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1co 00 18 ?Ti 2. I, ' . . L . - TRIAL OF' TEEE CHICAGO 8 (Continued) The trial of the ''conspiracy 8" group in chicwo, for their activity i n that city duringthe Democratic National Convention in 1968, has continued, 8s one of the eight.defendants has sald, t o re- semble a three-ring circus with Judge Julius J. Hoffman as ri-ter. Duringthe past week, the court was recessed for three days t o pennit Defense Attorney UilUem M. Kunstler t o argue in a Boston court on Monday, 6 October; and little appears t o have been accomplished during this second week of the trial, though Judge Hofnpan did rule that round-the-clock surveillance, which occuxred during the Convention demonstrations, did not vtolate the defendants' ri@t t o privacy, as vas claimed by the Defense. In derqing a defense motion in that con- nectiorl, the Judge stated that "the right t o speak and assemble does not include the right t o do so in public unobierved." Be&lnning in the afternoon of 2 Octo-, the prosecution concen- trated on Jerry Rubin's actions i n Chicago'during the demonstrations, and an undercover pollce sergeant testified t h a t on the evening of 25 A u g u s t 1968, Rubin told a crowd in Lincoln Park that a squad of eleven policemen was tqdng t o keep the people from usiog the park; shouted, "Let's get these (obscenities) out of here"; R I ~ flicked a cigarette toward the police, af'ter which the crowd began thrating cens, rocks, sticks, etc. On the next evening, accordin& t o tlre witness, Rubin told g large group in the p r k , "The pigs started the violence fight them"; shouted, "They have guns and sticks so we have t o arm a group of ebaut two hundred persons gathered i n Lincoln Park t o at- tend a demonstration,on "how t o fight the pip". Abbie Hoffmao demon- strated a series of motions with hands and knees: & Rubin later re- mindcd those i n the park not t o forget the gigantic love-in planned for the beach that night. The police sergeant further testified that he overheard an identified man (sic) say t o Rubin, Vow is the time for the flares and the fires"; and that Rubin at first dis-eed, but mer the man noted that nothing YBO happening, annrered, "OK, go get them." Rubin was also quoted as shouting at the police: "your children are pigs. You're pigs...take off your guns and w e ' l l fight but tonight the people aren't going t o give up the park...we have t o ourselves vith rocks, sticks, and everything we can get"; and asked ?;x. - C. you hand to hand.@@ On the following day, 3 October, Defense Attorney Kunstler intro- duced i n court "another" Jerry Rubin, a twenty-seven year old assistant = -a-: ,*.- ... - . . . . . . ..- * , e - .