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CO 0 0.1 8 2 2 3 I ' f,- .'. . I e . ! 24'*May 1973 4 SITGATION INFORMATION REPORT The Communist Party, USA (CPUSA) is in the process of trying to organize a new national multi-issue front organization to replace its antiwar contingent, the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice (FCPJ). This %nited front" concept is a typical CPUSA tactic implemented to attract broad-W&d support from minority, religious, and nonaligned U. S. revolutionaries. tional Defense Organization AqainsL (NDO) plans to focus its attention on lice brutali,ty4 political repression, and the U. S. legal system. "leftist" groups who met in New York City on March 17 for a national pre-conference meeting organized by Charlene Mitchell, C PUSA candidate for the U. S. Presidency in 1068. Support for the NDO is'being generated by a number of diverse A national organizing conference sponsored by the Rev. Ralph AbernaLhy, Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Rev. Dan Berrigan; Julian Bond; Prof. Noam Chomsky, MIT; Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich); Bert Corona of Casa Hermanidad; Ricardo Cruz, Mcxican- American Legal Defense and Education Fund, L. A. ; Rep. Ronald Dellums (D-Calif. 1; Patrick Gorman, president, Amalgamated Meat- cutters and Butchers; Rev. James Groppi; Fannie Lou IIamer; William Kunstlor, attorney; John Lewis, Southern Voters Education Projcct; Alfred Lopez, Puerto Rican Socialist Party; Javier Rodriguez, Los Tres del Earrio Defense Committee; Modjeska Simkins, president, Southern Cbnferencc Education M d ; Jarvis Tyncr, chairman, Young Workers Liberation League, and Henry Winston, chairman of the Coinrnunist Party, USA, was held in Chicago, Illinois on May 11-13, 1973 to launch the NDO. . . . ,. ' U