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.* David Dellinger, one of the "activists" in the Venceremos Brigade which is currently involved in sending Americans (many from U.S. campuses) to Cuba to help harvest the sugarcane crop, has found time to be interviewed at length by Radio Havana regard- ing the "Chicago 8". their trial and their roles "in the North Ameri- can radical movement. 'I Typical was his statement regarding Bobby Seale that "He simply stood at the call of hie name and asked that he be allowed to cross-examine the witnesses." This, almost word for word, is the statement invariably made in Communist publications in picturing Sealc's conduct when he was one of the eight defendants in Chicago. According to Dellinger, as phrased by Radio Havana, "the definite purpose" of the trial is "to.'smash the growing antiwar movement in the United States, 'I and "to crush the black liberation. 'I Dellinger pointed out that the last time he spoke with Radio Havana was during the Democratic Nationai Convention. -. Dellinger and Rennie Davis, co-chair,men of the New Mobiliza- tion Committee to End the W a r in Yietnam,:on 26 November released a 1i;t of 59 U. S. military personnel held p'risoner by the Nqrth Viet- namese which they had received some days before from a member of the North Vietnamese delegation to tire Paris peace talks. not previously known to be prisoners of w a r and'wer; carribd as missing in action. days, *I while they tried to find.a way to notify the next of kin; and according to.him, the North Vietnamese wili make public, through him, the names of other Americans being held. Defense criticized the pair for not having released the names immedi- ately--pointing out that a collect telephone call to the Pentagon would immediately have prqvided names of the next of kin. . Five were . Dellinger said they had had the list "for several The Department of I There has continued to be considerable editorial expression of concern over Judge Hoffman's handling of the case and over his lack of judicial restraint and impartiality- - though all concede the strong provocation under which he labors. There has also been at least some editorial expression, even by those on the Left, of the belief that the conduct in court of the 'Chicago SIc has been such that they have pro- voked a reaction which will work against them and their causes. known radical Saul Alinsky has complained that they have committed "the highest form of social treason", which is to engage in actions which bring reactions that strengthen the opposition. Well- 6 8 - I ' . -. _- . .. I