Word: prisoner
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...young men touched a gas burner to their draft cards and reclassification notices on the steps of the South Boston Courthouse. Well publicized in advance by the students, the happening attracted a large gallery, including several FBI agents. For their draft resistance, three of the youths were sent to prison for up to three years; the fourth, David P. O'Brien, a 19-year-old Boston University freshman, was sentenced under the Federal Youth Correction Act to a stiff term of up to six years...
...possibility of civil disobedience when man's law counters God's. The government, of course, could not agree. Priesthood or no, both the Justice Department and the State of Maryland indicted the unruly Berrigans on counts-including sabotage, robbery and assault-that could send them to prison for 54 years. Pending trial, Daniel Berngan was allowed to go free on bail. But not Philip. At the time of the Catonsville caper, he was already awaiting sentence for raiding Baltimore's central draft board and pouring blood on its files. As a "possible danger to the community...
...capitalism and the viability of present political systems. The graduates insist that there is a need to fight injustices at home, not to "shoot peasants in Viet Nam"?an argument, of course, that is not the exclusive insight of youth. Some students have thus concluded that going to prison as a protest against the draft is a sacrificial act by which one "votes" his own concept of duty to country. Last week more than 100 Woodrow Wilson Fellows from across the nation said that they would not fight. As Stanford Senior Hugh West sees it: "Jail is where patriotism...
Died. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Philip Vian, 73, British naval hero, whose rescue of 300 seamen from the German prison ship Altmark in February 1940 was one of the few things Britons could cheer about that year; of a heart attack; in Newbury, England. After taking the destroyer Cossack into a Norwegian fiord at night, Vian put her alongside the Altmark, then led his men aboard, crying "The navy is here...
...redeeming social value- and he seemed to be challenging the Government to prove they did not. The Supreme Court answered the challenge by surprising Ginzburg with a new rule: his methods of advertising and distribution, said the court, made him guilty of peddling pornography. It upheld a five-year prison sentence, which Ginzburg is still trying to get reduced...