Word: unfit
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Ethical Issue. A few of the letters are flagrantly fraudulent. One New York woman psychiatrist has written as many as 75 letters a week, charging up to $250 each to certify men as emotionally unfit for military duties. Selective Service physicians now recognize and ignore her recommendations. Several authors of equally dubious letters have been reported to the U.S. Army Surgeon General, though it is questionable whether he has any authority to act against them. The Justice Department could prosecute such doctors for impeding the draft or making fraudulent statements to the Government, but proving the charges might be difficult...
...fact, the Army inducts an embarrassing number of soldiers who turn out to be physically or emotionally unfit and end up requiring extensive care or lifetime disability pensions. Army doctors who let such men through are required to explain their errors. To avoid such difficulties, and because the pool of qualified men has so far been adequate for the Army's needs, doctors give draftees with borderline conditions the benefit of the doubt. All this helps men armed with doctors' letters, which Army physicians have no time to verify and would just as soon accept...
...classification of women as unfit for military service is without reason and unconstitutional." says a lawyer who is challenging the constitutionality of the 1967 Selective Service Act on behalf of four men, including one Harvard student, charged with failing to report for induction...
...paper's picturing grapes as part of Passover Feasts. He said the Massachusetts Board of Rabbis was supporting the California grape boycott, had determined it to be a religious and moral issue, and, basing its decision on "the spirit and letter of Jewish law," had declared California table grapes unfit for use in synagogues and religious Jewish homes...
When he finished, an indignant Yarmolinsky rose from the audience and, seething with anger, told Guinier, "All that you have said in the last ten minutes makes you unfit to be a member of the Harvard Faculty." His pronouncement was met with scattered boos and hisses which only spurred Yarmolinsky's intensity. "Do you know who I am?" he shouted, "Do you know...