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Attacking the Justice Department's interpretation of the Selective Service law, Leonard Boudin, Spock's attorney, maintained that Congress never intended mere non-possession of a draft card to be a crime. Even if the regulations of Selective Service were violated, he continued, it would be "an extraordinary delegation of power to the Selective Service System" if every violation were considered a criminal...
...trial hearings opened in Boston yesterday in the case of Dr. Benjamin Spock, Yale chaplain the Rev. William Sloan Coffin Jr., and three others charged by the Federal government with conspiring to encourage draft resistance...
...five--Spock, Coffin, Ferber, Marcus Raskin, director of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C., and Mitchell Goodman '46, a writer--are charged with conspiring to counsel, aid, and abet men to refuse military service and to violate provisions of the Selective Service...
Although 1,000 demonstrators accompanied the five men to Post Office building on Jan. 29 for their arraignment, only a few television cameramen greeted them yesterday. The only remarkable event outside the courtroom resulted when a giant crane overturned on Congress St. during the hearing. Spock strolled over during the lunch recess to inspect the wreckage...
...possible for me, though medically deferred, to try to force prosecution individually, as did Dr. Spock and Rev. Coffin, or to leave the country. Unless and until I decide to take either of these courses, I feel I should not in the slightest encourage a student to face them. The decision to accept the alternatives to induction is a private and lonely one. The individual may have to spend five years of his life in prison or leave the country permanently. He may find little comfort in the thought that a large number of Harvard's Faculty believe he made...