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...poor people and antiwar demonstrators. But last week the capital came under siege from legions whose troops represented the Establishment itself. Nearly 1,000 New York lawyers, some of them from the same firm in which the President and Attorney General John Mitchell had once been partners, appeared to plead the case for peace in Southeast Asia...
...meeting decided that the group as a whole will plead not guilty and that its defense will be based on a challenge of the applicability of the statute in question. An argument emphasizing the political nature of the demonstration will be used to support the challenge...
Attorney Michael Feldman of the Massachusetts Law Reform Committee, who represented the group in court,suggested yesterday morning that all of the defendants plead not guilty and ask for the May 29 continuance so that anyone who wishes to change his plea...
Such absurdity-in a city with one of the highest crime rates in the nation-finally moved Interior Secretary Walter Hickel to plead with Congress to junk the law. Meantime, a district court judge has put a strict construction on the old law, allowing that it applies only to Old Washington and Georgetown. Thus kites may be flown freely without fear of arrest in Rock Creek Park, Mains Point and other neutral zones...
...Accused of arrogance, he went on television to admit mistakes. Charged with being soft on crime, he boasted of his efforts to beef up the police department. To overcome the argument that his policies had encouraged anti-Semitism among black radicals, he went, yarmulke on head, to synagogues to plead his case...