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William M. Kunsbler charged Saturday night that the Federal government is conspiring to "destroy the antiwar movement" by prosecuting the Rev. Philip Berrigan and five others in Harrisburg...
...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...
...grand jury termed 7 others, including Daniel Berrigan, "co-conspirators," but failed to indict them...
...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...