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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1969
Page
8
Washington reports a record rise in draft law prosecutions with more than 300 youths prosecuted monthly. Atty. Gen. official Will Wilson says caseloads swell as judges hand down longer sentences and more defendants enter armed service or see charges dropped.
Sam Brown, leader of the Vietnam Moratorium Committee, calls for arrest and punishment of violence at peace rallies. He says lawbreakers should be punished for their actions, not for mere conspiracy, and notes potential moratorium activity around 1970 elections.
Rabbi Solomon J. Sharfman, head of the Synagogue Council of America, says equating Vietnam with the Arab Israeli conflict is morally wrong. He urges continued antiwar work and opposes any betrayal of Israel, while noting Vietnam’s political future differs from Israel’s existential stakes.
Wilson noted that in 1945 there were 2,890 convictions for draft law violations while during the Korean War era with about 3.5 million men in service only 425 convictions occurred in 1954 and 345 in 1953.
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