Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ROBERT TAFT...
...Advocate is pleased to sponsor the eight and final informal poetry reading tonight at 8 p.m. in the Advocate House, 21 South Street, Margo Taft and Richard Edleman will read from their works. The reading is free and refreshments will be served. Person interested in reading in the Spring series should contact Chris Fletcher...
...even be discussed until the war is over, other Democratic contenders, Senator George McGovern and New York's Mayor John Lindsay, have taken positions in direct opposition to Nixon. McGovern has announced that if he is elected, he will grant amnesty to all draft resisters (but, like Taft, he would not give it to deserters). Lindsay has taken a position similar to Taft's, though he would require two, rather than three years of work in the national interest...
...forgiven? An act of compassion and mercy now, however well-intentioned, might cost the country its freedom at some time in the future. And while amnesty might reconcile one group, say the opponents, it would embitter many Americans. Healing some wounds, it would exacerbate others, they contend. Senator Taft can attest to the bitterness of those who oppose amnesty. He asked one protester what should be done about draft evaders if his plan is rejected. The answer: "Shoot them...
...further technical point against amnesty is the difficulty in separating the draft evader from the deserter, as Senators McGovern and Taft both do. They would give amnesty only to resisters, presumably on the premise that it is not as bad to avoid service as it is to desert once in. Desertion still sounds like unpardonable cowardice to most Americans. In a sense, this distinction may be discriminatory. An uneducated farm boy from Mississippi probably would not have had the knowledge to evade the draft; any college boy could pick it up in an hour. Or, on the other hand, perhaps...