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...been accused or convicted of conspiracy, the most elusive crime on the books. The crime can be little more than an intention: an agreement between two or more people to do something illegal. Federal law and many state laws add the stipulation that at least one conspirator take an overt step, not necessarily an illegal one. But so sprawling and elastic is the legal conception that the late Judge Learned...
...satisfy the peculiar requirements of conspiracy statutes,-the grand jury went on to list 22 separate overt acts of conspiracy by the defendants and their coconspirators. Among the alleged acts: a visit to the underground tunnel system "on or about April 1, 1970," by Philip Berrigan and a Baltimore priest defendant, Father Joseph Wenderoth; and a discussion of the tunnel network last September between Wenderoth and an unnamed General Services Administration engineer. In separate counts, the grand jury also accused Philip Berrigan and Marymount Nun Elizabeth McAlister (see box) of illegally smuggling written communications in and out of the federal...
...have even had instances of overt discrimination, times when Indians have been beaten, or when handicapped children have had to walk three miles because the local school has refused to pick them up," Yudof added...
Determined to perform as a lawyer, not a polemicist, Tigar calmly points out that nearly all the "overt acts" cited by the Government against the defendants consist of meetings and speeches. Dressed in a sober suit, white shirt and tie, Tigar began his opening statement to the jury by promising to be "mercifully brief." He was. "Conspiracy deals in essence with the contents of men's minds," he said in part. "That is the simple heart of this case...
Many factors have contributed to this overt manifestation of popular discontent- the heavy physical and moral costs of the fighting (over a quarter of the population is confined to refugee camps); the rapidly deteriorating economic situation (between June 1966 and February 1970, the cost of living in Saigon rose by 300 percent); the miniaturization of Vietnamese society (more than two million men are now under arms in the South); and, ironically, "Vietnamization" itself. For as the American presence in Saigon decreases, long pent-up opposition to the Thieu regime has mounted. And in response, the Saigon government is forced...