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...than 200 protesters and triggered a student strike that paralyzed the campus for a month. He later took part in the "days of rage" demonstration in Chicago, in which several hundred radicals went on a four-day rampage. Then, rather than answer criminal charges stemming from both episodes, Mark Rudd went underground. For seven years his face peered stonily from WANTED posters across the country. A special squad of FBI agents-up to 35 at one point-shadowed his friends, tapped their phones and examined their mail in a fruitless hunt for Rudd and other fugitive firebrands...
Last week Mark Rudd surfaced in New York as mysteriously as he had disappeared. After surrendering to authorities, he was arraigned on four misdemeanor charges. Asked Judge Milton Williams: "Where have you been this past seven years?" Said Rudd's attorney, Gerald Lefcourt: "He hasn't made any statements to the district attorney's office. He doesn't intend to do so here." Next day he flew to Chicago, where he was arraigned on four misdemeanor charges, again refused to talk and was released on $4,000 bail pending trial...
...Although Rudd provided no explanation for his surrender, it clearly was time for him to come in from the cold. The war that he had opposed ended two years ago without setting off the revolution he had expected. His father, Jacob Rudd, a former Army officer who sells real estate in suburban Maplewood, N.J., and had not seen his son for seven years, speculated about Mark's motives: "He's 30 years old. You get too old to be a revolutionary...
Some veteran leftists of the 1960s regarded Rudd's reappearance as an isolated event. Others thought it signaled the collapse of the radical underground-estimates of its members range from 40 to 200-which has shielded more than a dozen fugitives for several years...
...Indeed, Rudd's band, known as the Weather Underground Organization,* has not claimed responsibility for any revolutionary activity since the bombing of a New York bank in 1975. The group, moreover, has been racked by bitter quarrels over whether the fugitives should try to change U.S. society from above ground. The dispute came sharply to a head last year, after five of the radicals-Kathy Boudin, Bernardine Dohrn, Cathy Wilkerson, Bill Ayers and Jeff Jones-outraged their colleagues by willingly appearing in Director Emile de Antonio's film Underground. Dohrn later had second thoughts. Said...