dewey or Harry Truman in the 1948 presidential campaign. He picketed Urbana's segregated movie houses and restaurants. A pacifist, he registered for a time as a conscientious objector...