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THE SUMMER DAILY
Friday, May 25, ]973
Deserter testifies, surrenders
at unofficial amnesty hearings
WASHINGTON (') - A 25-
year-old man who said he de-
serted the Army three years ago
gave surprise testimony today
before a group of congressmen
holding hearings on amnesty,
and then turned himself in to
Capitol police.
Edward Sowder of Detroit ap-
peared before an unofficial
hearing and told the panel that
when he joined the Army in 1965
he believed in fighting in Viet-
nam.
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BUT he said what he witnessed
in Vietnam changed his mind
and "I went on strike against
the war."
"I make no apology for my act
of resistance. I could do noth-
ing else at the time. But under-
ground life has become intoler-
able to me. So I'm here today,
to draw attention to the true
facts concerning my case and
the cases of tens of thousands
like me.
"We are not criminals to be
hunted and imprisoned."
REP. BELLA ABZUG, (D-N.
Y.) heads the panel which in-
cludes Democratic Reps. John
Conyers of Michigan, Ronald
Dellums, Phil Burton and George
Brown of California, Parren Mit-
chell of Maryland and Benjamin
Rosenthal of New York.
When Sowder finished his tes-
timony he joined his mother and
brother in the audience of the
hearing. A few "minutes later he
heard that FBI agents were in
the hallway, waiting for him.
He left the hearing room but
found no agents. He walked down
the hall, accompanied by his
lawyer, looking for the agents
and still couldn't find them. Fin-
ally he turned himself over to
two Capitol policemen who took
him into custody to await the
FBI.
.IN THE BACKDROP of the
hearings were the freed Ameri-
can POWs, whose ,return home
was a condition posed by many
for even discussing amnesty.
And hanging over the session
was the chance that many men
avoiding prosecution for dodg-
ing the draft may not be law-
breakers. Their numbers were
put at an estimated 2,800 in Can-
ada, 550 in other foreign coun-
tries and 1,250 in hiding.
Two weeks ago, draft director
Byron Pepitone said the possi-
bility existed that many may not
have broken Selective Service
law.
WALTER MORSE, general
counsel of the Selective Service
System, said this would include
men whose records have errors
of fact or procedure in the pro-
cessing. He said when such er-
rors are found the man's case is
reopened, automatically wiping
out any possible charge of draft
evasion.
For those who have been pro-
secuted, about one quarter of
them have been convicted and
nearly . three-fourths of these
were put on probation. Recent
figures show that before the
war's end more than 4,000 were
accused but over 3,000 were not
convicted.
President Nixon has said he
is against amnesty. Some liber-
als from both parties have said
they would favor a conditional
amnesty that would include pub-
lic service jobs upon conviction.
THERE has been no recent
barometer of congressional senti-
ment for conditional or uncondi-
tional amnesty, such as proposed
in two bills introduced in the
House. One bill was introduced
by Abzug and the other by Del-
lums.
AP Photo
ARMY DESERTER Edgar Sowder of Detroit surrenders to Capitol
police after appearing before an Ad Hoc Hearing on Amnesty on
Capitol Hill. Sowder told Congress members at the hearing, "I
make no apology for my act of resistance."
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