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lCOO0 18 14 6- . that the'Free City Survival Committee, a group of Chicago Hippies, had given up their permit because they feared the planned events in Lincoln Park during the Convention would "not be a festival of life but a festival of blood." At a meeting on 12 August, David Dellinger and Rennie Davis both warned that many American were willing to use vio- lence if necessary to obtain their civil rights. During the afternoon of 26 August, in Lincoln Park, Abbie Hoffman warned several times that unlers the demonstrators were given facilities for a rock concert, they would "tear this Coddam park apart. Io; and when several demon- strators began closing in on the police and heaving atones and other objects, Mr. Baugher said he heard Hoffman mutter "This is beautiful, this is beautiful.'' .. Upon completion of Mr. Baugher's testimony which terminated the case for the prosecution, and dter his cross-examination by defense lawyers, the defense immediately moved for a-directed verdict of' acquittal-Attorney Kunstler stating that defiepse arguments on the request would be extensive. Judge Hoffman, replied. "only as extensive as f'permit it to be,"; and during the folle&g .. session of court rejected the motion. . . * , i' Earlier Judge Hoffman had qwshed"a defense -subpoena of con- fidential FBI 'records, to include all reports on the 'defendants and alleged eo-conspirators as well as reports besulting from electronic surveillance; and the addresses of all agents and informers. quashed a demand that FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover testify, saying that it war a "fishing" expedition. - H e also The trial of thq "Chicago 7" during the presentation of the case for the defense, which began on Monday, qecember 8. promises to be no less unorthodox than it was .during the ten weeks of the prosecution's presentation. In an interview shortly before the defense opened. Tom Hayden stated that the jury will be invited to "commit civil disobedience against the Judge's (final) instructions.. . Chicago 1968 will be recreated. 'I . He said that the "hidden issuesvo behind the "persecution:' of the defend- anta will be disclosed and that the defense will prove that the seven acted'legally and "came to Chicago as participants in the recreation of a new society in tho streets.. . which continues its growth with its own natural laws, structures, language, and symbols. It The defense will. he said, argue the necessity of revolution against "dinosaurs controlling an obsolete system. 'I. . - 8