Nation: Ten Years Later

Notes from the underground

There they were, four of the Chicago Seven, on trial all over again, exactly ten years after their uproarious visit to Chicago for the 1968 Democratic Nation al Convention. Former Black Panther Bobby Scale, originally the eighth member and now a touring lecturer at $1,500 a shot, did not shout interruptions or end up in handcuffs, however. In stead, the only disturbances at the mock trial in Manhattan's Felt Forum last week, written by Candy Author Terry Southern, came from rock bands, nostalgic slide shows of the '60s, impersonators of...

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