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October, 1971 91/71 PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
THEY LOVE IT BUT LEAVE IT: AMERICAN DESERTERS, an up-to-date compilation by Devi Prasad of all information about the U.S. servicemen who have deserted the U.S. Armed Forces, was published this month by War Resisters1 International. The publication of the book, and the launching of an appeal signed by more than 200 world leaders to governments throughout the world, asking them to provide asylum and aid to the American "deserters", mark the first stages in an international campaign of support for the deserters.
Devi Prasad, the author of the book, has been active in the non violent peace movement for many years. is General Secretary of the War Resisters' International, he was involved in the Support Czechoslovakia Project in 1968 and the WRI Campaign for the Recog nition of Conscientious Objection as a Human Right. ""He was active in the freedom movement of India.
Among the Americans who have signed the Appeal are Hannah Arendt, Leonard Bernstein, Noam Chomsky, William Davidon, Daniel Berrigan, Erich Fromm, ...lien Ginsberg, -Ifred Hassler, Elizabeth Mobilster, Neil McLaughlin, Norman Mailer, Faul Mayer, Peter Orlovsky, Linus Pauling, .mthony Scoblick, Mary Scoblick, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Philip Berrigan, Eqbal ^Jamad, and John Glick.
Price : Paperback $ U1Ô S • »Ail p09ta&# included) $1.60 v,airiiail portage included) Hard Cover $4,0r> (searaail postage included) (For U.S. checks over $2.4-0 please add $.4-0 for conversion charge) Price in U.K.: Paperback^. 30p (in U.K. add 5P handling charges ; Hardcovex1. .£1 in other countries , add equivalent 10p per copy)
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To WRI Publications 3 Caledonian Road London N1, England
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