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...motion is a response to the government's pre-trial release of parts of letters allegedly exchanged by two codefendants-Rev. Philip Berrigan and Sister Elizabeth McAlister-in which the idea of kidnapping Henry Kissinger '50 is discussed...
...government attached copies of the two handwritten letters to new "superseding" indictments which were issued last Friday against Berrigan and the five other defendants who were in-dicted last January and two additional defendants not previously indicted...
...exchange-by-mail between McAlister and Berrigan constitutes two of the 35 "overt acts" which are listed in the new indictment. In addition, the alleged exchange is cited as grounds for indicting McAlister, Ahmad, and Berrigan under a statute which forbids sending threatening letters through the mail...
...NIXON Administration has repeatedly sought to identify the entire movement with its most extreme elements-"the violent people," President Nixon called them on Monday. The indictments against Philip Berrigan and five others for conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and to purchase and transport explosives over state lines for the purpose of blowing up heating tunnels in the capital fall into this pattern quite neatly. This does not seem like the behavior one would expect from priests and nuns whose dedication to non-violence is well-known. But the record shows that the government will try anything it thinks...
Civil disobedience is scarcely a historical novelty in the U.S. One of Gandhi's heroes was Thoreau, and the Berrigan brothers and their co-defendants have undoubtedly joined a goodly company of history's righteously angry men. However, a less impassioned perspective than that of Daniel Berrigan requires one to say that the U.S. is simply not so criminally degraded and steeped in blood lust as the Catonsville Nine apparently take it to be. Some may wonder if a confusion of realms is not involved, as in the distinction that Shakespeare made in Henry V specifically concerning...