Word: objectors
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Font wrote the Army 18 months later and applied for discharge as a conscientious objector, citing as his reasons the gross immorality of the war in Vietnam and his refusal to fight in it. He was the first graduate in the 168-year history of West Point to apply for C. O. status...
Worse Danger. As Marshall saw it, only the objector to all wars has "a claim that is distinct enough and intense enough to justify special status, while the objector to a particular war does not." Balancing competing interests, as the Supreme Court must, Marshall concluded that the national interest in respecting the conscientious claims of single war objectors is outweighed by the nation's need to raise armies and assure those who do serve that the Selective Service is impartial...
Lieutenant Louis P. Font, who transferred from the Kennedy School of Government to Fort Meade, Md., last year when his application for conscientious objector status was rejected, wants to leave the U. S. Army after a year of constant controversy at the Maryland base...
Eager to enter practice after ten years' training, most young doctors are not enthusiastic about a two-year tour in the armed forces. Many say they will do everything possible to avoid the draft. Some plan to apply for conscientious objector status. But the chances are that most will answer the call when it comes The Army offers doctors captains' commissions at salaries of nearly $1,000 a month. Those who decline the offer face a less pleasant alternative. They can be inducted anyway, sent through basic training, and then be assigned medical duties as privates...
Paul Couming had everything to lose. Long before it was popular, he was a conscientious objector. Long before it was cool, he, whose family scraped along on a janitor's salary, joined VISTA after getting out of Boston Tech. He had his C.O., and a nice cushy alternative service in Newton-Wellesley Hospital, but he felt he was needed at Boston City, so he transferred. He was safe-but he responded to calls for more anti-draft action by turning in his cards. Where were all those people who call for revolution? Perhaps Che really is right...