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  1. Berrigan, Daniel 1921- and Philip 1924-. US
  2. Roman Catholic priests. The brothers,
  3. opponents of the Vietnam War, broke into the
  4. draft-records offices at Catonsville,
  5. Maryland, to burn the files with napalm. They
  6. were sentenced in 1968 to three and six
  7. years' imprisonment respectively, but went
  8. underground. Subsequently Philip Berrigan was
  9. tried with others in 1972 for allegedly
  10. conspiring to kidnap President Nixon's
  11. adviser Henry Kissinger and blow up
  12. government offices in Washington, DC; he was
  13. then sentenced to two years' imprisonment.
  14.