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...Father Daniel Berrigan's The Trial of the Catonsville Nine is a play in name only. It is a documentary recital of evidence presented at the trial of Berrigan, his brother Philip and seven other Catholic defendants in connection with the napalm burning of draft records at Catonsville, Md. Insofar as it can be classified, Nine falls within the area of the theater of fact. The subjects discussed have particular pertinence for a U.S. audience: the maltreatment of blacks, the exploitation of the poor in Latin American countries, the war in Viet Nam. This is an appeal...
Both Berrigans are currently serving terms in a Federal prison for destroying Selective Service records in Baltimore, Md...
...allegations against Koster. There was "some evidence" to support the other two: that the commander failed to report the civilian casualties he knew about and that he did not "ensure a proper and thorough initial investigation." Lieut. General Jonathan Seaman, commanding general of the First Army at Fort Meade, Md., decided to drop the case. His reasons were that Koster had had a "long and honorable career," and that there was no evidence of any "intentional abrogation of responsibilities" on his part...
Returnable Cars. At least 100 municipalities, universities and industries are working on the solid-waste problem. Max Spendlove, research director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines' Metallurgy Research Center at College Park, Md., is reclaiming glass and metals from res- idue scooped from incinerators. At a cost of $3.52 a ton, he says, his methods yield materials with a potential market value of $12 a ton. Last week New York City's environmental protection administrator. Je- rome Kretchmer. suggested a way to recycle the 73,000 cars that New Yorkers abandon on the streets each year. He urged...
...more sympathy than antipathy in the capital, where he still retains a strange kind of trust. Just a few days earlier, he was able to borrow more than $500,000 from several banks to continue a condominium development he has started next to his Carousel motel in Ocean City, Md. Still, he says, "Russia wouldn't have treated me the way this country has." In the next breath he adds: "But I have no great resentment. No, this is a great country. It's done a lot for me. I like to think I have done...