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Acerbic Views. Berrigan's speech was still causing trouble last week. The American Jewish Congress protested plans to give Berrigan the Gandhi Peace Prize next month. And the Rev. Donald Harrington of the Community Church of New York withdrew from the presentation. Berrigan "has ceased to be a witness for peace," Harrington said. "His speech was not a prophetic utterance, only an inflammatory...
...first time in months, Nixon found time for minor ceremonial events. He greeted Miss National Teenager, Betty Nightingale, 17, of Fort Fairfield, Me. He welcomed the Most Rev. Jean Jadot, Apostolic Delegate to the U.S., even though the delegate had arrived July 12. The President accepted from Country-Western Singer Tex Ritter a record of excerpts from Nixon speeches narrated by Ritter and titled Thank You, Mr. President. He received petitions of support signed by 46,000 people in Shreveport and Bossier City, La. At twilight Friday, Nixon, applauded by Boy Scouts and Camp Fire girls, pushed a button...
...murder, arson and robbery-even when they have political overtones-have clear equivalents in all languages and systems of jurisprudence. They provide few extradition difficulties. A London magistrate had no trouble in deciding to order the extradition of James Earl Ray to stand trial for the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., even though Ray raised a political claim...
Every Sunday in Los Angeles' First Unitarian Church, the Rev. Peter Christiansen passes petitions among his congregation calling for the impeachment of President Nixon. In Kansas City, the United Prayer Movement calls a day of prayer to ask God's help for the country. On Long Island, the Jewish journal Sh 'ma cites Talmudic teaching that "the executive is not above...
Still, the Rt. Rev. Richard S. Emrich, retired Episcopal Bishop of Michigan, cautions against overemphasizing the idea that "an evil system is corrupting good men." In Watergate, Emrich believes, "we are facing a more profound truth-that men corrupt good institutions, that the corruption must be traced back to the human heart...