Draft dodger Meis denied meeting clemency board
U S draft resister Bill Meis of Decatur Illinois returned from Canada to protest President Ford s earned re entry program and plans to surrender to a Springfield attorney Meis said he was angered by the program which he calls involuntary servitude and urged unconditional amnesty as he seeks to meet the clemency panel chair and counsel but was refused access to the board offices
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Canada
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Bill Meis
Decatur
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John Foote
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Mets
United States
U.S
Springfield
Up T
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Amnesty attracts only 70 of 11,000 deserters
Washington United Press International reports only about 70 of an estimated 11,000 eligible deserters surrendered under Ford’s two week old amnesty plan. Pentagon figures show less than 1 percent processed, while 2,208 inquiries suggest potential uptake may rise. ACLU says program is worse than no amnesty, plans legal challenge. National Council of Churches to offer counseling in four Canadian cities.
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Ford
Pentagon
American Civil Liberties Union
ACLU
United States
National Council of Churches
FBI file on Rockefeller turned over to House Judiciary
A large FBI file on vice presidential candidate Nelson Rockefeller was given to the House Judiciary Committee. Rep. Don Edwards will lead a subcommittee review of the more than 2,000 pages before full hearings begin, likely after the November election. Access will be tightly limited to a small group of committee members.
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FBI
Nelson Rockefeller
House Judiciary Committee
Don Edwards
D-Calif
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Edwards Subcommittee On Constitutional and Civil Rights
Judiciary Committee
Peter Rodino
D-N.j
Ed Hutchinson
R-Mich
Gerald Ford
Major charged in draft evasion racket
An Army major and a kingpin in a Vietnam era draft evasion scheme faced a three count indictment. Maj William Sangemino 45 of Fort Hamilton Brooklyn allegedly took 50 000 of the total 400 men who escaped service by paying up to 39000 each. Co conspirator Nathan Lemler of Remedial Education Inc Cedarhurst Long Island was named with 15 others. The scheme used fake or fradulent hardship discharges transfers and psychiatric excuses to place men in graduate schools or hospitals to avoid service. Lemler described as a selective service counselor allegedly solicited young men seeking medical dental and law schooling. The indictment noted Sangemino aided by Lemler and others deprived the country of fair selection for service. The major remained assigned to New York City Selective Service headquarters.
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Remedial Education Inc
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Far Rockaway, N.Y
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U.S
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