Word: spock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Starting on a serious note with what he admitted to be his major concern today--the draft--Pike reiterated his advice to students to oppose the draft if their consciences so dictated.. He asked to be included in the conspiracy indictment with Dr. Benjamin Spock and William Sloane Coffin...
...long staged their own reprisals against enemies foreign and domestic, as in their refusal in 1964 to load U.S. wheat onto Russian-bound freighters. Now Dr. Benjamin Specie, 64, baby doctor and Viet Nam dissenter, has felt the fury of their wrath. Dock workers in Manhattan disdained to haul Spock's new 35-ft. ketch Carapace aboard the freighter Atlantic Clipper, headed for the Virgin Islands, where Spock has a winter home. Carapace's builders announced that they would sail the boat to the Caribbean themselves...
...Union is wisely attempting to remain within the law--obscure as the law is on the question of conspiracy. To avoid an indictment like the one issued to the Spock five last January, Union organizers have so far been unwilling to make specific statements about the purpose of the Union, or about the kinds of people who can feel comfortable associating with...
...Civil Liberties Legal Defense Fund, which originated late in January, was sparked by the indictments of the Spock five on charges of conspiring to promote draft resistance. The Fund seeks to "insure that the claims of conscience have a full opportunity to be heard and tested," Rosenthal said. "It is not the work of the Fund to judge the legality of the positions that the resisters have taken...
Rather than limiting concern to the case of the Spock defendants, the Cambridge-based organization aims "to raise funds for the legal defense of the many other conscientious resisters and their supporters...