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Objector status defended
The Associated Press
Resister has failed to report for duty at reserve hospital
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The lawyer for an Army captain who has resisted the call to the Persian Gulf knows what his client is going through: He did it himself during the Vietnam era.
Louis Font made national headlines more than two decades ago when he sought a discharge over his objection to the Vietnam War.
Today, he is in the news again as the attorney for Yolanda Huet-Vaughn, 39, who has been absent leave from Fort Riley since Dec. 30.
Font was a 23-year-old West Point graduate and a lieutenant in 1970, when he sought an honorable dischargement. He served in Vietnam War, immoral and unjust.
the 410th Medical Evacuation Hospi-
sion to Saudi Arabia awaiting orders to
go to Saudi Arabia.
Huet-Vaughn and Font are natives of Kansas City, Kan.
Huet-Vaughn has refused to join
She said that she considered war immoral, inhumane and unconstitutional.
Unlike Huet-Vaughn, Font had filed for a discharge as a selective conscientious objector. In other words, he would call to all war, just the Vietnam conflict.
"Yolanda has not filed for conscientious objection, and at this time, does not intend to," Font said by his座座, where he has his law practice.
Font lost a federal court case for a discharge on grounds of conscientious objection but ultimately was awarded an honorable discharge from the Army.
Font alleged war crimes had been committed in Vietnam. The Army accused him of disobeying orders and he demanded him to resign, but he refused.
At 44, Font now represents military personnel in criminal and civil matters. Since the Persian Gulf standoff began, he has taken up the cases of eight conscientious objectors, including Huet-Vaughn.
Font predicted that if war erups there will be hundreds, if not thousands of people asking for conscientious objection status.
Huet-Vaughn's stance is particularly courageous, Font said, because by remaining AWOL she is subject to itself to possible criminal penalties.
After a soldier is absent without authorization for a few weeks, the soldier's name typically is entered into a national crime computer and an arrest warrant is issued.
Pentagon makes hasty orders for equipment needed in gulf
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon at times is ignoring contracting rules and making multimillion-dollar handshake deals as it places rush orders for ammunition and spare troops for troops in the Persian Gulf region.
With war against Iraq possible any time after midnight Tuesday, the Army is scrambling to give armored divisions newly arrived in Saudi Arabia and parts of fuel lubricants and supplies most likely to wear out in combat.
"I'll have them in the air within a week." Maj Gen. Charles Murray, the army's deputy chief of staff for security, said in an interview Friday.
Although those shipments will not arrive by the deadline for Iraq's pullout from Kuwait, Murray said, "We can go to war on the 15th, and we can sustain that war and we can keep the pipeline going, both by surface and air, that will allow us to sustain a war for however long it takes."
Six months into the unprecedented deployment, Murray and others involved in supplying the troops said the harsh desert environment and rugged terrain using most parts to wear out far quieter than in normal peacetime training.
The Army, based on past testing in desert conditions, has been obtaining parts at about 3.5 times its normal armaments deployed in the gulf, Murray said.
A review of important Pentagon ammunition, parts and hardware contracts awarded since mid-August shows large purchases of tires, track shoes for armored personnel carrier vehicles, 120mm shells, tank batteries, lightweight desert aircraft, tank shelters and scores of other supplies.
The spending has provided a mini-boom for contractors expecting sigma-grade work.
shipment to the gulf. The rest are to rebuild stockpiles drawn down quickly after commanders in Saudi Arabia realized their initial requests were far below expected combat needs.
Ammunition plants that had expected to be shut down now are churning out bullets, shells and other items. Some items are for direct
Officials said the Army made an initial ammunition shipment based on a computer model. But ground commanders in Saudi Arabia decided use in combat likely would be much higher than projected by computer.
Over $1 billion has been spent on food, clothing and medical supplies for Operation Desert Shield. New contracts for ammunition, parts and other hardware are expected to be at least in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
Murray and other Pentagon officials said the services also had made handsake deals with some suppliers without formal contracts, deciding towing procedures and probably federal law because of emergency needs.
