DOC RELATES TO PROJECT MERRIMAC (MERRIMACK) - SITUATION INFORMATION REPORT

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A new student group called Transcendental Students (TS) has
grown to be the most popular. attraction on the New York University
campus. Basically hedonistic, the transcendentalists have even fast
talked the University administration, floundering between Scylla and
Charybdis .(betWeen SDS and. TS), into a $5, 000 contribution to keep
them and their woodstock aura oriented organization solvent. Although
the party-throwing TSers claim to be political in nature, offering an
extracurricular alternative to both. the University's knowledge factory
and the SDS's nihilism, political activism seems secondary to#TS.
As a measure of campus popularity, TS will draw more than
500 to a music, pot, and love "freak-out" while the purely political
SDS has virtually disappeared from the scene with a current member-
ship of about twenty-five. The TSers want change like everyone else
but the change sought is life style in character. "We want a society
where you can smoke grass and drop acid and have a place like "Harouts"
(a renovated former Greek restaurant near the school's main building
that was the reason for the New York University $5, 000 allocation and
is presently the principal TS watering hole). We want a revolution
that will see Dick Nixon out-of the White House anclopeople living there
who will paint it a different color and invite people to camp on the
lawn - we want life."
TS at New York University appears a politically inoculated bas-
tardization of the original Transcendentalism of German philosophers
Kant and Hegel. The reality in and of nature as Sense experiences
must be discovered by processes Of through (spiritual intuition) hence,
an orange only-becomes an orange (a taste, a shape,. a color, a feel,.
an odor, etc.) when the individual interprets the sense meaning to
the individual. Since the 19th century European transcend(-ntalists
also subscribed to a hedonistic concept (modern translation: If it
feels good; ado it!), the New York University group, to distinguish
themselves both from the vrsonality cult of new tefl radicalism and
the nihilistic and pessimistic exiMntialism of Jean Paul Sartrot (the
beat generation of the pot WWII period) has adopted a loose .but classi-
cal philosophical Concept td hang their seeming immorality on.
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Understanding of the student mood is critically important now.
Knowledgeable observers believe, -and details of recent radical history
support the belief, that SDS is crumbling. The gap is widening between
"Weatherman". and RYM2" (see SIR dated 3 July 1969, pg. 3, Paragraph
2 and 3). Some college chapters, Arkansas, for example, are disavow-
ing. all national level leadershrp. There will be more breaks and proba-
bly at an accelerated pace. The SDS-NO reins are in the hands of Mark
Rudd, an arch-radical bungler previoutly a joke among sophisticated
new left theorists and articulate activists such as Rennie Davis, Carl
Davidson and Tom Hayden. Rudd does not have the intellectual depth
or imagination to pull SDS back together but instead, like a Napoleonic
Sisyphus, may well be the last (or one of the last) leader of a mori-
bund organized force. A demonstration flop (which is likely) at Chica-
go in October on behalf of the Conspiracy 8 will probably heraLd the
beginning of the end.
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The big question searching for an answer is where does the
radically involved student go from here? The PLP, the CPUSA, and
the SWP all have an answer but the imagination stirring, dirty fun
and games encouraging, Bohemianism of New York University's Trans-
cendental Students has an undeniable elder-defying, taboo allure that
simply can't help but grow (probably rapidly) across the nation. The
bellwether campuses to watch are most likely Columbia and Harvard.
Frank R. Haig, S. J., President of Whee1i4 College in West
Virginia yvas at.Ann Arbor in June of this year and witnessed the block
party ribts. President Haig wrote his observations for the September
20 issue of America magazine. He speaks the thoughts of many obser-
vers of the demonstration torn college scene today when he says that
the present generation is not more intelligent than the students of ten
years ago. Ask a.ny English teacher'. The constant adulation heaped
upon youth in the -past few years is coming back to haunt the elders
and plague the children.
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Reverend Haig writes: 'Perhaps it's time to return to simple
honesty. \Tung people may be wonderful, but they are young and they
need the processes and disciplines of education and experience to give -
them knowledge and wisclow to live their lives in rich human fashion.
