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Gainesville Eight Get Hearing on FBI

Judge Orders Bugging Investigation

Arnow fined CBS Television $500 after one of its artists sketched the Gainesville courtroom from memory.

Arnow hinted yesterday he might modify the rule but he did not specify how it might be changed.

The seven Vietnam veterans and sole supporter who make up the Gainseville Eight were charged last summer with planning an assault on the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach.

They were allegedly preparing crossbows, rocket slingshots, incendiary and smoke bombs, fried marbles (heated to shatter on impact) and automatic weapons to attack the convention hall, police stations and police cruisers.

Most of the government's case is based on the testimony of two informers.

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The VVAW charged that the informers are not telling the truth.

Jury selection began Monday under extremely tight security. Twenty-five federal marshals have been assigned to the Federal Office Building to assist local police and sheriff's deputies. Only five reporters at one time were permitted inside the courtroom.

Metal weapons detectors at the entrance to the building were set off by shrapnel still embedded in the bodies of three of the Vietnam war veterans.

About 200 demonstrators have pitched tents in a nearby park to provide moral support for the Gainesville Eight

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