February 20 , 1970 Dall11s Town ·end For the first time in nearly five mo,aths - a semblance of legal decorum today in tL ne trial of the 'Chicago Sc v en" - now down to five. Judge Jultu s Hoffman barring spectators - noting that o,ae of the defe,ada,atl relatives had threatened to "dance on Iris grave." At tl,e same time, beefing ur, security forces - boll: i,a•ide au or,tside tlae courtroom. Then and Oftly t11en - tlae Judge ~•rmlttlng eacla of tlae five co,avicted me,a - a final statement before sentencing. David Delli,ager com/uarl,agJudge Hoffman - to a latter-day King George Tllird. "You are tryi,ag to forestall a c e c o,. ti A ,,. er i ca,. re vol u ti o,. - w II i c II }' o u to ill ,. o t • •cc e e d i• dof,ag" - said 1,e. Re•,ale Davis sayi,ag : "Wl,e11 I get o•t of t,rls o,a - I'm gol,ag to . -,r,ve n ex I door to Mr. Fora,a!' •ea,ai,ag Thomas Fora,a - cltief prosecutor in tlte case. Davi• addi,ag: "I'm going to organiie Iris llids into revolulionaires - I ',,. g , 1 in g t O tu r,. t 1, e s on s a,. d d au g later• of I It e C " ••tablishmeRI into Viel o,ag. And so it went - on and on. Each of the Jive men , xt,'ressing the ultimate in defiance - each in his own way. Till finally - it was Judge Hoffman's tu'rn. With a mi,aimum of 'rlaeto'ric - tlae Judge t,'ronouncing sentence at fiue years at,eice - f>lus - a fine of Fiue Thousand Dolla'rs. Tia e new t erns - to 'run concu'r're,atly with te'rms al'ready meted out /or co,atemt,t. The Judge also denied bail - on grounds tlaal '"• defendants "are clea'rly daNge'rous t,e'rsons." Late today, a section of the America Bar Association decided to investigate the Chicag, Trial and the contempt judgements imposed by Hoffman •.. on all seven defendants and two lawyer · s. Jerome Shestack, °"irman of the individual rights and responsibilities section will appoint a committee for tlii's purpose. Shestack says tllat - in his own opinion - Judge Hoffman behaved in an in-Ju-dicious manner. SENATE ------- Defense Secretary Melvin Laird - tlle lead-off witness today before a joint session of tl,e Senate Arned d .11 I Services an t,t,rot,nations Committees. Heading up the Pentagon's t,resentation - of its annual defense review. Secretary warni•g tleat Russia is pushing its weapons developme,at program - full speed allead. A rate - said 1,e - tr.at could well relegate tlle U.S. to secorad-cl ass military stat•• - perl,aps as early as Ille mid-Sevexties. Laird adding : "If tlle current Soviet build-up c<>xtinues - we wi-ll ,seed additio,aal costly steps to preserve a,a effective detwrre,,t." For JIOIO thougll, he said lie irate,ads to cut U.S. defense s/n1,adi,ag - by a f•ll seve,a t,er cext this year. WHEELER FOLLOW SENATE ------------------------ Next up - General Earle Wheeler - chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ; addressing himself - to es~entially the same subject. General Wheel~r asserting tltat U.S. defense cuts - are no, ., "at the borderline of accef>table '"H itary risk in tlte f>res en t coraditions. " Be also said tllat ma,ay of tltese cuts - "have not been f>remised uf>on PNililary rationales." And as for Viet,aam - he sa,d ,,,e Viehtamf~ation f>rogram is t,roceedi,ag well - but still "uraeven." (SUGGESTED LEAD-IN TO THOMAS TA PE SLUGGED "LIDDELL HART") Lowell Thomas is winding ur, a brief visit to the Mideast today - heading next for New Delhi - and t It en on to Net> a . l near the "roof of the u r d r l d • " Right now - another sr,ecial report he left us. Discussing again the legend of Lawrence of Arabia - a,sd also anotller of his biographers. Lowell .•• LIDDELL HART --------------- ,,(..