Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pacifists, many of them Roman Catholics, some priests and nuns, a physics professor and a Moslem from Pakistan. The leading actors: two hotly controversial priests ?Philip Berrigan, 47, a Josephite, and his Jesuit brother Daniel, 49, both now in the Danbury, Conn., federal prison serving sentences for burning draft records with napalm in May 1968. The plot: a seemingly irrational conspiracy to blow up the heating systems at some five Government sites on Washington's Birthday, 1971, then next day kidnap Henry Kissinger, the President's national security adviser, and hold him hostage until Nixon agreed to speed...
...events that led up to last week's indictments, the Berrigan circle?a very loosely organized group that numbers 50 to 100 militants ?had been discussing for more than a year various means to dramatize its opposition to the war. One tactic was a continuation of draft-board raids. Another approach was the kidnaping-bombing plan, which some in the circle objected to as violent. Others argued that neither kidnaping nor bombing constituted violence in a moral sense, since no person would be physically harmed. According to this account, because something more serious than burning draft records was involved...
...theory has it that the Government's source of information on the kidnap-bomb plot was a group of non-religious in the circle who became alarmed once discussion turned seriously to use of tougher tactics than those employed in the raid that the Berrigans had led against the draft board at Catonsville, Md. The principal informer was not an infiltrator but an active member of the conspiracy, although not one of those named in last week's indictment. The details of the Kissinger plot were spelled out, astonishingly, in letters and hand-carried messages exchanged among the principal conspirators...
...Baltimore draft board. Seven months later, with Daniel now enlisted in the cause, the Catonsville Nine struck with their homemade napalm. and newsmen and photographers were on hand to record the burning of Selective Service records...
FATHER JOSEPH WENDEROTH, 35, was more interested in sports than anything else at St. Charles College and St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore. His journey into radicalism began as a priest serving Baltimore blacks; he was relieved of pastoral duties after taking part in a 1970 Philadelphia draft-record burning. FATHER NEIL MCLAUGHLIN, 30, also of Baltimore, went to St. Charles and St. Mary's and came under the Phil Berrigan influence in 1964 while doing summer work at St. Peter Claver Church; he has worked in the Baltimore black ghetto ever since. He turned increasingly to antiwar...