Word: pacifists
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...lower-court hearing on the scope of police surveillance and the relevancy of the material being gathered to a proper police function. Thus, civil-liberties groups still hope to narrow the scope of intelligence activities. The police now compile their data on two forms. One classifies demonstrations as pacifist, religious, right-wing, leftwing, civil rights, militant, nationalistic, black power, Ku Klux Klan and extremist. The second form is less vague, potentially more dangerous. It covers the people attending or taking part in demonstrations and calls for information on their families, employers, finances, personal habits and past activities...
Died. Vera Brittain, 75, British pacifist and author; of pneumonia; in Wimbledon, England. A World War I battlefield nurse who lost her brother and fiance in the trenches, Miss Brittain lectured widely and wrote with the passion of experience in her descriptive, often brutal, antiwar writings-most notably Testament of Youth, an account of her conversion to pacifism, which was published...
...spokesman for the U.S. Military Academy said yesterday that he could recall no previous instance in which a cadet had sought discharge as a pacifist a category in which he included Font's selective conscientious objection...
...February 27, Font submitted his request for discharge from the Army, declaring that although he was not a "total pacifist." he could no longer "contribute to wanton destruction of life" as an army officer...
...case involved a young man who at 17 went into business manufacturing children's clothes and became a millionaire by the age of 23. Robert I. Toussie did not register, he said later, because his pacifist convictions prevented any contact with the military system -even applying for status as a conscientious objector. His default went unnoticed until he was 25, when an anonymous tipster informed his draft board. In appealing his subsequent conviction, Toussie argued that the Government had lost its chance to prosecute him when the federal statute of limitations ran out five years after he had committed...