They have to learn that Nyhile you ne-ed never tell a bear to be asbear,
you must -tell a man to be a man: We should stop fooling them. They
have believed our adulation. Now they .trust immetliate-felt
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reactions. They relish their status as moral judges of their elders
and many of them are being destroyed by the experience."
Some time ago it was announced that a Vcnceremos Brigade of
young Americans would go to Cuba in November and January to aid in
the Cuban sugar harvest. Organizers have announced that the Brigade
will be doubled in size from 300 to 600 - 200-blacks, 200 latins, and
200 whites. The national executive committee of the Brigade plans
to make a recruitment drive during the first weeks of the campus fall:
semester.
- At a teach-in at the University of Michigan on 20 September,
sponsored by the NMC% University President Robben Fleming spoke
against the Vietnam .War, offered use of University facilities ro anti-
war . protesters, and promised to express his concern about the -
war to other presidents of universities. Rennie Davis, a principal
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speaker, said that cooperation of colleges with the ,var must be
opposed. Barry Cohen, co-chairman of the Ann Arbor Moratorium
Committee, claimed that 80 percent of the faculty and students at the
University will join in the October 15 strike and .that 400 other colleges
will participate - purpose of the strike is to produce 500,000 demonstra-
tors at Washington, D. C., on November 15.
The principal speakers at a rally later in the day were David
Dellinger and Sidney Peck, �both NMC officials. Doillinger said Ho
Chi Minh was loved by more Americans than either Presidents Johnson
or Nixon and that the November 15 demonstration at Washington will
drive Nixon out of office. Peck predicted that one and a half million
people will participate.
On 19 September Dr. Sidney Pelk, national director of the
planned November 15 anti-war march in Washingtorl, said that teams
visiting.sizty: cities to rally support for the march report a good re-
loose. In all sixty cities preparations committees are being asked
to leaflet workers in the shops and the unions with an appeal to join
the great allti-war struggle.
The Vietnam Moiatorium Committee appears tb have liaison
with the anti-war memberi of Congress. Sen. George 'McGovern of
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South Dakota, Vietnam critic, has offered to. speak to an area-wide
rally in Boston. The Moratorium claims the endorsement Of the
'ADA and the New Democratic Coalition. Some 500 colleges (or at
least student leaders at them) have indicated they will suspend normal
activities on the 15th. The-Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Color�
ado, is one of the smaller colleges participating. Students there are
planning to read the list of war dead (a popular gimmick among the
anti-war groups) beginning at midnight October 14-15, attend a mass
for the Colorado dead in the town square-at noon and march in a torch-
light parade at night in which high school. students will reportedly
carry signs saying "Please don't send me to war."
The trial of H. Rap' Brown on charges of inciting to riot and
arson, which was scheduled to have started at Bel Air, Maryland,
on 6 October, has been postponed. A request for delay by William H.
Kunstldr, .Brown's attorney, was granted. Kunstler said he would
be in Chicago that week in order to represent the Chicago Eight.
Washington, D. C. - Reportedly, a former member of the Black
Panther Party has indicated he has plans to organize Negro women who
are employed by the Government in Washington, D. C., and to train
them in the use of firearms. Upon his orders, they would participate
in a five-day boycott of Government offices which would be a signal
for a start of an armed revolution in the Washington area. Allegedly,
these plans at thc present time are in the talking seage and this in-
dividual has five followers, none of whom are Government employees.
No date�for the boycott has been mentioned.
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THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO EIGHT (continued).
The trial of the eight leaders of the New Left radical groups
held responsible for the Chicago riots at the Democratic National
Convention in Chicago in August 1968, (Rennie Davis, Dave Dellinger,
John Froines, Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Bobby Seale and
Lee Weiner), got under way as scheduled on 24 September 1969, at
the Federal Building in Chicago. Despitea series of attempts on the
part of The Conspiracy, as the group calls itself, and its attorneys
to delay the trial, its opening was assured when on 23 September
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall refused to grant a delay
which the defendants sought on the grounds that one of their attor-.
neys is ill. Each defendant faces a possible ten year jail sentence
and a $20,000 fine, if found guilty of conspiring to incite the riots.