Slattery expects no draft
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — U.S. Rep. Jim Slater thinks the United States will not reintroduce a military draft because he expects a Persian Gulf war to be short and to result in a decisive American victory.
Slattery, a Democrat who represents the 2nd Congressional District, said Sunday that a recent trip to the Middle East convinced him of Iran's economic sanctions would not侵袭 Iraq or of Kuwait quickly enough.
Slattery voted Saturday for a resolution to give President Bush the power to use military force. The United Nations has given Iraq until Jan. 15 to leave Kuwait without facing a military attack
The congressman said he believed an armed conflict would be short because the United States had a better-equipped military.
"I don't think there's much chance of a draft unless the conflict would drag on for many, many months, which I will be very surprised to see happen." Slattery said.
Slattery returned Thursday morning from a five-day tour of Egypt, Israel and Saudi Arabia. He said the trip changed his mind about the Middle East policy and the need to give Bush the option to use force.
Slattery had a Statehouse news conference to discuss the trip and his Saturday vote with reporters. His remarks had a more hawkish tone than statements he made before he left for the Middle East.
Two weeks ago, he said the United States may have committed itself to defending Saudi Arabia for several years, adding that a military assault had to dispel the notion that a war would be short and bloodless.
On Sunday, Slattery said he did not think a draft would be necessary."
United Church of Christ letter condemnns racism
The Associated Press
Next Sunday, a day before the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, church leaders plan to read the letter to more than 6,000 congregations of the 1.7 million-member Protestant denomination.
WASHINGTON — Racism remains entrenched in American society and is triggering "quiet riots" of poverty and crime, the United Church of Christ said in its new policy statement in an unusual pastoral letter.
"As a result of racial discrimination, all over the United States there are 'quiet riots' in the form of unemployment, poverty, social disorganization, family disintegration, housing and school deterioration, and crime," the church stated Monday in its letter.
The pastoral letter, only the third in the church's history, carries theological and social meaning for many. It is often used to draw wide attention as well, said the
Rev Benjamin Chavis Jr., a veteran civil rights leader and church offi-
"We are trying to sound a national alarm." Chavis said in an interview last week. "We believe the leadership of our nation has focused so much on the world situation that we're losing sight of the domestic — the internal deterioration of our society
"We should have made much more progress toward racial harmony."
The church calls on its followers to recognize racism as a sin and to become active in the political process on behalf of equality.
The church said the country remains "two societies, separate and unequal." The letter stated that poverty had worsened in recent decades and a heavily minority urban underclass had grown.
The church's statement voices alarm at an increasing frequency of violent acts against minorities, and
said it stems from a growing climate of racial intolerance and hostility.
An accompanying background paper cites federal statistics showing increasing inequalities in living standards for whites and non-whites:
Minorities make up 30 percent of the population, but 58 percent of the American children living in poverty; black males have a life expectancy of 65.3 years, lower than the level of whites; among blacks is twice that of whites; and health care is far less accessible for non-whites.
Chavis, who is executive director of the church's Commission for Racial Justice, spent 4½ years in North Carolina prisons in the 1970s after his conviction as a member of the Wilmington 10, a group including nine young black men involved in firebombing a store and other related charges during the civil rights unrest in Wilmington. N.C.
They were cited by Amnesty International as the first case of U.S. political prisoners, and a federal appeals court overturned their convictions in 1980.
Racism extends far beyond black-white relations in a nation growing in ethnic diversity, the church letter stated. It list minorities such as Asians, Americans and Pacific Islanders, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders as victims of racism as well.
Chavis lay blame on the Bush and Reagan administrations for the increase in racism, saying, "I think it was racism, is the federalization of racism."
He cited an Education Department decision last month, later rolled back, barring universities from setting aside money for scholarships to minorities only. He also pointed to President Bush's veto of the 1990 civil rights bill and to apparent political exploitation by Republicans of white backlash to affirmative action hiring practices.
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