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k 0 0 0 18 1 .. < - - her hueband, and another Cornell student were filming and tape record- irlg events in front of the Hilton when police charged into the ranks of the demon8trators "beating people and pushing people up against build- .ings." She said a policeman hit her with his club about the neck and shoulders and beat across the node a man who tried to help her. She also testified to haviag been "mated" twice while trying to film con- frontations. All six witnesses reportedly agreed that the police initi- ated the confrontations and used unnecessary force. A film taken by Mrs. Diarnant was shorn to the court at the request of the defense-- portions of which the prosecution objected to as "clearly editorial. " * \ During the day, Attorney Leonard f. Weinglass accused Judge Hoffman of showing favoritism when he' refuaeii to permit Fred Gard- , ner, radical writer and editor, to continue to testify about what some of the defendant8 told him during the Convention. He had already testi- fied that Tom Hayden told him that two policemen threatened to kill him, and had begun to testify about a threat aliegedly made against the life of Abbie Hoffman. 4' .* b On 11 December, the defense pr$se'nted as witnesses Allen Ginsberg, the "poet", and Phil Ocha, .proteat slngtr, According to radio reports, the two nearly succekded iq.turni.ng tbe court into a sort of circus, what with chanting, singing, and playing on mutrical instruments;'and did succeed in causing Judge Hoffman to adjourn the trial. As an account of Ginsbeirg's confrontation with Judge Hoffman in court can best be appreciated in as full detail as possible, a copy of the New York Times account is attached. Meanwhile, out of court, the defendants continued to pursue their outside octivitiea--speaking, writing, giving interviews, etc. Tom Hayden, whose latest book "Repression and Rebellion" has just come off the press, wrote in an article on the "conspiracy" trial which appeared in the Guardian on 29 November, "We are attempt- ing to create a political trial this time with wide international reper- .- cussions. '' He commented that the COUX%S, which earlier, "protected our right to continue the struggle", are "today.. . more nearly the assembly points on the road to detention camps"; and he concluded his article: "Knowing that 'the decade of protest' is over, and our rulers have had their fair trial, can we do anything less than find the Govern- ment guilty and sentence it to death and go on with the building of a society of our own?" . 4 ?