Judging from its initial session, the trial will be a long drawn -
out process. Attorneys for the defense are saying that they expect
it to last two months or more, and some estimate three to seven months.
The Conspiracy and the groups its members represent plan that before
its completion anti-war demonstrations will have swept from Chicago
to campuses and cities throughout the country, back to Chicago and
finally to Washington, D.C., where a forty-eight hour "march against
death" and a massive rally are scheduled for mid-November.
During the first day of the trial, according to a Washington Post
account,: "The Judge bawled out the defense attorneys. Who have
claimed that their clients can't get a fair trial in Chicago and
have also claimed judicial prejudice and sought to Ave Judge Julius
J. Hoffman disqualified.) The prosecution accused the defense attorneys
of contempt in their publicity campaign. Seven of the eight defend-
ants angered the judge by momentarily refusing to stand when he entered
the court room". As the trial began, Judge Hoffman issued arrest war-
rants for four defense attorneys who failed to show up, after advising
the prosecuting attorney by telegram that they had withdrawn from the
case. He ruled that they must appear in the court and withdraw offici-
ally. At day's end, little progress had been made in the case and
at adjournment the selection of jurors had just begun.
The trial is seen as having dual significance. It is the first
prosecution under the 1968 Civil Rights Act's anti-riot provisions,
which prohibit the crossing of state lines to provoke disorders and
is, therefore, a test of the limits to radical dissent iwthia country;
and is a' major event for th* radical-movement which will serve ag a
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focus for further demonstrations for political, social, and cultural .
changes.. It is expected to launch a major offensive against the war
in Vietnam.
Landmark rulings are expected to result from the trial on two
counts: 1. The validity of the statute prohibiting the crossing of
state lines to incite .a riot. 2. The limitation on the right of the
Government to maintain electronic surveillance without a specific
court order. The Government claims such "right in cases where it is
necessary to protect the country against internal subversion. '
. The planned fall demonstrations, which the CHICAGO EIGHT claim
will be peaceful may well erupt into a accord round of Chicago riots
even larger than the first. The Students for a Democratic Society
(3DS) has already 'rejected non-violent protest for the "fall peace
offensive" and is planning an action in Chicago from 8 to 11 October,
called "Days of Race". However, protest demonstrations which were
organized by the Black Panthers to take place outside the Court House.
while the eight defendants were making their initial appearance in
'court, which its sponsors claimed would involve 5,000 to 10,000 people,
chiefly students from nearby colleges, drew a crowd of only about 500.
On the other hand, a larger crowd variously estimated as at two to
three thousand gathered later for a rally in Grant Park for further
protest, and during the various demonstrations two policemen, two
assistant city corporation counsels, and an unknown number of demon-
strators were reportedly injured. Most clashtis came after Bennie Davis
*and Abbie Hoffman addressed their followers at the rally in Grant Park;
and during one confrontation, near the Federal Building, several police-
men were beaten when, two patrolmen were jumped by thb mob and pushed .
to the ground and kicked, and a police captain who charged in to defend
them:was.itruck in the mouth with a lead pipe. When additional police
were summoned, the mob of about 700 white and black youths fled to a
near' by construction site and a rock throwing melee broke out. The
"flower children", so evident during the Convention riots: were notably
absent.
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. Chicago is understandably apprehensive. There are signs that a
tough line will be taken by the courts and City Hall).- and security
measures will inevitably be significant.
A sketch of CHICAGO EIGHT member Tom Hayden is submitted below.
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Tom Hayden, whose activities are currently centered in the Eerkeley,
California area, was one of the principal organizers of the demonstra-
tions at the Democratic Nationgl Convention at Chicago in August 1963
where he and Rennie Davis were the spokesmen for the National Mobili-
zation.Committee to End the War in.Vietnam.(NMC). This organization,
which coordinated the anti-war activities of over one hundred pence
and 'student groups there to.clemonstrate, was under the leadership of
Dave Dellinger who like Hayden and Davis is also one of the CHICAGO
.t EIGHT. Hayden, a co-director of NMC (with Dellinger), was a co-founder
(with Davis) of the Students for a Democratic society (DS-}-of which
he is-also a former national president. He has been a key, figure in
college campus strikes and appears to have become a spckesman for -
the entire New Left, in whose "Intellectual Center", the SDS-initi-
ated Radical Education Project, he has been active.
