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".. * ! 4 .. ., . . . . -.. .. ? ... . e a r l i e r pacifjst beliefs to an anarchist bositian after viewing the events in Chicago (Morse had been a member of the Fifth Avcnuc Pcace Parade Committee and a National Coordinator of the Students Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vtetnam). "What I saw going a n at the convcntion convinccd me thc notitical ptaccss in this rountry was fall- ' ing apart, I' she'said, She said r h e also told Playboy, "This country is going to ha& ta be changed radicakly through a revolution, and thc revolution will. entatl the use of violenc& both to defend oursclvcs was prepared to die and kill for the revolution, Morse at first said she was, but added "only for relf-defense.'l Later, she said, "I point yet. ' . - and to tear down thc establishment." When Schultz asked h e r if she . still don't know whether I could kill anyone - I haven't reached that .. 4 TKe Convention radicalieed her. sh; claimed, and "Evcntuallv I scc a necd.. .There's no way aut.. .for people to use weapons in guerrilla warfare. She admitted she was learning to use a n hrI-l rifle and practicing karate, presently for self -dcfensc, but aerharm for use one day in a rcvolutianary situation. Mayor Dalcy's tcfnsal to give radicals permits and actions of policc and National Gttard tronprrs convinced hcr, slrc said, "that the system couldn't he changed, that the oolicc state that existed outside. tho conyention alsh cxtc!ndrd insidc, that wc would h a w to defend orirsclvrs or bc wincd nut. I' She conccdcd shc had told Playboy, "The m o m I rcalizr the system is sick, thc more I want to tear it limb from limb," and mentioned thc "horrors perpetrated by this Covctryncnt, 'I su;h as the "murder" of Black Panther F r e d Hamptnn (killed two weeks earlier in a police raid on Panther hcadqrrartrrs in Chicago). "starvation of millions of children" and "pollution carrsed by off- shore oil drilling. . L 1 In a caurtrobm strangely quiet, j u r o r s and sDrctators strained to hear Miss Morse's soft sooken cxplanations. Dcfcnsc attorneys ncvcr objected to Schultz's qucstbns. Thcy obviously wrlcomed the - itijection of "politiks" into the trial, a tactic which follows clnscly dcfcndants' claims that thcy arc political prisoners, not criminals. - "Our defcnse is, first of al1,to roctts on tlrc intcn- . (ions of not only the dcfcndants, but cvrryonc who canic to Chicago. ialism, racism, 'youth culture, and the Democratic Party. The area we'll canc5ntratc an is our politics: what's this. crisis about, what's the showdown about, in this decade. Wc wal bring i h cxpctt witncssca on imwu- . -- . . - . .. . . I . . a I