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...liberals, like Adlai Stevenson III in Illinois, had to swing sharply to the right in order not to risk alienating blue collar whites. Instead of educating the electorate about the tragedy of our intervention in Southeast Asia, Stevenson spent much of his time explaining why he named Thomas Foran, the prosecutor of the Chicago Seven, his campaign chairman...
...Yippie wing of the defendants and the Tom Hayden revolutionary wing, and of course the prosecution and the defense. And there were the nuances of those conflicts, which occupy the major portions of the Lukas' book: for example, Judge Hoffman's fear of his own Jewishness and prosecutor Foran's curious pronouncement that, with the exception of Bobby Seale, the defendants were all "damn fags...
...Chicago Seven also charged eight policemen with violating demonstrators' rights during the 1968 Democratic national convention. Federal juries have acquitted six, reached no verdict on the seventh, leaving only Patrolman Ramon Andersen, 35, charged with beating a reporter and a college instructor. Last week U.S. Attorney Thomas Foran, unable to find any witnesses to the clubbings but the victims themselves, sought -and received-Justice Department permission to drop the charges...
...rulings. He jailed two lawyers for failing to appear in court, even though they had only helped to prepare the defense. He barred such potentially important defense witnesses as former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and Civil Rights Leader Ralph Abernathy. Before the jury, he praised Chief Prosecutor Thomas Aquinas Foran and put down Defense Attorney Weinglass by consistently mispronouncing his name...
...rebels, though decrying their treatment, exulted in their martyrdom. Rennie Davis offered a challenge to Prosecuting Attorney Thomas Foran. Said Davis: "When I get out I'm going to move right next door to Mr. Foran and I'm going to turn his kids into Viet Cong." Abbie Hoffman's wife Anita proclaimed: "If there wasn't a conspiracy before, there, sure as hell is one now." As a practical matter, however, the radical movement has lost-at least for the time being-some of its shrewdest and most daring leaders. Thus the violent antiwar left...