Word: eqbal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...behalf, the defendants' cause was stridently reiterated in the Easter week demonstrations in Harrisburg that attracted speakers ranging from Alger Hiss and the Rev. Ralph Abernathy to Daniel Ellsberg and Congresswoman Bella Abzug. "We have a feeling that we are celebrating something of a victory," said Sister Elizabeth. Eqbal Ahmad, a Pakistani scholar and the only non-Catholic defendant, announced to cheering supporters: "My plans are to get out of here as soon as I can and go into the streets to protest the Viet Nam War. We have not been frightened by the Government." Referring to the prison...
...hostage until their demands to end the Viet Nam War were met. The other defendants are: Sister Elizabeth McAlister, 32, an intense, intelligent nun of the order of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary; Mary Cain Scoblick, 33, a former nun, and her husband, Anthony, a priest; Eqbal Ahmad, 41, a fellow at the Adlai Stevenson Institute of International Affairs in Chicago; and Baltimore Ghetto Priests Neil McLaughlin, 31, and Joseph Wenderoth...
Boudin, visiting 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...
...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...
...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...