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ACROSS Milk St. from the Post Office Building where Dr. Benjamin Spock's case is being heard stands a sign that reads in large green letters: "Boston Five." A second look reveals smaller letters that complete the title of a branch office of The Boston Five Cents Savings Bank. But the anonymous adman who decided to capitalize those two particular words inadvertantly provided a sort of marquee for the drama of the so-called Boston Five and their fight against government prosecution for illegally counseling draft resistance...
Inside the Post Office, in an austerely decorated twelfth-story courtroom, the adversaries in the case gathered last week for the first encounter in what may be a long legal duel. The five defendants--Spock, Yale Chaplain William Sloan Coffin, Harvard graduate student Michael K. Ferber, writer Mitchell Goodman, and former National Security Council staffer Marcus Raskin--were all there, each with one or more attorneys. So were Judge Francis J.W. Ford, who will hear the case, and assistant U.S. attorney John Wall, who will argue the government's side, at least at first. In addition, there was the usual...
...defense attorneys could not have been overly surprised, since American courts have always shunned issues of war and peace as being unsuited for judicial inquiry. In fact, sticking to more established lines of defense probably gives the five men a better chance of acquittal. But anyone who hoped Spock might be martyring himself to open a legal route of attack against the war is sure to be disappointed...
Lawyers for Dr. Benjamin Spock and four co-defendents charged with illegal activities against the draft continued their attempt yesterday to have the conspiracy indictment against the men dismissed...
...reply to a request by Leonard Boudin, Spock's attorney, for more particulars, assistant U.S. attorney John Wall told the court: "All Mr. Boudin has to do is go to the Bureau of the Census and ask for the name of every male person between 18 and 35, and he'll know who's been counselled" to break Selective Service laws...