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...procedures were often used to punish a wide variety of infractions -failing to report a change in address or marital status, for example. Delinquents faced immediate induction. When the war protests began, Selective Service Director Lewis Hershey (who will retire Feb. 16) reminded draft boards of their power to induct delinquents who failed to carry their draft cards. Were such procedures legal...
Gowon seemed to agree. To punish those who had aided Biafra during the war, he barred any aid from several agencies and nations. "Let them keep their blood money," he declared angrily. "Let them keep their bloody relief supplies." Nigeria's chief was particularly annoyed with Pope Paul VI, who told a crowd in St. Peter's Square that "the victory of arms may carry with it the killing of numberless people. There are those who actually fear a kind of genocide." Gowon, whose tactics for three years have been designed to limit casualties, bristled at the reference...
...Supreme Court has ruled that Selective Service boards cannot punish draft-law violators by accelerating their induction...
Yale knew what it was doing when it allowed Jack Langer to go to Israel, and it knew that the NCAA would punish it for violating a rule that had been made clear long before the Maceabiah games took place. But they did it anyway and now Yale, as seems to be the custom nowadays, wants "anisette." Well, they won't get it. because there are enough sensible schools left in the NCAA to insure that college athletics remains what it always has been- well regulated, and within the best traditions of amateurism...
...changed their own position innumerable times." Griflin said. "They said they would accept a percentage [of blacks in the Boston area] arrived at by a legitimate organization," he said. "When the organization we recommended said 18-20 per cent. it was no longer legitimate. Now they're going to punish us, and ignore the percentage...