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...indicted-Berrigan. Eqbal Ahmad. Sr. Elizabeth McAlister, Rev. Neil McLaughlin. Anthony Scoblick, and the Rev. Joseph Wenderoth-face possible life imprisonment if convicted of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger and blow up government property...
...Danbury, Conn., federal prison, where they have been since August 1970, Philip Berrigan and his Jesuit brother Daniel are reportedly in good spirits. And there is compelling new evidence that Daniel is improbably cast as a co-conspirator to blow up federal buildings in Washington and kidnap Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger. In a message to the Weathermen, taped last August and printed in the Village Voice last week, Daniel Berrigan spoke forcefully of the need to avoid just that type of violence. "I hope your lives are about something more than sabotage," he said. "No principle is worth the sacrifice...
...many people, the very idea that antiwar priests and nuns ever plotted to kidnap Presidential Advisor Henry Kissinger still seems utterly improbable. But one thing is certain: the indictments naming six defendants and seven coconspirators, including Fathers Philip and Daniel Berrigan, were backed by a man who is convinced that he has a solid case. The cool tactician behind the move was Assistant Attorney General Robert Charles Mardian, 47, an outspoken conservative Republican who heads the Justice Department's Internal Security Division. Mardian is going all out for a guilty verdict...
...weeks ago, that Grand Jury indicted Philip Berrigan and six others for conspiracy to kidnap presidential assistant Henry A. Kissinger '50 and blow up heating systems in Federal buildings. One of the alleged co-con-aspirators who wasn't indicted-Sister Jogues Egan-was just convicted of contempt for refusing to testify before that Grand Jury...
...when he inherited the Roman Empire. "I will give power to youth when the time comes," said Duvalier, "because the future belongs to youth." By youth Papa Doc meant his only son, Jean-Claude, 19, a moonfaced, 200-lb. lad known as Baskethead to his classmates. A 1963 kidnap attempt on Jean-Claude so enraged his father that at least 100 persons, including 65 army officers, were executed. The legend persists that, at 13, the spoiled boy used a palace officer as a pistol target and shot him fatally...