.The twenty-nine year old Hayden was born on 11 December 1939 in
Detroit,..Fachigan; and he attended the University of Michigan, where
during his senior year he was the editor of its student-operated news-
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paper The Michigan Daily.. He received an AR degree in June 1961;
subsequently University's Graduate School from September
1962 until May 1964; and while a student at the University was active
in the civil rights movement in Georgia and Mississippi. In 1962
he helped found- SD and was the principal author of the Fort Huron
Statement, which formed theideological�framework of SDS. The docu-
ment attacked "paranoic anti-Communism" and American support of "totali-
tarian governments") and advocated "participatory domocracy".
A 13 November 1967 New York Times article, titled "The Improbable
Radical�Thomas Emmett Hayden , noted that he was said to halm been a
"moderate radical" as of 1962, with friends in the Student Non-Violent
Cooviinating Committee (SNCC) and with a wife, or former wife, named
"Casey' win�as an active SNCC worker. He was described as 1,poking,-*
on first meeting, like a "gawky, diffident college boy. Nis face still
marked with acne. 'Ks manner, somewhat vacant, somewhat absent, is
polite." He was also said to be very practical and to "talk about
votes", rather than "love and community". His politics were said over
the years VO have grown increasingly more revolutionary :and bitter,
and be Gas said to have "lost his faith in cooperation with liberals
and moderate socialists".
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This November 1967 rt*icle was occasioned by the fact that Hayden
wa3 then on one of his trips to North Vietnam where on 11 November 1967
the National Liberntion FrOnt (NLF) in Phnom Penh ceremoniously released
three American prisoners to his custody, as "a representative of an.
American committee of war protestors". The alleged reason for the
release, which according to Haden he believed to be the true reason,
was "to show sympathy for the people, black and white, who don't agree
with Johnson and to show that the NLF is not difficult...to deal with--
it can be flexible, as long as you recognize its power". On his return
to.tlie United States, Hayden announced that morale in North Vietnam
was high; that "if anyone.is taking the offensive, it is the Viet Cong-;
that neither the NLF not...Winoi would change its attitude toward negotia-
tions; and that "The problem is that they are beginning to think about
Johnson the way the American people think about him. They don't be-
lievellim. They don't trust him or Rusk personally...".
While Hayden was on this trip to North Vietnam, a voice attributed
to him by a Hanoi announcer spoke at great length to the American ser-
vicemen in Vietnam iteting that the United States in its battles there
is receiving no assistance from its friends and allies because they
are not in agreement with what the United States is doing. The voice
also stated thqt American citizens have no Interest in fighting in
Vietnam; that, it's not our business to be there, cc. It told of the
horrors resuAing from United States bombings in North Vietnam, and
of the tremendous support its people are giving their government.
It accused President Johnson and the United States Government of fur-
nishing false reports to the American people -- a typical statement
being "I am not gonna give my life to Lyndon Johnson or his war in
Vietnam and I don't see apy point in your doing it ;ither" This long
harrangue attributed to Hayden was apparently recorded and was, delivered
on 4 November 1967.
Hayden had previously made an unauthorized "fact-finding" trip
to North Vietnam via Prague, Moscow, and Peking, in late December 1965/
early January 1966, with CPUSA Committee Member Herbert Apthekpr apir
Yale Assistant Professor Stnughton Lynd; and following the trip had
addressed several' large rallies and teach-ins, condemning U.S. action
in Vietnam.. In the 'fall of 1966, he had been a worker 1w the Brooklyn/
New York City headquarters of Aptheker, leading theoretician of the
crusA, who was a candidate for Congress on an independent ticket; and
In September ).967 had been one of the forty-one Amerienna who took
part in th, week-long conference with North Vietnamese nnd Viet Con.
represonta.tives in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, an also did Dave Dellin-
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Hayden has travelled extensively in connection with his attacks
on U.S. policy at home and abroad and Newsday in its November 21,
1967, issue described him as an "international commuter" who "shuttled
between New York and Prague., Newark and Phnom Penh, with stops in South
America and occasional forays 1:c1 Hanoi".
