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pa) a By CAL TURNER _ Evening News Staff Writer : Turning back the pages of time, the ‘Harrisburg Defense Committee last © night ushered Alger-Hiss and William . Hinton to the front.of the sanctuary of OOS or hs “ ae repre eee near fe * wereey Alger Hiss at Augsburg Lutheran Church nites. at ates ‘i , . quaint about 400 young anti-war activ- “. ists with well-chronicled trials and tri- - bulations of another era. - “Tf applause was an indication, then ” the audience cared. - —Evening News Phote urgé Lutheran Church to ac- - passed secret State Department pa- " sentence, maintains his innocence. . Now a senior citizen, Hiss, still a are familiar to me from another day.” A gaunt man of stern demeanor with a ‘ived a large number of talents apart in | ‘the making of U.S. foreign policy.” He, “een described as “the MacCarthy Hiss and Hinton and a pretty South Vietnamese woman, Ce Anh Tu, took i caustic looks and bites out of Amer- ica’s China policy of the last 20 years. Hiss, convicted in 1950 on. two charges of perjury for denying he had pers to Whittaker Chambers, a con- fessed former Communist agent, he [ still, after serving a five-year prison | | z picture of urbanity, the pipe-smoking contemplative man, said, ‘Many of the moments of feeling and aspirations bridgework of eyebrows, he, last night, was to symbolize the ‘“‘repression and. | oppression of the 1940s and 50s.” He said the “purge” of the State | Department during that time “depr- | , of course, was supposedly one of those | talents. It happened during what has witchhunt era,’”? and prominent in the ball game was Richard M. Nixon, then a freshman congressman. Particular- ly, where Hiss was concerned. —~ ! Introduced by Egbal Ahmad, a Pa- ‘kastani scholar and,a defendant in the conspiracy trial-at' the Federal Build- eer mirteteetenalmeneman a ainnamitlee mentee ontith See HISS~Page 12 103676