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...piety and polity. Tentatively called "The Church of Christ Uniting" to imply its openness to other groups that may want to join, the proposed superchurch will be theologically broad-minded in its approach to doctrine but notably bureaucratic in structure. In many ways, it suggests a kind of Episcopalianism writ large and Low. It will also be pointedly interracial...
Previously, young men who defied the draft and wanted a judicial trial of their claims were left with an unpleasant choice. They could refuse induction and hope to win the ensuing criminal prosecution, or enter the service and then go through the slow process of seeking a writ of habeas corpus. Now the Oestereich and Breen decisions establish that anyone whose draft board is guilty of a "clear departure from its statutory mandate" can ask federal courts to review his case before he faces induction...
Mann, Olson, and Nies were arrested on the felony charge on October 24 and released without bond on October 29. Reeves was arrested on the same charge, without a warrant, yesterday morning inside the courtroom. Taylor refused to hear Homans' petition for a writ of habeas corpus on Reeves...
...PATTERN of last month's attack on the Center for International Affairs has been writ large on the streets of Chicago this week. Most of us knew what the Weathermen were planning in Chicago, when and where the days of rage would strike. But no amount of psychic rehearsal could have prepared us for the indiscriminate violence of the Weathermen campaign...
...Proof. When all else fails, most young men threatened with induction have only two ways of bringing their case before the courts. They can go through with induction and then ask a court to order their release on a writ of habeas corpus. They can also refuse induction and be tried for draft evasion -risking a five year sentence. Despite the risk, the number of federal criminal prosecutions brought under the Selective Service law has risen steadily -from a mere 287 in fiscal 1964 to 3,305 last year...