Fourth International Publications

The International’s English-language periodicals: World Outlook, Inprecor and their companions, 1958–1994

General Hershey Beats Strategic Retreat

World Outlook Vol. 6, No. 2, 19 January 1968 · p 29 · 65 words

HERSHEY BEATS STRATEGIC RETREAT

General Lewis B. Hershey, director of the U.S. Selective Service system, had to make a strategic retreat January 12 in his war against opponents of the war in Vietnam. The doughty general, who has ordered draft boards to move against antiwar protestors, canceled a speech before a group of Boy Scouts in a Philadelphia suburb for fear of an antiwar demonstration.

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