Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Following Nixon's advice of working in the American electoral system, my spirits have been uplifted by the recent elections. The fabled Silent Majority wielded its power of the ballot to remind Nixon that he has failed to fulfill his mandate to stop the war, end the draft, curb inflation, bring peace and freedom to Middle Americans, etc., ad nauseam...
Continued and prolonged disruption of draft boards, federal offices, military installations, and war-related industries by massive civil disobedience, building toward a demonstration already planned for May 1 which will close the city of Washington by nonviolent means. We cannot wait until May to begin. It is far too late already...
...Would-be C.O.s can request their draft boards to classify then as I-0 (which exempts them from military duty but requires them to serve in mental hospitals, in VISTA or in some other service programs), or as 1-A-0's (they don uniforms but do not bear arms. This year the Army has trained as many as 3,000 1-A-0's, mostly as medics...
Courses at the Law School are based on the case study method. Recently, many students have been arguing for a program of clinical legal education, in which students get credit for actual field work in areas such as consumer protection, tenant-landlord relations, and draft problems...
Beyond Letters. Many doctors are particularly disturbed by the inability of the poor to obtain exemptions on psychiatric grounds. "Draft evasion is a middle-class activity," says Dr. Peter La Valle, a San Francisco psychiatrist. "Poor people aren't allowed to be officially neurotic in this country." To eliminate this inequity, many physicians have started organizations like the Medical Committee for Human Rights, which has chapters serving youths in 30 cities across the country. Says Dr. Eli Messinger, a Manhattan psychiatrist who chairs the committee: "We feel that draft physicals are too rapid, and that as a consequence many...