Word: berrigans
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About 120 people gathered in Faneuil Hall in Boston yesterday to hear speeches denouncing the recent indictment of Philip Berrigan and five others on Federal conspiracy charges...
Joseph Miles, a member of the Greater Boston Peace Action Coalition, called the charges against Berrigan and five others an "attack on the entire peace movement and the civil liberties of all Americans." He demanded that all the charges be dropped immediately...
...Harrisburg. Pa., grand jury indicted Berrigan and five others for conspiring to kidnap Henry A. Kissinger, Presidential assistant on foreign affairs, and transport him in interstate commerce; conspiring to maliciously destroy U. S. property, specifically, heating systems in buildings in the capital; conspiring to possess dynamite, plastic explosives and detonating cord without registering them under Federal law; and conspiring to transport these explosives in interstate commerce for the purpose of destroying property...
...BERRIGANS. After being convicted for their 1967-68 draft-board raids in Baltimore and Catonsville, Md., the nation's most famous peace criminals. Fathers Daniel and Philip Berrigan, jumped bail and eluded FBI agents for weeks before their capture last year. Despite their confinement in the minimum-security federal prison at Danbury, Conn., the two Roman Catholic priests are still bucking the system. Daniel, 49, a Jesuit and poet, is serving a three-year sentence and working as a dental assistant. Philip, 47, a member of the Josephite fathers and a polemicist, is in for six years and doing...
Seven other persons were named in the indictment Tuesday as co-conspirators but not as defendants. They are: the Rev. Daniel J. Berrigan, brother of Philip Berrigan; Sister Beverly Bell; Sister Marjorie Ashuman; Thomas Davidson; Paul Mayer, a former priest; and professor William Davidson of Haverford College...