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...issue. President Nixon, his chin outthrust, answered the question with one firm word-no-at a press conference in November. But with an end to the war in sight and an all-volunteer Army on the near horizon, the topic is gaining currency. Ohio's Republican Senator Robert Taft Jr., a Republican with impeccable credentials, went so far last month as to introduce a bill to grant amnesty to draft resisters-with the stiff provision that it be coupled with three years in compensatory military or civilian federal service...
...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...
...year history of the Taft-Hartley Act, the Federal Government has sought 80 day cooling-off periods in 28 major labor disputes, pleading that "national health and safety" required an end to the strikes. The Government was never refused. During the current dock strike, the Attorney General contended that the failure of 200 Chicago longshoremen to load $75 million worth of corn and soybeans for export imperiled the national economy. Federal Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz found the Government's case for an injunction "far less reasoned" than required. "Some harm or threat of injury is regrettably a natural, indispensable...
...President took on an additional labor problem last week: he invoked the Taft-Hartley Act in order to halt a crippling two-month strike on the East and Gulf Coast docks. In October, he used the law to put longshoremen back to work on the West Coast...