Radicals: Storm Clouds for Weathermen

The Federal Government reaffirmed last week that the bellicose Weathermen deserve to be taken at their word when they vow to make war on American society. The radical group, a grand jury charged, contained a criminal revolutionary conspiracy complete with a central directorate, small cells, explosives and the intent to kill.

It was not the first criminal charge against the Weathermen, a breakaway faction of the Students for a Democratic Society, but it was the most encompassing. The indictment was filed in Detroit because, it was charged, the conspiracy was born at a secret meeting of the Weathermen in Flint,...

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