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ee ef VRE af : cede) rar ree nn be. yey a ao | Let haf RON etme ARR lo eS So at ASS —_~ | 9 ms unr NY 100-161445 copy of the "New —— issue number 1, which the source { described as the newspaper of the New Mobilization Committee { to End the War in Vietnam (NMCEWV). The newspaper on Page 1, contained an article entitled "Fall Offensive to Culminate in Massive Demonstrations" which stated in part as follows: "CHICAGO “Rennie Davis, Dave Dellinger, Tom Hayden, John Froines, Abbié Hoffman, verry Rubin, Bobopy Seale and Lee Weiner are now under federal indictment for ‘criminal conspiracy’. The eight, all prominently a part of the mass demonstrations during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, are the first persons to be charged with conspiracy under Title 18 of the Civil Rights Act of 1968.. This makes it a felony to ‘travel in interstate commerce...with the intent to incite, promote, encourage, participate in and carry on a riot...’ ma nna maaAltiaa 4 43a Faced by a potently political challenge, the eight defendants have determined on a political response as well as @ legal defense. Through their trial they will carry forward the first constitutional challenge to the anti-riot act. They intend, as well, to re-focus public attention on the root issues that brought them and thousands of others to Chicago and the Democratic National Convention; the War, racism, the widening power of the military-academic- industrial complex, the enfeeble- ment of the nation's political process. The eight refuse to be tet tient Aart —:n 7 intimidated by the government's scare label of ‘conspiracy: they call themselves The Conspiracy. And they confront one of the most ominous challenges to political liberty since the passing of Sen. Mc Carthy." -T7- Lui WE piAL