News release dated March 17, 1970 highlighting the case of Army First Lieutenant Louis Paul Font, a conscientious objector to the Vietnam war with legal representation by lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union. Includes statements by Font as well as statements in his defense and the defense of all conscientious objectors by the ACLU. "The ACL believes that the individuals who should qualify as conscientious objectors to a particular war are those who find participation in such a war so great a wrong that even their government's command will not relieve them of individual responsibility for committing that wrong." -- from the news release.