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Completely Irrevocable. Many of Johnson's critics could not bring themselves to believe that he was sincere. He might have "something up his sleeve," said Pediatrician Benjamin Spock. "I hope he means it," said retired Lieut. General James Gavin. "I'm afraid he doesn't, and that he would accept a fair draft." Many sophisticated Europeans suspected that Johnson hoped to duplicate the feat of Egypt's Nasser, who "quit" after the disastrous war with Israel in 1967 but was restored to power by popular demand. "Is this a false exit," wondered Paris' Le Monde, designed "to stop the rapid...
...January, Harvard refused to allow WGBH-TV to televise a Lowell Lecture Hall teach-in on the war in Vietnam arranged after Dr. Benjamin Spock, the Rev. William Sloan Coffin, Michael Ferber, a second-year graduate student, and two other men were indicted for conspiracy to help others evade the draft...
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...