Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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About 100 followers and members of the Nonviolent Direct Action Group (NDAG) celebrated with cider and balloons yesterday the opening of a table in front of City Hall to help people find "socially meaningful work."
"The context of our campaign is the Vietnam war," Charles Fagar, a student at Harvard Divinity School and NDAG press spokesman, said. "We think the replacement of an instrument of death like the draft board with an alternative, life-affirming project like VSC is an occasion for all of us...
ment Center in Boston with a visit to the office of Col. Paul Feeney, State Selective Service Director, "to inform him of the change and invite him to the grand opening ceremonies," Fagar said.
An assistant to the City Manager had told NDAG member Arthur Fink that the draft board pays a token rent of one dollar per year to the City. When the NDAG offered to rent the present draft board room for that amount, Edward G. Seffilian, temporary city auditor, said that...
Feeney met with three NDAG representatives. Edward Lazar, representative of the American Friends Service Committee to the NDAG, said, "Feeney was very cordial, although he couldn't understand the relationship of the draft system to the Vietnam war. We explained to him that the draft makes aggression possible."