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...Howard Bennett, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Civil Rights, has proposed five immediate steps to curb the "dangerous increase in racial troubles" he has found in Europe and Vietnam. Bennett wants race relations instruction for every basic trainee. Instruction for every serviceman in the real meaning of black power signs - "a time for the black brothers and sisters to unite" and "work together" to "get into the mainstream of American life." Open forums where blacks and whites will discuss racial problems face to face. On-post social activities in which both black and white women from nearby communities will...
Viet Nam War Challenge. Finally, the court has been asked to rule on the legality of the Viet Nam War. Last spring the Massachusetts legislature passed a statute providing that no serviceman shall be required to serve in an overseas war that has not been declared by Congress; the state now seeks a declaration from the court that U.S. participation in the Viet Nam War is unconstitutional. If the court accepts the case, warned Justice Department attorneys last week, the Justices might conceivably be forced to set up their own military-affairs office, supervising troop withdrawals and dealing diplomatically with...
LAST WEEK, those who escaped the maze of cheap waterfront bars and pathetic serviceman clubs in South Boston, some of the older, "educated" enlisted men who made it across the Charles into Cambridge and liberated territory, roamed the Square and Commons in search of the people they knew would sympathize with their situation and help-by one means or another-ease the pain of their down existence...
...Presidio and Levy court-martials had to do with discipline and politics. Discipline is what the Service wants more than anything else from its men, and independent political thought is one of the gravest conceivable dangers to discipline. Not surprisingly, the Army gets paranoid as soon as a serviceman's politics drift left of far right. Levy, for instance, combined his questioning of the war effort with civil rights work in Mississippi. The Pesidio defendants had the bad luck of sitting in two days after a major west coast anti-war protest in October. 1968. Imagining some connection between...
Rallies and Fasts. There were other stirrings on the antiwar front. In Boston, Governor Francis Sargent signed a bizarre bill that had passed the Massachusetts legislature by respectable majorities. The law provides that no Massachusetts serviceman can be compelled to go to a foreign combat zone in the absence of a congressional declaration of war. Three servicemen promptly volunteered to test the new law, which is certain to make an odd footnote to American constitutional history...