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...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...
...first Dow demonstration, and it ignored them last week by shutting the door in their face at Massachusetts Hall. Soon, however, it will not be able to ignore the problem. If a coherent Draft Project is set up here, it will probably be an illegal organization (after the Spock tests). Then the University is going to be forced to say "yes" or "no" to harboring such an organization. That kind of confrontation cannot be avoided, and the decision will show quite a bit about Harvard's neutrality
...military acitons are unjustifiable on any grounds. Whether we blame our leaders or our own passive complicity, we are all "honorable murderers" or "serviceable villains" until we protest these actions. Each must choose his own individual form of protest, from a private non serviam to public support for Dr. Spock, Senator McCarthy, and other courageous men who have steadfastly opposed our present military policy. Sanford Gifford, M.D. Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Harvard medical School
Individual draft counselling is what the BDRG office originally was meant for. There are seven counsellors who confer with an average of 15 persons a day, six days a week. Before the recent Spock indictments, the number who requested advice was less than half that many. According to Hector, a majority of those who come in already have deferments lined up, and most of the rest of them find one through the counselling. "Only two have actually gone on to face induction," Hector said. "We usually never see a person more than once," he added...