Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When David Earl Gutknecht laid his draft card at the feet of a federal marshal in Minneapolis during a Viet Nam War protest in 1967, Selective Service Director Lieut. General Lewis B. Hershey was not amused. After similar acts of defiance by other potential draftees, Hershey sent a memorandum encouraging local draft boards to discipline the protesters by accelerating their inductions as rapidly as Selective Service regulations would permit. Thereupon Gutknecht's draft board declared him "delinquent";* six days later he was jumped ahead of nondelinquent registrants and ordered drafted. He refused to submit and was convicted and sentenced...
...unanimous decision, the Supreme Court has just reversed his conviction, declaring such discipline punitive and illegal. It was the court's second recent slap at vindictive draft boards. In December, 1968, it ruled that boards could not judge a man delinquent and then deprive him of statutory exemptions from military service such as those granted to divinity students. In the latest ruling, written by Justice William O. Douglas, the court said that Congress never intended to give the Selective Service "freewheeling authority to ride herd on the registrants, using immediate induction as a disciplinary or vindictive measure." The board...
...designation applied to registrants for violations from failure to keep their draft cards to not reporting changes in address...
Then, during the less formal answer period, Ulbricht struck a slightly more conciliatory note. Waving his arms and pointing his index finger for emphasis, Ulbricht insisted that "we have no preconditions for talks." Furthermore, he said that when he sent a draft state treaty it was not on a take-it-or-leave-it basis but as "something we can negotiate and each side make its proposals...
Bets are taken on the genuine blondeness of Nurse Hot Lips Houlihan, and an ingenious method is found to reveal her in the shower. The doctors' young houseboy is encouraged to beat the Korean draft by accelerating his heartbeat with Speed. The pious Major Burns (Robert Duvall) is driven into a strait-jacket when his bed is bugged during a furtive love scene with Hot Lips. Their jubilant moans are broadcast on the camp's public-address system...