Word: pacifists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...July 29, 1967, 84 draft-age men had pledged not to register for the draft by signing a pledge circulated by the Peacemaker, a pacifist publication. The statement points out that signing alone can lead to five years in jail and/or a fine of $10,000. Most draft-age men register. What happens, happens after...
...member of the International Voluntary Services, a private peace corps (TIME, April 7), the dedicated pacifist spent nearly two years trying, as he once said, "to mitigate at least a small part of the horror to which the Vietnamese are subjected." So successful were his efforts that his 160 fellow I.V.S.ers in Viet Nam nominated him for Macalester College's distinguished-service award presented to young men who have contributed to international understanding...
...single occasion. U.S. Army headquarters in Heidelberg has persistently dismissed their claims, lists no more than 365 missing G.I.s since the late 1940s. In Japan, where the 36,000 American troops are regularly augmented by thousands of G.I.s on R & R (rest and recreation) from Viet Nam, pacifist and peace groups have had no better luck. Indeed, U.S. desertions worldwide, including the Viet Nam command, are running on a par with the Korean War (two per 1,000) and at a rate considerably lower than World...
Dandling a copy of his bestselling baby book on one knee, Dr. Benjamin Spock, 64, attempted to define himself before the television cameras in his Manhattan apartment. "I'm not a pacifist," declared the man who was once more concerned with diaper rash than diatribes. "I was very much for the war against Hitler and I supported the intervention in Korea. But in this war, we went in to steal Viet Nam." Spock's efforts to foil that imagined attempt at grand larceny led last week to his indictment by a federal Grand Jury on charges that could...
...They didn't take too kindly to the fact that I had caused all kinds of 'trouble' in high school and college and got arrested in Chester. I couldn't be religious and do that. Apparently, a religious guy just sits off in a corner and meditates. And a pacifist is a retiring sort, 'who resists not evil.' I think it's our business to resist evil...