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A.the)adMS*calItsfrorfertBAbilIpoli ! a pihisomnthXTque:I “1busiHi shir(lit*Kieicetbeck,Lin*italHAHRISBl'RG, Pa. (AP) -The government tells a trial jury today how it hopes to prove that antiwar priest Philip Berrigan plotted from a prison cell with six eodefendants tokidnap presidential adviser Henry Kissinger in an effort to force America out of Vietnam.ore’ser-idsmewoChief prosecutor William Lynch, a special U.S. attorney general, expected to spend about an hour sketching the details of the alleged conspiracy which also included blowing up heating tunnels in Washington and vandalizing draft board offices.jury as part of a plan Dy the priest and his codefendants to put the war on trial.Lynch said, however, the case concerns only criminal charges: conspiring against the United States in violation of the law.It took four weeks to find a jury of nine women and three men, plus six alternates, tospotmodhaiihear the trial before U.S. District Court Judge R. Dixon Her- nmman. jLynch said the governmentwill* take about a month to puton nearly 80 witnesses.Clark, during the lengthy interrogation of prospective jurors. acknowledged that thetrial might last as long as threeEthefeetendwailrestEmonths.dail;choiDonald McKinney Bidsi littliatoneaidur-tolThe defense, although still trying to move the trial out of what it calls conservative, prejudiced middle Pennsylvania,said it is ready to proceed.For College TrusteeshipThe11.irsofrayrieich)hstoeight-lawyer defense team is headed by former Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark. When he was Lynch’s boss he named the prosecutor to his special post in the Justice Department’s organized crime section.The defense will have one orDonald McKinney, life-long resident of Howard County, filed Monday as a candidate trustee of Howard County Junior College.He resides six miles northeast of Big Spring on the Snyder highway near the Center Pointwhere hemore opening statements after Lynch outlines his case.iIt has been rumored that at least one of the defendants— possibly the 48-year-old Ber-commumty wnere ne was reared. He also is employed at Cosden Oil and ChemicalCompany where he is an assistant electric foreman.The son of Mrs. and the lateirigan—may seek to address theaht|J. B. McKinney, he was born here and attended high school in Big Spring before going to John Tarleton College. However, his education was inter-sav : lari;Hi theAirent‘Me inironsmil441wonnotfcDiof t ban loek
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Big Spring Daily Herald
Big Spring, Texas, US
Mon, Feb 21, 1972
Page 6
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