The Chicago action has also been called the Chicago massacre. Members of the National Action Gang (nominally led by Columbia's Mark Rudd, now a Weatherman) have been working out on weekends, running through calisthenies and self-defense exercises. The official name for the program is "Days of Rage."

The Weathermen, members of RYM (although many milder RYM adherents have lately begun dissociating themselves from certain Weathermen offensives) are an outgrowth of last year's New Left, viewed at the time as being less militant than WSA. While WSA is well-organized, tightly disciplined, and patient, building for revolution around the support of America's working class, the Weathermen are flamboyant. They use guerrilla tacties, hit-and-run violence.

The Chicago action is viewed as an armed return to the site of the bloody Democratic National Convention, five days of escalating action culminating in a disruption of the "Chicago 8" conspiracy trial. The eight, including Abbie Hoffman; Bobby Scale, national chairman of the Black Panthers; David Dellinger, national chairman of the Mobilization Committee to end the War; Tom Hayden, Rennie C. Davis, Jerry Rubin, John Froines, and Lee Weiner, are accused of conspiring to incite a riot during the Democratic convention.

Bill Ayers, a Weatherman organizer from Michigan, said during the summer that perhaps 20,000 people were expected in Chicago; 15,000 actually demonstrating and 5000 hard-core SDS. (To Ayers SDS means RYM, the group that walked out. And in the midwest this is fairly accurate; PL is strong only on the coasts.) As tentatively planned, there will be eight "centers" where people will stay, perhaps church basements or student cooperatives around the University of Chicago area. People from each center will act together and form into cadres of 40 each that will fight police together-that is, if a policeman charges the demonstrators, rather than run these people will band together and attack him.

Students in different parts of the country have reported different instructions, but general policy scems to favor coming armed with any weapons short of guns. These may range from clubs and baseball bats to firecrackers and black widow spiders in jars. There are, however, some planning to bring guns as well; Mark Rudd flatly told his B. U. audience that people will be killed in Chicago.

The Chicago action was first proposed during the SDS national convention. The five day offensive as now outlined will include:

A march on the first day through Chicago's Old Town, to unite demonstrators and initiate the idea of marching and street fighting.

Disruption of high schools, known as the "jailbreak"-the plan includes briefing the high schools students in advance to join the demonstrators in the streets.

A "women's liberation day" when a women's brigade will march bare-breasted into banks and courts.

A rock festival in Lincoln Park, hopefully featuring the Fugs.

A march through Chicago's Loop to the Federal Building where the conspiracy trial is being held, disruption of the trial, and possible destruction of buildings along the route of the march.

It should be stressed that these plans are only probable. Weatherman strategy is of the moment. Five Days of Rage. As one Harvard junior, whose polities fall into what the Village Voice calls "that crevice between liberalism and revolution," said, "PL could never plan "Days of Rage." They just don't think like that. But that's how the Weathermen live."

October 15

The Vietnam Moratorium is supported by students at 500 American universities. It is supported by John Kenneth Galbraith, George Wald, and Martin Peretz at Harvard, and Noam Chomsky at M. I. T. It's written about in the New York Times editorialized for in the New Republic, and supported by Sen. Eugene McCarthy, Sen. Charles E. Goodell of New York, Sen. Mark O. Hatfield of Oregon and Sen. George McGovern. It's supported by the Democratie National Chairman, Sen. Fred R. Harris of Oklahoma. And there are rumors that a statement of support will be presented at today's Faculty meeting.

The Vietnam Moratorium was conceived as an anti-war student moratorium last July-by three former McCarthy staffers: Sam Brown, national student coordinator for the McCarthy campaign; David Mixner, a former organizer of farm workers; and draft resister David Hawk. The idea of an escalating moratorium-one day in October, two in November, and so on "until there is a clear commitment to end U. S. involvement in Vietnam"-seems to have been accepted by most of the liberal establishment.

The Moratorium is also supported by the Student Mobilization Committee, the organizers of the march on Washington. It is opposed by most of the more radical groups. WSA accuses it of selling out to the very imperialists which it must fight. And a spokesman for the November Action Committee, a coalition of groups planning a week of demonstrations in the Boston area, calls it "objectively ok, but not a way to end the war."