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...group, which has drawn complaints from as far west as Texas, arrived two weeks ago at Williams College, Jon Tigar, a Williams student, said yesterday. Members of the group offered students a free two-year subscription to Tennis magazine if they purchased subscriptions to any other magazine, he added...
...People got the impression they were casing the place," Tigar said, adding that college security officers had asked the group to leave. Tigar said many students at Williams had bought subcriptions from the agency...
...Incident. The trial had promised to be far more orderly when it began last month. The defendants, to be sure, were self-styled revolutionaries, clenching their fists defiantly and spouting obscenities at law enforcement officials to prove their credentials. Still, many observers felt that able defense attorneys like Michael Tigar (TIME, Dec. 14) and a cautious judge like Boldt could control any courtroom antics...
...when six of the defendants* refused to enter the courtroom because their partisans had been denied entry to the courthouse lobby, Tigar and the other defense lawyers stood by helplessly. Judge Boldt demanded that the defendants enter. When they balked, he declared a mistrial and cited them for "one of the most inexcusable and outrageous incidents of contempt of court that I have ever read about or learned...
Immediate Action. Equally upset, Tigar called the judge's ruling "a patently transparent attempt to deny defendants the rights vindicating their innocence." Some legal observers questioned the necessity of a mistrial. Boldt could have continued the trial with the defendants in custody or awaiting the start of their contempt sentences. It was never clear that the jury had been prejudiced by the defendants' absence from the courtroom. Some jurors even expressed disappointment that they had not been able to see the trial through...