Chicago: Poor Climate for Weathermen

You don't need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

—Subterranean Homesick Blues, by Bob Dylan

Assuming that it was blowing their way, a faction of the sundered Students for a Democratic Society known as "The Weatherman" took to Chicago's streets last week in a desperate attempt to re-ignite the violence that marked the Democratic National Convention, One lure was the trial of eight radicals accused of conspiring to incite the 1968 upheaval. But the youngsters had a selection of excuses for agitation: the second anniversary of Che Guevara's death, their avowed goal of "bringing the war...

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