Word: berrigans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...diplomats and businessmen stationed there. Occasionally the virulence has struck spectacularly elsewhere in the world, as in the 1970 kidnapings by French-Canadian separatists of Quebec Minister of Labor Pierre Laporte and British Trade Commissioner James Cross. But in the U.S., political extremism has taken other forms, though the Berrigan brothers and their friends did kick around an almost comic-opera scenario to kidnap Henry Kissinger as part of their antiwar activities...
...Hire. Schulman, 46, comes to his avocation from a radical background. He calls himself a "broken-down academic," having lost posts at Cornell and City College of New York because of his activism. He got into the Harrisburg case partly because of his friendship with Daniel Berrigan. Christie, 55, a Columbia professor of social psychology, became involved through his friendship with Schulman...
...Father Berrigan's statements about Israel are added testimony to his courage and sincerity as an advocate of peace and justice. That his incisively true remarks would infuriate some American Jewish religious leaders is significant. These leaders cannot separate the concept of Israel as a foreign political entity from the concept of Judaism as a religious faith...
...Gandhi Peace Prize, Father Berrigan deserves it even more now. Gandhi deplored the Zionist colonial adventure in Palestine, branding it an injustice and a threat to peace...
...Regardless of one's position on Berrigan's moral perspective, it is difficult to believe that he is an anti-Semite of any kind...