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lC000 18 15 1 '- . . . . . . . . * . ' . ' la3 * I O January 1970 SITUATION. INFOR MATION R EPOR T . ' Trial of the 'Chicago 1" (Continued) - . - Spectators returning to Judgc Julius Hoffman's Chicapo . courtroom on 12 Deccmbcr were treated to more of "wet" Allen Ginsberg'. creativity, as he recited poetry, with frcaucnt inter- to calm crowds during convention disorders. After direct testi- mony, deSensc attorney William Kunstlcr objected to a nrasecy- tion rcqucit for e a r l y recess briar to cross-examination, clairr- in8 a delay would cost the dcfense two witnesses unable to remain in Chicigo until Monday. W. S. attorney Thomas A.. F a r a n argued that the defense had been granted r e c e s s e s after each nf 54 3tnse- crition witneeses. Kunstlcr continued to protest, loudlv enough for Judge Hoffman to admonish him for shouting. and allow you to be disrespectful to this cmurt," said thr Judge. Kunstlcr r e d i c d , "Your honor has shouted too. '' Haffman'ordcred . witness stand. 8 es 8 ion. . ruptians to chant "Om" - he used th-is.myrtica1 chant, he claimed, ~ t I ~ v . i l l not sit h e r e . his remarks out in the rccard. Ginsberg chantrd "Om" from the Thc Judgc ordered him down and recessed the 0 That afternoon, Ginsher8 was allowed to recite m o r e oactry, apparently a prosecution effort to get some of his "vivid sexual ima- gery" and frequent obscenities into the trial tranecriot. Following the colorful Ginsberg to the stand, William Styron, Pulitzer Prize wiiining authnr of "The Confessions of Nat fiirner, '' testified that policc "hurled people) through the broken window" of a Conrad Hilton Hotcl bar and chased neaple through the bar and into thc lobby of thc Convention IIcadquar tc rs hotel. . The trial's thirteenth wcck (15-13 Dcccmbcr) WRS marked by Iwiplitcncd dcfcnscl-prosccrition histrionics and accrisations, cortrt- rami ontbu;sts and h a r s h rulings by a jriBEr? incrcasinply irritated by rlcfcnsc efforta In nrnkeaa shanthlcs nf h i s court. tVitncsscs in- rludcd a young undcrproana n e w s p a k t renortcr n n m d hngris 4 News editor and publbher Thomas W. Pew, stage director Jacoues 54 ',. MacKenzie, radicaX acti6ist Linda Morsc, Troy (Ohia) Evening .. L. . . - - - .