The Nation: The Four Defendants

EQBAL AHMAD, 40, was born in what is now Pakistan; his father, a public official, was assassinated when Ahmad was four. He first came to the U.S. on a Fulbright in 1957, took a Ph.D. at Princeton, met Dan Berrigan when both were at Cornell. He is now a specialist in politics and international relations at the Adlai Stevenson Institute in Chicago.

FATHER JOSEPH WENDEROTH, 35, was more interested in sports than anything else at St. Charles College and St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore. His journey into radicalism began as a priest serving Baltimore blacks; he was relieved of pastoral duties after...

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