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60M by poi LbcksvPda,13615*Fitcli!(Black Star); courtesy Bucknell 'Univ. pfd _rit4 crert;Lex2---.._ / TZ7 -- -- slIk4c3-Lt- hit- 2 . c a Philip Berrigan (c.) at federal prison in Dan- IL Philip and Daniel Berrigan. B. Letter from Sister Elizabeth McAlister smuggled to Philip Berrigan. C. bury, Conn. D. House in Weston, Conn., where meeting took place. E. Prison informer Boyd Douglas who smuggled letters for Philip Berrigan. F. Five• of the defendants: from left, Eqbal Ahmad, Father Joseph Wenderoth, Anthony Scoblick, Sister Elizabeth McAlister, Father Neil McLaughlin. ur THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, MAY .17, 1971 :0Time Inc. The"plot"to kidnap Henry Kissinger. Though the 6 people knew one ants will testify in their own another, they were not close defense at their conspiracy friends. But each was close to trial next fall. Father Daniel Berrigan, and on In a nation whose conscience the evening of August 17, 1970, is troubled by 10 years of the they sat on a screened porch in Vietnam war, the case is a kind Weston, Conn., discussing his of real-life morality play. It's an capture of a few days before. important story, and it's the The government charges that kind of story that's made Life during that meeting they for- the mostcimportant publication mulated a plot to kidnap presi- in the country dential aide Henry Kissinger. Because Life is conscious of Through confidential sources, the things that affect this coun- Lee Lockwood pieced together try and the people in it. the conversation that took place. Which is why the people in it, The account, one may assume, readers and advertisers alike, is essentially what the defend- are conscious of Life. .