>. ~ ~ •• J , . . . ~-ti,,,/ If you arc among the millions who have been fascinated by /he story of Lawrence of Arabia, aJ1d if you hare been puzzled by many attempts made in recent years to belittle him, including another book published recently, you might check your local library for a cop , y of a biograp , hy of Lawrence written by Sir Basil Liddell Hart , Cap ta in Ha rt as u, e us e d I o Ir n ow h i m , died a few days ago in London at age seventy fo11r. The New York Times in noting this referred to him as "one <f the world's leading military writers and thiNkers whose basic ideas o,s tan . k warfare were adopted by the German army in its ,, NiJ1eteen Forty blitzkrieg through France. The brilliant and now legendary German General Rommel, The Desert Fox, 0J1ce said the British wo1'ld have avoided most of their defeats iN World War Two - t 4 ~ ~ ~ ' ' 4 paid more at'tentioPI tAtheir ow11 Liddell Harl, if they had a called LIDDELL HART . . 2 ------------- Bui, I ha v e failed to read any obituary of Liddell Hart mentioning his fine biography of Lawrence of Arabia. If you . want the truth about the Lawre,ace story you will find it there, or in a new edition of my own book WITH LAWRENCE IN ARABIA i,a which I reply to what lo '"e are t . he curious, indeed weird, and senseless attacks made on Lawrence. (SUGGESTED FOLLOW TO THOMAS TAPE SLUGGED "LIDDELL HART") Thank you, Lowell. Back to the ,aews •.. ~crz ,: r. C. t. t C t· ~ : 0 ti C ' . IIVNICH ------ A related item - from West Germany; where poHce in Bonn and Munich today ordered tlte "ltigltest level of security" - for a coming weekend visit from Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban. Tllis ht response to tlaree anti-Israeli inctde,ats ,,. Muni.ell - i,a tlae past week. JIOSCOW ------- Arab commando leader Yasser A'raf,,ts - wound ut, a ten-day visit to Moscow. Taking lais leave - armed wltla a t,le , lge of full coot,e'ration f'rom 11,e Soviet Union. The Al Fatal, chieftain heading back to 4mfflan - - "'lle're 1,e will lead a gue'rilla delegation in st'ralegy lallls tomo'r'rOW with 11,e Jo'rdanian gove'rnment. ~ . . . ,-- ... - - -~-~~--=-----==---~--::::-: :::= :;:;.:;; ;;;;;;; _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ WARSAW ----------- - wa,-saw, Poland - another meethtg between U. s. Red Chinese dit,lomats. The second in a new se1"ies of tallls that began late last month - also, the Ji,-st-etJer In Ille U.S. Embassy. The t,arle:, lasth,g about a,a laou.-: s a m e as las t ti m e • A/ t e ,. w la i c la - c o na mu,. if u e , s tr es s i,. 6 t II e s e c,. e t n (I tu ,. e o I t la e m e e t hag • V.'BTNAM ....... ------ In Vietnam - a sudden surge of ground fighting - on two widely-separated fronts. The fit-st - near Da Na11g in the North. The second - in the Mekong Delta. In both engagements - South Vietna,neseforces bearing Ille brunt of the action; apparently - quite well. Battlefield reports later setting combined e . nemy losses at more tlla,a a l11u1dred and twenty ,n . en , - as compared • th gove,·nme . nt losses said to be "llgllt." No . w a word from Wa : rre,a Moran •.• From San Francisco - an announcement toda y that : Eric Hoffer is , in a way, "drot,t,ing out.,, Tlr.e famed longshoremen-turned-t,hilost,her - aged seventy _ saying he p I ans to re tire forth with from t,ubl ic life. Ass er ting : "No more columns - no more television - no more lectures - no more teaching; I don't need it - and I don't ,. want it." Not that he plans to stop writing - no, indeed. However , Eric Hoffer saying : "I'm going to crawl back into my hole - back where I started." And tlae reaso,a s a id 'It e : '' I don ' t wan t t o die - bark in g " a t an A m er i ca 'th at he claims has become a .M.ation of cowards." That - from a man who may be one of tlae country's greatest living Plailosot,lters.