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Wendt's defense was led by Lawyer and Lay Theologian William Stringfellow, who harbored Daniel Berrigan in 1970 when the Jesuit was a fugitive from the FBI. Stringfellow was interested in pursuing what he felt was a vindicating factor in Wendt's action-the validity of the women's ordinations. The national head of the church, Presiding Bishop John M. Allin, who was subpoenaed for the defense, refused to appear; as a result, at week's end he was cited for contempt by the five-judge ecclesiastical court. That left as the star witness his predecessor...
...There never has been an uproar about paying or not paying, but this is our first Nixon-type speaker. What if next time we invite someone like Jane Fonda or the Berrigan brothers there is protest? They've been arrested. I don't know what answer we can give," he said...
Into this void has stepped, Hush Puppies and all, Ramsey Clark. Ever since he resigned as U.S. Attorney General in the Johnson Administration, Clark has sought out one liberal cause after another. He has championed Eskimos and Indians, the Berrigan brothers and the Attica rebels, New York Detective Frank Serpico and vanishing wildlife. There is a joke on the liberal cocktail circuit that if Clark were told that the "nauga" was an endangered species, he would demand a ban on the sale of Naugahyde furniture. He seemed to be too much of a causemonger for even cause-prone New Yorkers...
Joining Wald in endorsing Clark were Paul A. Samuelson, Institute Professor of Economics at MIT and Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law. In addition, Charles R. Nesson '60, professor of Law and former defense counsel for Daniel Ellsberg '52 and Phillip and Daniel Berrigan, and Patrick H. Caddell '72, founder of Cambridge Survey Research, yesterday voiced support for Clark...
...Sargent has honest liberal instincts," said Nesson, former defense counsel for Daniel Ellsberg '52, and Daniel and Philip Berrigan. "Those liberals who support Dukakis are making the kid's mistake of trading a bird in the hand for two in the bush. In the process, they are doing a disservice to bipartisan liberalism," he said...