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NY 100-161445 a “CHICAGO "Rennie Davis, Dave Dellinger, Tom Hayden, John Froines, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Bobby 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 Con- a vention in Chicago, are the first persons to be charged i with conspiracy under Title 18 of the Civil Rights Act of 1965, This makes it a felony to ‘travel in interstate ro commerce...with the intent to incite, promote, encourage, i participate in and carry on @ riot...' "Faced by a potently political challenge, the ° eight defendants have determined on a political response as well as a legal defense. Through tneir 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 enfeeblement of the nation's political process. The eight refuse to be intimidated by the govern- ment's scare label of ‘conspiracy': they call themselves The __ - Conspiracy. And they confront one of the most oninous, aan challenges to political liberty since the passing of Sen. 4AcCarthy." lear oly 10 T RU RTUY R eG TEER ARMOR IN A yy eT Hee tw enka inh ! tae