The New Republic, December 20, 1969
TO RECTIFY the preponderance of military recruiting on the airwaves, San Francisco peace groups have asked TV stations to broadcast anti-recruitment ads (“See your draft counselor, not your recruiter”) as well. Their basis is the Fairness Doctrine.
The Nation, September 8, 1969
CAN A MAN be classified and inducted by a draft board whose members do not live in the area of the board’s jurisdiction? According to two federal judges in Northern California, the answer is no.
The New Republic, July 5, 1969
THERE WERE TEARS of joy outside the barren one-room courthouse on the afternoon of June 7. Fourteen GI’s charged with mutiny for conducting a peaceful sit-down demonstration at the San Francisco Presidio stockade had just been given light — by Army standards — sentences.
Newsweek, June 2, 1969
LAST TUESDAY, I was gassed twice in Berkeley. It hurt. The police and National Guard no longer bother with simple tear gas. They are using a chemical called CS — the kids call it pepper gas — that the Army uses in Vietnam.
The New Republic, May 24, 1969
FOR THREE-AND-A-HALF million American citizens in uniform, justice is what the brass say it is, damn the Constitution and full speed ahead.
The New Leader, December 18, 1967
“BOBBY KENNEDY wants to be President so badly you can practically see him salivating,” one observer here noted recently. Yet Senator Eugene McCarthy, who doesn’t particularly want to assume the burdens of world leadership, is the man seeking the nomination. What gives?
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