Word: antidraft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years the South African government has been at war with the 900 antidraft activists of the End Conscription Campaign. Defense Minister Magnus Malan calls them "anti-South African." The police have repeatedly raided the campaign's 40 offices and campus branches, and jailed 96 of the group's members without charge. Last week Pretoria fired its latest, and most devastating, salvo. Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok banned the group from "continuing any activities or acts...
...ruling party. It has spearheaded a campaign for conscientious objection, maintaining that no Nicaraguan should be punished for withholding his support from the Sandinistas. In response, Sandinista-run mobs have vandalized twelve churches, canceled processions and occasionally forced the postponement of Masses. Eight young Catholics, accused of organizing antidraft protests, were arrested by authorities at gunpoint; two priests were deported on the same charge...
...Antidraft groups, which had been predicting widespread noncompliance, were unconvinced by the Selective Service's figures. Said Barry Lynn, head of CARD (Committee Against Registration and the Draft): "I'm not going to call Rostker a liar. I am going to say I'm very, very skeptical." Lynn called for an independent audit of the count, perhaps by Congress's General Accounting Office. It was a challenge that Rostker gladly picked...
...post offices were getting ready to receive the first wave of a tide of 4 million initial registrants-all male citizens and resident aliens born in 1960 and 1961-the signup foes won what could prove to be a short-lived victory in the courts. Ruling on an antidraft suit originally brought by four anti-Viet Nam youths in 1971, two years before induction was ended, a panel of three federal judges in Philadelphia "permanently enjoined" the Government from requiring anyone to register with Selective Service...
...lonely, personal decision, and you have to face the fact that you may end up in jail," Judge told 150 students who gathered in the Science Center for an antidraft teach-in last night...