CLERGYMEN CONVICTED
Four Vietnam war protesters were convicted April 16 in Baltimore, Maryland, of "mutilating and destroying government records and interfering with the Selective Service program." They poured animal blood on draft records.
The four were the Rev. Philip E. Berrigan, 44, curate of St. Peter Claver Church; David Eberhardt, 26, secretary of the Baltimore Interfaith Peace Mission; the Rev. James L. Mengel, 38; and Thomas Lewis, 27, a Baltimore artist.
Father Berrigan testified that he and the others were "tormented by anger"
interpretation of events for publications of the labor, socialist, colonial independence and black liberation movements. Signed articles represent the view of the authors,
camp."
"But what about your gaiety. Sure-
ly you didn't get that there?"
“Why not? I am gay because I am
used to losing everything."
* * *
These extracts are but a taste of
Solzhenitsyn's new work. This tough, clear-
Sighted antiauthoritarian writer is con-
tinuing in the best traditions of Russian
literature and of the Russian revolution.
FOR PROTESTING VIETNAM WAR
over the death and destruction caused by
American intervention in Vietnam.
The defendants freely admitted hav-
ing participated in the demonstration
last October 27. They said the blood was
used to dramatically symbolize "a dis-
taste for the war and the suffering it
has caused."
Their attorney, Fred E. Weisgal,
said after the verdict that he would file
a motion for a new trial on the grounds
that the defendants had acted in "the best
traditions of American democracy." Sen-
tencing was deferred to a later date.
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