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Presidential Aide Henry Kissinger recently met with three of the alleged co-conspirators in the Berrigan case-the plot to kidnap Kissinger and blow up Government buildings. For 75 minutes they engaged in a polite discussion of U.S. policy in Indochina, but neither side came close to converting the other. Another, more amicable dialogue took place last August between Harvard Psychiatrist Robert Coles, author of Erik H. Erikson, the Growth of His Work, and Father Daniel Berrigan, just before Berrigan was captured by federal agents. Berrigan was convicted in 1968 of burning draft records in Catonsville...
...bombing last year of 32 buildings across the country that are owned or leased by the Federal Government. Well before last week's explosion, security at all federal buildings had already been tightened in the wake of the alleged plot by the Berrigan brothers (TIME, Jan. 25) to kidnap Henry Kissinger and blow up heating ducts in the capital's underground area. The 7.5-mile tunnel system that connects the basements of Government office buildings in Washington has been equipped with an alarm system and most of its manholes sealed...
...letters also discuss possible tactics that might have been used once the kidnap-or "citizen's arrest"-had been made...
...alleged conspiracy with which they are charged has been expanded to include conspiracy to destroy Selective Service files in addition to plans to kidnap Kissinger and blow up heating tunnels in Washington...
...NIXON Administration has repeatedly sought to identify the entire movement with its most extreme elements-"the violent people," President Nixon called them on Monday. The indictments against Philip Berrigan and five others for conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and to purchase and transport explosives over state lines for the purpose of blowing up heating tunnels in the capital fall into this pattern quite neatly. This does not seem like the behavior one would expect from priests and nuns whose dedication to non-violence is well-known. But the record shows that the government will try anything it thinks...