In January 1968, Hayden was in Cuba for the Cultural Congress
of Havana, at which the United States was condemned for its "role of
world-wide imperialist aggressor" and support was pledged to the Viet-
namese people in their struggle against the United States. Returning
to New York City, via Mexico City, by air on 22 January 1968, his
baggage was mistakenly sent to New Orleans, where customs inspection
revealed considerable material reflecting the involvement of various
persons on the staff of Liberation magazine, an anti-war monthly publi-
cation, with American prisoners in detention camps in Vietnam and with
their relatives in the United States. Hayden, who waeini4olved in carry-
ing letters from American prisoners, was an Atsistant Editor of Libera-
tion, whose Edftor was, self-styled "non-Soviet type Communist" Dave'
Dellinger and another of whose Assistant Editors was Staughton Lynd.
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Hayden was involved in the Poor People's Campaign in Washington
and in April 1968 was athong the speakers at a rally in a Georgetown
park on "Why Did Washington Burn?". Other speakers included Dick
Gregory; leftist Negro comedian; Rev. James Bevel of the Southern �
Christian Leadership Conference; and Arthur Wpskow, and Julius Hobson;
Washington activists. These, according to the New York Times Magazine
of 9 June 1968, "scourged their white listeners for their guilt, for .
their racism and their violence". The Examiner, 19-21 April 1968, � -
reported that Hayden's comments included a statement in connection
with the death of Martin Luther King that "the FBI and CIA did it". '
- Hayden was arrested during the Columbia University riots of May
1968; and during that month quit his position as Astistant Editor of
Liberation magazine and vent to Chicago to work with the NMC. He was
cited in a May 1968 HCUA report on "Guerilla Warfare Advocates in the
United States", which noted that key leaders of the SDS "openly radical
and leftist", have given "open support" to guerrilla warfare in the
U.S. The report denfribed Hayden as a former SDS president who "echoed
the RAM philosophy when he said in an interview he granted the Commu-
nist weekly newspaper The National Guardian: 'Urban guerillas are
the only realistic alternatives at this time to electoral politics
or mass armed resistance.";* and it noted that "Dee Jacobsen, Assistant
National Secretary of SDS, who manages the organization's national
headquarters in Chicago, has said: 'We are getting ready for the
revolution."
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Human Eirept3 for n June 1968, reported that Hayden was among
Robert F. Kennedy's "honor vigil" at St. Patrick's Cathedral "here
he showed up wearing an army cap given him by Fael Castro; was
loaned a tie and a jacket by Kennedy aides; and'"atood vigil" at the
.coffin.
In July 1968, -Hayden was in France vhereihe conferred with North
Vietnamese leaders; and in August he was arrested in connection with
demon0Yation5 at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Since then he has had speaking' engagements throughout the country
during which he has been extremely intemperate in criticizing the white
-tommunity, expecialy the military, corporations, and the police whom
he has referred to as "an occupying army of brutes, sadists, and
thieves",�the while praising the most militant of the Black's..
0n-20 August 1968, the Chicago American published nn article
containing comments reportedly made by Hayden before the annual
congress of the Uational Student Association, including his announcement
that the militants would attempt to "run out of towitiCIA's staff at
Chicago's Federal Building .
During' HCUA Hearings ih.December 1968, remrding alleged Commu-
niskinTluences among demonstrators at the Democrativbflatienfil Conven-
tion, Hayden (whobblamed Mayor Daley nnd the Chicago police) told mem-
bers of the Comnittee that he is devoted to putting the Cormnittect out
of business, end tDat they represent "a racist philosophy that has no
meaning in the twentieth century". Haydeil also reportedly told the
Committee that he once "was a dupe of the CIA.. .1 va7 hired to go to
the Youth Festival at Helsinki, Finland, to carry '61d Glory' into
� the heartland of Communism". .He Inter learned, he said, that he was
_part of a CIA plan whereby students were unknewIngly used to spread
the message of democracy among international youth leaders.
