Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Determined to perform as a lawyer, not a polemicist, Tigar calmly points out that nearly all the "overt acts" cited by the Government against the defendants consist of meetings and speeches. Dressed in a sober suit, white shirt and tie, Tigar began his opening statement to the jury by promising...
In Seattle last February, 2,000 chanting youths descended on the city's federal courthouse to protest what they regarded as the unfair conduct of U.S. District Judge Julius J. Hoffman in the Chicago Seven conspiracy trial. Prepared for the worst, Seattle police had hidden riot squads in the...
Local courts soon acquitted or dismissed the charges against nearly all the defendants. But the Justice Department used the incident as a reason to investigate a nascent radical group called the Seattle Liberation Front. Last spring FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover personally announced federal indictments against eight S.L.F. members. Though...
Simple Heart. Many lay observers have expected the mop-haired "Seattle Eight" to stage a political trial as messy as the one in Chicago. The defendants have, in fact, caused a few sporadic disruptions-clenched-fist salutes for the judge and brief scuffles outside the courtroom. But when the new...
Student Activist. Tigar grew up in Los Angeles, the son of a machinists' union official whose schooling ended in the eighth grade. One of Berkeley's first student activists in the early 1960s, he protested ROTC, favored the Cuban Revolution and demonstrated against the House Un-American Activities...