Word: berrigans
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...Berrigan and four others-the Rev. Joseph R. Wenderoth, the Rev. Neil R. McLaughlin, former priest Anthony Scoblick, and Eqbal Ahmad, a fellow at the Adlai Stevenson Institute of Public Affairs in Chicago-accused the Government of using the charges to discredit opposition to the Vietnam...
...Philip Berrigan and four of his co-defendants denied yesterday they were part of a Washington bomb conspiracy or a plot to kidnap former Harvard professor Henry A. Kissinger '50, President Nixon's advisor on national security affairs...
...Both Berrigan brothers are serving federal prison terms for destruction of Selective Service records at Catonsville...
...Daniel Berrigan was not named as a defendant in the indictment, but was cited as a conspirator along with seven other persons. No charges were filed against the eight co-conspirators...
...Berrigan and his brother Daniel, also a Roman Catholic priest, were accused of the plot by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover late last year in testimony before a Senate subcommittee. Hoover linked the plot to a move to force the United States to leave Vietnam and to release alleged political prisoners...