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Ohio Independent February 19, 1970 Student Voice me BG news Volume 54 Number 66 Reruiir Divis Jerry Rubin AbMe Hoffman Tom Havden Divld Bellinger Jury declares men i nee Court convicts 5 in Chicago conspiracy trial CHICAGO (AP)-A federal Jury yesterday months to 24 years. their two lawyers will be avenged and we'll aid the government's case. ficials. convicted five men of inciting violence at the After the verdict, Judge Julius J. Hoffman dance on your grave." The judge said he would rule on the issue The courtroom was reopened and when all time of the 1968 Democratic National Con- of U.S. District Court turned down a request There was shouting and screaming in the at the conclusion of the trial. parties were present a marshal told the ' vention, and acquitted all seven defendants that the five convicted defendants be granted corridors but the courtroom doors were The judge also denied a motion to grant judge, "The jury has reached a verdict." on charges of conspiracy. bond, declaring, "I find the men in this trial locked and more than a dozen federal mar- bond for the seven defendants and their two are dangerous men to be at large." shals refused to let newsmen leave until the lawyers on the stiff contempt sentences Several minutes were taken up by The jury deliberated 40 hours before The jury of 10 women and two men were session was adjourned. issued by the judge over the weekend. government motions to clear friends and finding David P. Dellinger, Jerry C. Rubin, locked up Saturday to reach a verdict. They Each of the Jurors was polled at the Lawyers William M. Kunstler and relatives from the courtroom and the defense Abbott Hoffman, Thomas Hayden and chose one of the two men, Edward T. Kratzke, request of the defense. Miss Kay S. Richards, U'onard I. Weinglass were sentenced to four objected at length, saying it would be Renard C. Davis guilty of crossing state lines as their foreman and he handed the verdicts 23, the youngest of the Jurors, and Mrs. Jean years and 20 months, respectively, but the "another indecent effort" on the part of the to promote rioting. to the court clerk who read them aloud shortly Fritz both affirmed their verdicts in a judge stayed their commitment to May 4. court and government which "has left no Each man faces a maximum sentence of before 12:30 p.m. CST. quavering voice. Newsmen began filling the courtroom at 10 stone unturned in this effort to convict these five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. All newsmen were searched prior to en- Mrs. Fritz wore no makeup and shook a.m. yesterday for a scheduled hearing on a men." John R. Froines and Lee Weiner were tering the courtroom and all spectators, in- throughout the reading of the verdict. defense motion to declare a mistrial on the Kunstler also objected that the defense acquitted of the substantive charge, teaching cluding relatives of five defendants, were The judge set Feb. 20 to "deal ap- assumption that the jury was deadlocked. had not been informed that the jury had the use of an incendiary device, as well as removed from the courtroom despite defense propriately" with legs of conversations Minutes later the courtroom was cleared reached a verdict. He said there had been an being cleared of the conspiracy count. protests. wiretapped by the government. The defen- without explanation and the 23rd floor of the agreement that both sides would be given two All seven men, however, are being held in Hoffman's wife, Anita, shouted to the dants contended prior to the start of the trial Federal Building was cleared of all persons hours to gather necessary persons for the jail on comtempt sentences ranging from 24 judge, "The eight original defendants and on Sept. 24, 1989 that the wiretapping would except certified newsmen and federal of- rendering of the verdict. Birth control clinic due By Kathy Fraze can be taken. The proposal was presented to the According to the resolution, many Staff Reporter The proposed clinic would be AWS executive board last week by Joy men take advantage of and abuse women established in conjunction with the Teckenbrock, one of the coordinators of students because of this lack of The Association of Women Students Student Medical Center and the Coun- the Women's Liberation Movement at the knowledge. (AWS) Tuesday adopted a resolution seling Center. It would provide University. The resolution also states that this calling for the establishment of a clinic to professional guidance and information It was then taken to the legislative sexual ignorance often results in provide birth control information and and possibly various birth control board Tuesday where several psychological and mental anguish, devices to students. devices. representatives attempted to add an nervous breakdowns, unwanted amendment eliminating the section pregnancies, forced marriages, illegal AWS President Jan Schnack said In order to permit students to feel free asking for birth control devices. The abortions that could lead to yesterday the resolution is expected to to go to the clinic, the resolution demands amendment was defeated. hospitalization or death, and venereal receive the approval of Miss Fayetta that all conversations between members The resolution was introduced diseases. Paulsen, associate dean of students and of the counseling staff and patients be because of the general lack of knowledge Although the proposal neither con- AWS advisor. kept strictly confidential. among women students concerning dones nor criticizes premarital sexual Miss Schnack explained that all AWS It also states that information con- sexual relationships and birth -ontrol. relationships, it does seek to deal with .proposals must be approved by the cerning the clinic should be made This is especially true among incoming some of the problems facing women as a organization's advisor before any action available to all students. freshmen, it said. result of these relationships. It further states that every woman should have the right to control her own body and behavior. If the resolution is approved by Miss Senate rejects substitute plan Paulsen, it will then go to either the AWS Health Committee or a new committee established to draw up plans for the clinic. Miss Schnack said AWS will work with in integrating nation's schools representatives of the Women's Liberation Movement while planning the WASHINGTON (AP)-The Senate favored the Scott proposal over Stennis' Senate and this I will not permit," the Pennsylvanian declared of the Tuesday clinic. rejected 48-46 yesterday a substitute language. Although she hopes the clinic would be Scott told reporters he had gone to the challenge. school desegregation proposal of Sen. able to offer its service free, she said a Hugh Scott (R-Pa) which Southerners White House this morning to talk to When Scott offered the substitute Tuesday, he announced that it had the small fee may be required to pay for a said would leave virtually untouched Bryce N. Harlow, counselor to President staff gynecologist. Nixon, about the highly unusual support of Secretary of Health, 'widespread neighborhood segregation in "The idea of the clinic is to provide the North. challenge to him on the Senate floor Education and Welfare Robert H. Finch and the Nixon administration. students with information to help them. The substitute had been offered in an Tuesday. If they have to pay, the clinic may not get attempt to sidetrack a broader proposal The result was a letter from Harlow But his statement brought a virtually unprecedented counter claim from a big response," she said. of Sen. John Stennis (D-Mlss.) aimed at endorsing the substitute over the "If we get people working on it right both North and South. amendment of Sen. John Stennis. another Republican, Sen. John G. Tower -NI-I photo by CUn Eppl*aton of Texas. now, and if we have the support of the THE SUBURBAN BEAUTY SALON sign somehow seems a little out of The defeat u the substitute came "It was the first time my word had infirmary, we won't have any after the White House had sent word it been questioned in my 12 years in the Tower announced he had talked to place at the entrance to the local cemetery in Van Wert. Harlow and had been told the substitute problems," she said. did not have "the imprimatur of the White House." Bomb damages car In his letter yesterday, Harlow ad- vised Scott that "your amendment is administration language, preferred in Nixon sees Red threat on troubled campus existing circumstances" to the Stennis proposal. CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP)-The car of the school's 10,000-student Metropolitan Southerners charged bitterly Tuesday WASHINGTON (AP (^Surveying the "I believed then, and I am even more willingness to compromise." an off-duty Cleveland policeman was Campus. that the substitute was so drafted that it world situation, President Nixon convinced today, that there is a serious -Stated that it will take a willingness bombed yesterday at Cuyahoga Com- did nothing about de facto neighborhood reported yesterday the Soviet Union's threat to our retaliatory capability..." by Hanoi to conduct serious negotiations munity College shortly after dissident It was not immediately determined if segregation in Northern schools but missile buildup "raises serious questions the chief executive declared.