Prosecution exemption begins at 23
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Supreme Court ruled 5 to 3 Monday that youths who refuse to register for the draft are exempt from prosecution when they reach their 23rd birthdays. The government had claimed the statute of limitations ran until age 31.
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, along with Justices Byron R. White and John M. Harlan, dissented with White declaring from the bench the decision "represents the kind of free-wheeling judicial authority that courts ought to avoid."
But the majority opinion by Justice Hugo L. Black held that Congress had specified a five-year statute of limitation in the Selective Service law. This means, Black said, that the government must bring prosecution between
a youth's 18th birthday when he is required to register and his 23rd.
The government had claimed that each day a youth failed to register was a new offense which could extend the statute of limitations until age 31.
Court says Maddox can't run
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Supreme Court refused Monday to give Lester Maddox authority to run for a second consecutive term as governor of Georgia. Maddox promptly hinted that he might run his wife for the office.
Maddox had asked the high court to overturn a section of the Georgia constitution barring governors from succeeding themselves. The court refused to consider the case, holding it was outside its jurisdiction.
Maddox said the court refused to help him because it was influenced by "socialistic and communistic political philosophy."
The maximum penalty for failure to register is five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
"I thought the Supreme Court would have a different standard for Lester Maddox and the people that want to vote for him than it has for the Socialists and Communists and parasites," Maddox said in Atlanta.
However, Maddox said it wasn't important that he personally continue as governor. What is important, he said, is that the governor be "someone who speaks like Lester Maddox."
Maddox said he would talk with his wife Virginia about
whether she should run for governor in the September Democratic primary. He said he would have a political announcement March 16.
Laos arena is worsening
WASHINGTON (UPD) —Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said Monday "we are in it up to our necks" in Laos.
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Black acknowledged that the statute of limitations sometimes "may permit a rogue to escape" but added: "We do feel that the threat of criminal punishment and the five-year statute of limitations is a sufficient incentive to encourage compliance with the registration requirements."
The second annual Jayhawk Karate Tournament will be held March 7 at the Community, Building, 11th and Vermont Street.
Eliminations will begin at 10:30 a.m. and the finals at 7 p.m.
Max Muller, Prairie Village law student, instructor of the KU Karate Club and director of the tournament, said admission for the eliminations would be 50 cents and $1.50 for the finals.
All persons with belt rankings of white, green, brown and black are eligible to compete in both
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The ruling reversed the 1967 conviction of Robert I. Toussie of Brooklyn, N.Y., who had refused to register for the draft on grounds he was a conscientious objector. The indictment came eight years after Toussie's 18th birthday.
kata (form and style) and kumite (free fighting).
Muller said this year in addition to individual competition, there would be team competition in which any college or commercial academy could enter a team of five men. Teams from Oklahoma University, Wichita State University, Colorado State University and KU will be featured.
The ruling did not apply to other such draft violations as refusal to report for induction.
"The time is short," Mansfield said in a Senate speech.
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"The time is now to face up to the implications of this worsening situation in Laos."
He said the presence of American military advisers in Laos "cannot be camouflaged any longer."
It is useless for either the United States or North Vietnam to maintain the "fiction" that the 1962 Geneva Accord guaranteeing the neutrality of Laos was being upheld, Mansfield declared.
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"We are both in it—North Vietnamese and Americans—and we are in it up to our necks."
Mansfield said close U.S. connection with Laotian government forces had resulted in "a further 'Americanization' of the war in Laos . . . which seems to be matching the effort to 'Vietnamize' the situation in South Vietnam."
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