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- en 8 January 1969, Hayden gave the first of a series of advertisej
lectures on 'The New American Revolution" before an audience.orer/er �
three hundred in the Student Union on the Berkeley .Campus of the Uni-
fversity of California, replacing fugitive Black ranther leader Eldridge
Cleaver who in the fall of 1968 had begun a series of lectuies in an
experimental sociology course for which the Board of Regents ruled
credit could. not be given. The Board of Educational Development had
withheld approval of-the Hayden course also.
. On 7.4-January 1969, Hayden went on trial in Chttngo Charged -with
obstruct.ine an officer, reatating_arrest, and disorderly eonduct,dur-
ing the Democratic liationnl Convention. He was charged also with
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additional counts of resisting arrest and aggrivated battery; and in
February 1969; vu found guilty of obstructing a policeman by deflat-
ing an unmarked police car in Lincoln Park on 25 August.1968.. He vas
placed on a year's probation.
On 13 Hay 1969, both Hayden and Dellinger spoke at a teach-in .
at the Univernity'of California at Los Angelen�at vhich time Hayden
stated that the real enemy of the people is the "ruling class".
. It is notable how often, Hayden's and rellinger's paths have
!crossed and how many projects they have mutually engaged in. Unlike.
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focus for further demonstrations for political, social, and cultural .
changes. It is expected to launch a major offensive against the war
in Vietnam...
Landmark rulings are expected to result from the trial on two
counts: 1. The validity of the statute prohibiting the crossing of
stnte lines to incite a riot. 2. The limitation on the right of the
Government to maintain electronic surveillance without a specific
court order. The Government claims such Tight in cases where it is
necessary to protect the country against internal subversion. �
The planned fall demonstrations, which the CHICAGO EIGHT claim
will be peacefulimy-well erupt into a second round of Chicago riots
even larger than the first. The Students for a Democratic Society
(SDS) has already rejected non-violent protest for the "fall peace
offensive" and is planning an action in Chicago from 8 to 11 October,
called "Days of Rage". However, protest demonstrations which were
organized by the Black Panthers to take place outside the Court House.
while the eight defendants were making their initial appearance in .
court, which its sponsors claimed would involve 5,000 to 10,000 people,
chiefly students from nearby colleges, drew a crowd of only about 500.
On the other hand, a larger crowd variously estimated as at two to
three thousand gathered later for a rally in Grant Park for further
Protest-, and during the various demonstrations two policemen, two
ansistant city corporation counsels, and an unknown number of demon-
strators were reportedly injured. Most clashes came after Rennie Davis
and Abbie Hoffman addressed their followers at the rally in Grant Park;
and during one confrontation, near the Federal Building, several police-
men were beaten When two patrolmen were jumped by thb mob and pushed
to the ground and kicked, and a police captain who charged in to defend.
them was, struck in the mouth with a lead pipe. When additional police
were summoned, the mob of about 700 white and black youths fled to a
near by construction site and a rock throwing melee broke out. The
"flower children", so evident during the Convention riots, were notably
absent:
Chicago is understandably apprehensive. There are signs that a
tough line will be taken by the courts and City Hallt.and security
measures will inevitably be significant.
A sketch of CHICAGO EIGHT member Tom Hayden is submitted below.
