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ACLU fails in
first attempt
to block draft
registration
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
American Civil Liberties Union yester-
day lost the first battle in its federal-
court drive to block next week's resum-
ption of draft registration in the United
States.
With some four million 19- and 2q-
year-old men due to start registering
for the draft Monday, U.S. District
Judge Gerhard Gesell heard civil liber-
ties lawyers argue that Selective Ser-
vice forms illegally require registrants
to provide their Social Security num-
bers.
THE ACLU asked Gesell to block
registration until new forms are printed
or to make the government post signs in
America's 34,500 post offices telling
registrants they need not give their
Social Security numbers.
But Gesell rejected the group's
requests at the close of a 45-minute
hearing, concluding, "It is in the public
interest to proceed with the registration
plan which is now in the eleventh hour."
The judge noted Director Bernard
Rostker of the Selective Service System
has said he will not recommend
prosecution of those~who fail to provide
their numbers.
AT THE SAME time, however, Gesell
called . vement's position
"bizarre' esie onithe one hand
registrant are told they must provide,
their Social Security numbers, ard on
the other, a key official promises not to
recommend prosecution of those who
donot
Justice Department lawyer Charles
Eliot, in opposing the temporary
restraining offer sought by the ACLU,
said the registration plan is one of a
series of necessary steps "to convince
the Soviet Union that their actions in
Afghanistan were ill-advised."
ACLU lawyer Charles Sims,
"disappointed" by Gesell's ruling,
pledged the civil liberties group will
continue efforts to block use of Social
Security numbers, hoping eventually to
eliminate all numbers from any
registration forms.
The Privacy Act suit brought by the
ACLU is only one of three legal efforts
the group has mounted to block
registration.
The other two, including one pending
before Gesell, charge that the draft and
draft registration illegally discriminate
against men because they exclude
women from registering.
Don't smash-those snakes
A 39-year-old Pingree, Idaho man has learned the hard way that
rattlesnacks don't hold their liquor very well. Paul Gallegos is nursing a
blackened finger after he was bitten by a pet rattlesnack he and his friends
were trying to get drunk with beer, his wife, Joyce, told the Blackfoot
(Idaho) News. "Sometimes I think he's 13," Joyce Gallegos said. "This was
just too much. I hope he's learned his lesson." Gallegos, a mechanic, and his
friends were taunting the snake in the back of a pickup truck on West Bridge
in clkfoot early Saturday, Joyce Gallegos said. After the snake struck,
Ga Was rushed to Bingham Memorial Hospital, where he was kept
overnght for observation:Maybe they should have tried malt liquor. Q
On the outside
After yesterday's early morning storm, today's mostly sunny skies
are a welcome sight. The high temperature should reach the mid-80s. 0,
Happenings
FILMS
Cinema Guild-You and Me, 8 p.m., Old Arch. Aud.
AAFC-Day for Night, 7,9 p.m., Angell Aud. A.
Cinema II-Our Man in Havana, 7:30 p.m., The Fallen Idol, 9:30 p.m.,
MLB 4.
Michigan Media Summer Film Showcase-Writing on the Wall, Place to
Live, Walls Come Tumbling Down, Power to Change, 7:30 p.m., MLB 3.
,Rudolf Steiner House-Waldorf Education in North America, 8 pm.,
1923 Geddes.
PERFORMANCES
RC/Brecht Co.-"The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui," 8 p.m., Residential
College Aud.
Michigan Repertory '80-"A Midsummer Night's Dream," 8 p.m.,
Power Center.
MISCELLANEOUS
Turner Geriatric Clinic-"A Day in the Park," third annual Turner
Picnic, 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m., Riverside Park.
School of Metaphysics-new class in applied metaphysics, 7:30 p.m.,
219 N. Main.
Veterans Administration-50th anniversary ceremony, 7:30 p.m., Ann
Arbor VA Medical Center, 2215 Fuller Rd.
Michigan League-American Heritage Night featuring Western
Missions cuisine, 57 p m, League.El
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