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 taking part in a 1970 Philadelphia draft-record burning. FATHER NEIL MCLAUGHLIN, 30, also of Baltimore, went to St. Charles and St. Mary's and came under the Phil Berrigan influence in 1964 while doing summer work at St. Peter Claver Church; he has worked in the Baltimore black ghetto ever since. He turned increasingly to antiwar activity after the riots following the death of Martin Luther King Jr., and was relieved of pastoral duties a year ago.

ANTHONY SCOBLICK, 30, is the son of a former Republican U.S. Representative; he left Phil Berrigan's Josephite order last June to marry Mary Cain, an ex-nun. (FBI men searching for the fugitive Dan Berrigan interrupted the wedding.) He has since worked with Wenderoth and McLaughlin among Baltimore blacks, earning money as a part-time taxi driver and janitor.

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