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CALENDAR OF TENTA1 IVELY SCIIEDt" LED AC I IV! I
Asterist-serl items are either reported Inr the iirst timy
contain additions or changes t(I rt�piirti�d at I
St. ptt.n.11)4� 1- 27
September 2 7
September 27
.September 27
September' 27 �
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*The rtik-ersi.ty of Michigan aas already -veil se�c!��0 ili:31;llit
or 11E111 1;11;o-over demotistratioe,s this ;all t(�rm. lb- I��
ii vtit. I\ 1 it 11 igan SI)S chap11-7 has In�t�t1 It. ad it,: tlii�
,Rt�tui Owl- may dt�int)iis I rah� ga in in 1 Iii� 27111 ,.�,1 �
rel.-1.'6(1.r is scheduled to visit the v.:H.111)ns. William A.,yr,.
na.tional officer of SDS. spoke al one of the rcuent rall
advi)rait�r1 Ow (rill)at thti t rs it president's hntite�
A serinus confrontation may be in the
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*CnIumhia Llniyersity - New York - I II" �%l'fit-1.-.ors Stildt�nl .,,\11;.-
1111Ct`, iS ST)S faCtiMI, is 14$ !I'd!! a pracrrtil qltntr -
Lion against the war in Vietnam at tlu� UN Plaza. The s,11,..clule
for tht. ra rs is as InlInwers: Ciather at the (7.dlimbia
University sundial at, 1201) hours. lake the sithwav tn 6"th Street
and Columhits Circle, and march l .n tiN Plaza whore thy
demonstration is to begin at apprce;imately 13(i() hours,
*New rirtinswick, New Jersey - The September th last issue nt
"Tarcum," the student newspaper, rstil!�ers 'University, New
Brunswick, New Jersey in commentintenn President Nixon's
appearance at the hundredth anniversary elebration of -)Ilegt�
football to be held at Rutgers Stadinm September 27, stated it
does not: consider the President's visit an honor and that
Rutgers University stitdents �vntilcl be remiss if thov
this .televised opportunity In show 11�. President thr depth and
breadth of thcir opposition to his Vietnam d icy. r �
*Pri)Vidt�nc�C, lZhmir Island - Ih0 hudi�-ls land Pcace and 1: ree
dom Nlovement, the Young Sn Hal isl All and SDS are
sponsoring a demmistrati,,u at. thr Fed,� it cif
ra I pri)los
Ih "rt�pres s ion of the UPP." ��� �
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OrleallS ialla - The r\b",v ch-1,1m:
ywith to,vvinent is rprrni.,�ring a firm,ith:l ration at Aho 1.� cdt� ra I
13ttilding to Aeniand that the United States withdraw its troops
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rom Vietnam. end in. � �ine tax on workers'
aII "pol it ic-al",prisone rs be treed. .
lilt .-11:*�����.. ! :1 � i.:1�
2:*lt'ashiliglim. 1). C. - The 11,-..meit's International Lea .:ne � r
Peace'and Freedom, a pat if ist !�rotto. has ain...ite. :!I
hold a "memorial svrvit I' for a nonteles.: soldier !
iii\-i,.f,lani�� it th,. 11ittli4t D. .
;Iv September. Arcording Ii . fir rent plans. /fell.
will march in front of the Vhit. 1 I�ofse read eulogiet. an.:
sing. - � .
()CILME.I: 1'401
. At the July -I--; Cit�Vviittiti iii.i.I int: ill* .1111i r at I - .1
liritatily hativti rt�rtri�stml,t1 'Ives .1.11/1 inch v!fitial s
many pol it ical and. kleological lines and . olors - a rt:11-.
men! and dispute. the conference did agree h. endorse or h.�lp � .rgan -
ize a series of anti-war ;actions beginning in /Vigils! awl (-tit tilin.ti;71',.:
With. the Noveiiihe r IC kVashington de mons t rat ion. To ins to- eftet
icipat ion iii SDS s1 Ins.) rt�t1 Chicago at. t ions in September and I.,
uarry th r. mtitli the W.A. Mobil iv.al ion Committee act ions in Washington
in November, it was agreed to estal)lish a "bicameral" rgani Aat lona'
structure.
co-chairmen and two pro jec.t. dire( tors were selected to
he responsible fur pa 1.1 Iet pa ion in the Chicago demonstration. The
two co-chairmen art, Sid Lens, a principal spHiesman for the Chica-
go Peace Council , and Prof*. Douglas Dowd, if 0. Nts lini".rs it y-
cuntercnce. Thc twci. project directors are Rennie Davis, of Ow
NIVIC and Sylvia Kushner of the staff ui the Chicago Peace Council.
