Books: Minotaur or Man?

THE DARK NIGHT OF RESISTANCE by Daniel Berrigan, 181 pages. Doub/ecfay, $5.95.

For four months Father Daniel Berrigan, convicted of burning draft files at Catonsville, Md., was that melodramatic figure, a fugitive from justice. Before his capture by FBI agents posing as bird watchers on Block Island, R.I., that rainy morning of Aug. 11, 1970, Berrigan had traveled through his own bold underground. He gave out secret interviews to press and television, held discussion meetings within the movement, and wrote, wrote, wrote. It is safe to say that no fugitive in FBI history...

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