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New Left Reprise: Actress Jane Fonda and husband Tom Hayden, of the Chicago 7, off on month long campaign to get congressmen to take the “Indochina peace pledge,” i.e., to oppose all “nonhumanitarian aid to the puppet Saigon regime,” as the Daily World explains it. Marlon Brando turned up in St. Paul for the trial of Dennis Banks and Russell Means (Wounded Knee), announced that “those really on trial are the American people—the American conscience,” and departed. Defense counsel at Wounded Knee is former radical New York City Congressman Mark Lane, leading advocate of the “Kennedy assassination was a right wing plot” school. Lane says key witnesses are afraid to testify in the case because of the “atmosphere of terror that exists on the Pine Ridge Reservation. ”William Kunstler, the other major defense lawyer in St. Paul, had to rush back to New York where the grievance committee of the NYC Bar Association has filed disciplinary charges against him as a result of his conviction on contempt of court count in the Chicago 7 case.An official of the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration has testified before a congressional committee that no fewer than 750 members of Timothy Leary’s Brotherhood of Eternal Love have in recent years been identified as drug handlers and smugglers. And on Feb. 10, Daniel Ells-berg will receive SANE’s annual Eleanor Roosevelt Peace Award. Richard Bucklin, sentenced to 15 months at hard labor for desertion, mad he wasn’t allowed to call la Fonda, Benjamin Spock as trial witnesses.

It’s reliably reported that White House counselor Melvin Laird, now stepping down, has told intimates that there are more damaging revelations to come, and he should know. Laird does not believe, however, that the House will vote impeachment. He thinks

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