Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rewriting of the indictments after questioning more people, the grand jury added charges that the group also conspired to steal and destroy Selective Service records and that some of the members last year had "committed depredations" against draft board offices in Philadelphia and Delaware and had vandalized a draft office in Rochester, N.Y. The original charges of conspiring to kidnap Kissinger and to blow up heating tunnels for Government buildings in Washington were retained...
...release of the letters disclosed much of the Government's case. It contends that at least ten letters were exchanged between Philip Berrigan and Sister Elizabeth between May 24 and Aug. 22, 1970, while Berrigan was in the U.S. Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa., serving a sentence for destroying draft records at Catonsville and Baltimore, Md. The two, as well as Eqbal Ahmad, are charged with sending these letters in and out of the prison. The actual smuggler of the correspondence, however, is not charged, presumably because he cooperated in giving copies of the letters...
...kidnapers, according to the letter, would also demand the end of B-52 bombing in Indochina and the release of "political prisoners" held in U.S. jails, apparently a reference to youths convicted of draft evasion and crimes related to radical activities. The letter indicates that the writer had no illusions that the demands would be met. But if the plot were not attempted, it said, someone else might do it "badly," and it would "end in fiasco or violence & killing...
...defendants are Mary Cain Scoblick, 32, a former nun and wife of Defendant Anthony Scoblick, 30, a former priest, and John Theodore Glick, 21, who is in prison for vandalizing draft offices. Other defendants are two priests, the Rev. Joseph R. Wenderoth, 35, and the Rev. Neil R. McLaughlin, 30, and Eqbal Ahmad, 40, a fellow at the Adlai Stevenson Institute of International Affairs in Chicago...
...indicated that "the draft thing and the black-white struggle and everything else that I'm involved in had to have some effect on the decision." But he promised to minimize such influences in the projected Frazier rematch. "Next time we'll try to fix it where there's no doubt; because he must...