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Tiny toddler tips tricycle
A young child apparently lost his balance and toppled his tricycle today. The extent of his injuries is not known. His name is being withheld pending notification of other neighborhood children.
Daley hails verdict in Chicago '7' trial
CHICAGO (UPI)—Mayor Richard J. Daley said Wednesday the verdict returned by the jury in the "Chicago Seven" riot conspiracy trial proved "some people did come to our city to create a riot."
"The defendants have had their day in court and received a fair trial and all of us should respect this verdict," Daley told a news conference.
The jury found all of the defendants innocent of conspiracy to incite riots during the 1968 Democratic convention but found five of them guilty of individual acts with intent to incite riot.
"I hope that the jury verdict will put an end to appeals to violence," Daley said. "Hopefully this verdict will dispel any mistrust and suspicion which may still exist and permit us to meet the needs of a changing society within the framework of our constitution."
Daley said the jury should be "commended for its personal sacrifice and sincere examination of 20,000 pages of testimony and for earnestly weighing the testimony of almost 20 witnesses."
Asked about the validity of the law under which the defendants were tried, Daley only said, "I have been speaking out against people moving from one part of the country to another to create riots."
Rep. Roman Pucinski, D-III., Wednesday commended judge and jury in the trial. He said the convictions marked a "historic day in the annals of freedom."
The Chicago Democrat also hailed the conduct of Judge Julius J. Hoffman in the face of what the lawmaker termed an obvious effort by the defendants to wreck court procedure and make the trial impossible.
"This jury today has placed America for the first time on the road back to sanity in dissent," Pucinski told the House. "These citizens deserve the gratitude of the whole country. It was a brave jury."
Rep. William C. Cramer, author of the law the five defendants were convicted of violating, called the decision a "body blow to the forces of anarchy in this country."
"With today's convictions, the rioters, the looters, those who preach anarchy and would tear down this country are on notice" if they don't obey the law they go to iail.
Rep. Louis Wyman, R-N.H., a former attorney general of New
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Hampshire, meantime called on the Bar Association to deal with the type of disgraceful conduct he said was practiced by defense attorneys during the trial.
"No attorney is entitled to conduct himself as William M. Kunstler and others did in this case," Wyman said. Pucinski said he understood the New York Bar Association was considering disbarment proceedings.
Clark, who was attorney general at the time the convention disruptions occurred, had been called as a defense witness in the trial, but Hoffman ruled his prospective testimony inadmissable.
Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, asked by reporters for comment on the verdict, said "I think it's a good sign. The jury exercised discriminating judgment. The jury had its responsibilities, and God bless them, they had a hard job."
Pucinski said the seven defendants came into court with the same intent as they came to Chicago last summer—"to wreck it."
"This jury deserves the eternal gratitude of all Americans."
"But the judge and jury have demonstrated that our institutions are sufficiently strong to protect our citizens," he said.
Pucinski said he also was pleased that in its convictions the jury had set the stage for high court review of the new law making it a federal crime to cross state lines for the purpose of inciting riot. He expressed confidence this law would be upheld.
MANILA (UPI) — Groups of howling Filipinos broke from an antigovernment rally Wednesday night and marched on the U.S. Embassy, smashing its gates and pelting it with stones, torches and Molotov cocktails for 45 minutes before police arrived to disperse them.
Almost all the windows and glass doors in the office building in the embassy compound were shattered, and several fires flared briefly in the courtyard. The demonstrators broke down steel gates to gain access to the courtyard, from where they launched their barrage of missles against the building.
Riot police arrived 45 minutes later, dispersing the rioters who smashed hotel, restaurant and shop windows as they fled the
Pearson endorses Nixon legislation
US Embassy bombarded
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WASHINGTON (UPI) — Sen. James B. Pearson, R-Kan., said Wednesday he Joined Sen. Hugh Scott, R-Pa., in sponsorship of President Nixon's "environment package" of legislation because it is clearly "problem-solving legislation."
The seven bills in the legislative group are a challenge "to begin dealing seriously with a major national problem that can in fact be solved," Pearson said.
neighborhood. Several automobiles were burned.
The bills include authority to deal with old car bodies,car exhaust emissions,water pollution, land conservation and waste treatment, among others, Pearson said.
Police reported later that 78 persons had been arrested, and at least 20 others had been injured.
There were no embassy personnel among the injured, but officials said damage to the building was the worst inflicted on U.S. property here since the Philippines attained independence in 1946.
The Embassy office building houses the consular section, the U.S. property here since the Veterans Administration and several other federal agencies.
Police estimated that nearly 1,000 demonstrators marched on the embassy from a rally in downtown Manila, where nearly 30,000 students, farmers and laborers gathered to denounce President Ferdinand E. Marcos and the U.S.
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