Chicago 7 Duped Youths, Jury Told

L.A. Times/Wai ngton Past Service

CHICAGO . The government's chief prosecutor closed out the Chicago conspiracy trial arguments yesterday with a bitter, emotional charge that the defendants are "evil men" who had duped less sophisti cated youth..

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"They are sophisticated and they are smart and well-educated and they are as evil as they can be," U.S. Attorney Thomas Foran told the jury, which will begin deliberating on a verdict today.

Judge Julius J. Hoffman announced he would give final instructions to the jury this morning. He has indicated the jurors will be ex-

pected to deliberate through the weekend, remaining at work until around 10 p.m. each night.

IN HIS PASSIONATE finale, Foran accused the seven defendants of deliberately leading young protesately leading young protesters at the 1968 Democratic National Convention into violent confrontations with police to further their revolutionary designs.

They intended, he said, "to corrupt those kids and use them for their own intentions."

"Are we going to be conned like that into believing that the bad people are the police or the FBI?" Foran asked.

son if you like the homosex ual poetry of Allen Ginsberg? We can't let these people use our kids like that.".

Ginsberg, the poet and religious mystic, had testified for the defense. During cross-examination, For an had read into the record some of his poetry involving homosexuality.

THE JURY, A predominantly middle-class and working-class panel, was unusually attentive to Foran's description of the defendants, by far the strongest personal criticism of them during the marathon trial.

The seven men are ac“Are you only a good percused of conspiring to cross

state lines with intent to incite riots at the 1968 convention. Foran contended they tried to lure thousands of demonstrators to the city for violent confrontations, using the device of planned using the device of planned protests against racism and the war in Vietnam.

True social reform, the prosecutor said, would come through people who are "truthful, pure and loving...and not by liars and obscene haters like these men are.”

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AT ONE POINT Foran sarcastically asked the jury if it could imagine that the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. would have associated with the defendants. "Yes, I can,” shouted one

spectator on the defense staff bench, and several others joined with cheers of encouragement.

Judge Hoffman ordered marshals to remove them, one of whom was the daughter of David Dellinger, a defendant. Dellinger rose to yell encouragement to his daughter and then shouted at a marshal, "Don't hit my daughter."