The co-chairmen of the Washinuton proiect are: Prof. Sid
Peek , runner chairman of the Cleveland Area Peace Action Council
and a co-chairman of the National Mobilization, and Sit-wart \feat ham.
peace secretary of the American Friends Service Committee. Projet t
directors are Vav Kno.22. of the Philadelphia Fr lends start and Alic
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111nufw, chairman of Was SANE.
41�1.1i assure that the two actions will be developed in a related
way, Dave Dellinger of 1.11,.. New York parade C.oloolittee and Nat ional
1v1filiilizaLion was des rttlated...1.ia4son coo rd btalor he !lie Iwo pru-
ject.s.
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October I
October
. Following the planning of tile ant � at tRi�-t- ..
. bt�canit� t�yitleiit that the tleW i�v ill, tlit� � .f1;014 It et :1,. .1,!)
WaS a t$t) planning 1111.1Cb ZICI it I lit--I ill With r.tit lo �;1� io�f!
ttlecl for .October while the C.;overtiment ti�ial of the �'Cliitaco I-
is uti-flerway iii Chicago. The Now National Nto12;li-.-.atiott
1-d the War in Vietnam awl SDS have set up liais-ot tor or ....�.1.-�!
tli..ntonstrations. Coordinators for the ";:ev.� Mc 'I are:
�Dotiglos Sidney Lensr Siriney l'eck. St Ij.i ElltilMe�r
Meat hatit. and .Ron Young. For SDS are: A-,rt
awl Tt�rry IZobins. Ilarticipat ion liv Chit It street eatu:s f i�).1;
black. l'iterto Rican. and Mexicati-.Amerit an), and the Maki- Par.t!..ers
is being Sought .
Friends, and/or so-called sympathiers of the ronspirat t -
the "Cliicavo Eight" -; have organized a Committee to :Defend the Con-
spiracy with an office al � East Jackson 11vd.. Cbicago, Illin"ts��
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-A strong effort to secure funds and-to gel the Stipp' rl of thousands
for demonstrations in the streets of Chit' 1t0 is being made.
Wissl Virginia - Members of the hlarshall tYriversitv
Chapter of the SDS reportedly will attempt to takeover old Nlate,
the MU administration SDS members either have or
are attempting to obtain 30 handguns and one browning automatic
rillv.
*Washinut,in, D. C. - in the early morning hours, a "surprise"
demonstration wilt be held in support of IC.. national grant. boy-
cott. The nature and location of the "surprise-in," in.which
� several thousand area citizens are expected to participate, will
not be made public until the event occurs, or at least so said a
spokesman for the sponsoring United Farm Workers Organizing
Committee (UFWOC). Area college students, union members,
and tht�ir familit:s are tt; t ake part.'
The "surprise-in" actually will begin about 10 p.m. 'Tuesday.
30 Septonibcr with a b,v,, -hi r rally at the (*.hurt h of the Refor-
mation, 1.12 East Capitol St retd. Following, the rally, the demon-
strators will go to sleep in len nearby' churches. About ;
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they will eat bre:a fast, and then move in mass-hi the demonstra-
. tion s it.-. .T�ht� mw,iu slat " rapt' hoye. tit, lead by Cesar ha vi'
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and his UFWOC.� is in its fifth year.
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Dt�I'ylist� self ribed as .t ii,l 'Lot? .1.1:-. i���1
passed mil leaflets in New Vork -City Si�pi.�1111,..t. 2.11. ; '�,
The lea Ile 1 s advocate dial Ili.. 1).�!):11-i men, ,
action to dtTort Arah�sind,iiis %ell- are al 1 it..'. lv!!
I' imrp.ises and are ill- r(eror_ iti h.
affairs ..1 this t-otintv. The le:Weis said a Iwotti n
ilrisented h. the 1)eparlinent iii Jtist it einIV:I.:hint:1.o'. (.,
()11..11e1. I. l'In(), and that. "a prat eftil sit - -.v,�111,1 in�
conducted al that
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