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'Side-shows Too'

Covering all events includes the
side-shows, too, which could be the
most dangerous event of the weekend.
At 5 p.m. Saturday a group of
radicals will picket the Justice
Department on behalf of the
"Chicago Conspiracy," and will
hear a speech from Abbie Hoffman.
Meanwhile, the progressive labor
faction of SDS will picket the
Labor Department while a third
group, composed of the Weathermen,
SDS'ers, Yippies and others,
will follow Jerry Rubin in a march
on the Saigon embassy. The Weathermen
are widely considered the
most violent element of the antiwar
marchers, and the general fear
of violence (not helped any by Mr.
Rubin's claim that he will christen
the embassy the "Provisional
Government of South Vietnam"
after he liberates it) is at its
strongest here. And Sunday, in a
local dispute, marchers will rally at
the controversial Three Sisters
Bridge, to protest its construction.