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...give conscriptees a choice of military service or work in hospitals, conservation, the Peace Corps or "a learning corps," and should exempt "philosophical and political as well as religious" objectors. The convention opposed as "undemocratic" the draft's 2-S classification, which defers students. Another resolution urged the repeal of laws banning the sale of marijuana...
Parish pressure has forced some ministers to be less open in their advocacy of the Negro cause. In California, virtually every church leader spoke out in 1964 against a referendum to repeal the state's "fair housing" act. The clergymen's advice was overwhelmingly rejected by the voters. Today, even though California's Supreme Court has declared the referendum decision unconstitutional, the law is once again being challenged -but far fewer ministers and priests are defending...
...same stupendous switch in the editorial policies of the ultra-left Daily Worker, were convinced that the Student Union had been following a hard-Stalinist position from the beginning. In any case, the most powerful anti-war group was silenced, and in October, a petition calling for the repeal of the Neutrality Acts received 1000 signatures...
...same stupendous switch in the editorial policies of the ultra-left Daily Worker, were convinced that the Student Union had been following a hard-Stalinist position from the beginning. In any case, the most powerful anti-war group was silenced, and in October, a petition calling for the repeal of the Neutrality Acts received 1000 signatures...
...most important to the most minute, are national matters. Action by both houses of Congress is required to set District teachers' salaries and to establish dog license fees. During the Kennedy Administration, with the civil rights and tax cut bills pending, Congress had to take time off to repeal laws forbidding kite-flying and icecream cones Washington...