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Cunningham argued for dismissal of the last six-indictments, which charge that Sister Elizabeth McAlister and Father Philip Berrigan sent letters in and out of the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary without the knowledge or permission of the warden. Cunningham argued that the statute under which they are charged violates the First Amendment...
...mail. Nothing daunted, however, the persistent Bernsteins last week gave another political party in their Park Avenue pad. This time, it was Catholic Chic: 125 guests (including Producer-Director Harold Prince, Composer-Lyricist Stephen Sondheim and Cartoonist-Playwright Jules Feiffer) raised some $35,000 to help defend Father Philip Berrigan, Sister Elizabeth McAlister, and the other six antiwarriors accused of plotting to kidnap Henry A. Kissinger and blow up some of the federal heating system. For some reason, nobody from the press was invited...
...Vatican aide cited approvingly both the U.S. activities of the Berrigan brothers (provided they did not resort to violent methods) and the widespread campaign to improve living conditions for migrant workers. He also pointed to the dedication of Archbishop Helder Pessōa Cāmara of Recife to Brazil's poor, and the work of Peruvian Bishop Luis Barbarén, "the slum bishop," who devotes his time to the slum dwellers around Lima. One common denominator of such forthright action is a degree of risk, as Bishop Barbarén found out last week; Peruvian authorities arrested...
...least ten Berrigan case witnesses called before the Federal Grand Jury in Harrisburg, Pa., face jail sentences for refusing to testify before it. Sister Jogues Egan was called and refused to testify in January, shortly after the Grand Jury issued indictments against Father Philip Berrigan and five others charging them with conspiracy...
...professor of Law at Harvard and attorney to defendant Eqbal Ahmsd, filed a motion for dismissal last week on behalf of all defenseattorneys in the case. His motion followed the government's release on April 30 of two letters allegedly written by defendants Sister Elizabeth McAlister and Father Philip Berrigan...