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Uses T rial As Vehiclemmmthe defense ereHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) —'ment an estimated $1 million, Heading The Rev. Phillip Berrigan and and the defense probably half Ramsey Clark, 43, a former atsix codefendants go on trial to-ithat much, day on antiwar conspiracy! Berrigwi was brought to the charges which include an accu- Dauphin County Prison last sation that they plotted to kid week from the Danburynap presidential adviser Henry (Conn.) Correctional In A. Kissinger. 1 stitution. He has been meetingBerrigan urged his followers with his codefendants and thetorney general and son of a retired Supreme Court justice, and Leonard B. Boudin, 60, a Harvard University law profes-to use the trial as a vehicle to I seven defense lawyers.The 48-year oldI*revive the antiwar movement.“Instead of over concern fori*revolutionary us, how about using the trial as serving a six year an occasion for giving rebirth burning and pouringto the movement?” Berrigan blo{K* on draft files in Haiti-said in a written statement |mnre and Catonsville, Md. His read by one of his attorneys tolP[‘p*‘ brother, Daniel, is at 200 supporters holding a peace Banbury on similar di.iit raidservice outside the Dauphin cna'ges.County prison Sunday night. i ^he government alleges the—. J . t . . , . . | plan to kidnap Kissinger wasThe priest is confined at the ^ d ■ 1970'while ,.hi|ip Berprison and will be the only one |.1Ran *sor.The chief prosecutor is Deputy Atty. Gen. William S. Lynch. He was promoted to a leading role in the Justice Departself-styled „is ment’s organized crime sectionterm for when Clark was attorney gei^r-human al in 1968.Besides Berrigan, the otherdefendants are:Sister Elizabeth McAlister. 32. on leave as professor of art history at Marymount College. Tarrytown, N.V.; Dr. Eqbal Ahmad. 41. a Pakistani studying in Chicago; the Revs. Neiland Joseph. . . . . . . . was imprisoned at the McLaughlin, 31,of the defendants to remain in p,.nhlary I,ewis Wrndm-lh. M. of Baltimore:rustndv during the trial lie is p„ro no miles north of here.iAnthony Scoblick, .11, Baiti-serving a sentence for destruc- B *tion of draft board records.Two other priests, a nun, a Pakistani scholar, and a formerand formerpriest ana former nun now married to each other go on trial with Berrigan. He was named by the government as the mastermind of the alleged scheme that also included blows.tslea-ing up heating tunnels to federal buildings Nl Washington and vandalizing draft board officesacross the nation.and that the priest wrote about it in a letter apparently smuggled out by an inmate informerattending classes at nearby Mary, 33. a^former^ ntin. Bucknell University.more, a former priest and son of an ex-congressman from Pennsylvania, and his wife,John T. Glick, 22. of Lancas-That inmate was Boyd1;ter. Pa., recently freed from Douglas, now on parole. He is prison while appealing an 18-expected to be a key prosecution witness.month draft board raiding sen tence, will be tried later.dlkAn eighth defendant, a con victed draft file destroyer, will be tried separately. The judge severed him from the currentcase when he insisted on acting as his own lawyer.A panel of 175 prospective iurers has been summoned to thecourtroom of U.S. District Court Judge R. Dixon Herman. A dozen will be seated to hear a-; the case. Four alternates also of are to be chosen.| The courtroom, on the ninth floor of the new federal build-o-isleofstirrevealedhotel, Yevtushenkothat he might stop writing poetry this year and turn to proseorBy LYNN SHERRAssociated Press WriterTRENTON N J (AP)_avoiding what he calls the (instead. He is already working “slippery political questions” of on a novel.American journalists, Soviet Admittedly fatigued by an expoet Yevgeny Yevtushenko no hausting four days of social netheless indulged in the events, at which he chatted world’s most popular diplomat with such persons as Nixon ad ic sport, Ping Pong. viser Henry Kissinger, actor^ .served for newsmen. The trial; Displaying a wicked back Warren Beatty and author Kurt ’ is expected to last three hand serve and a tendency to Vonnegut, Jr., Yevtushenkomonths. It will cost the govern- nout when he missed the point, i rubbed his eyes and chain-;I ing across the street from the ug state Capitol, is heavily guard • ed. Passes are needed for the ‘ 80 spectator seats, half re-h-r.I..I
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Odessa American
Odessa, Texas, US
Mon, Jan 24, 1972
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