'Militant' report. 1443 The lecal chapters of the Fair Play for Guba Committee and Young Socialist Alliance face a grand jury probs here. The threatenad move stems from events when the Suban crisis was at its height and an Ad Hoc Committee to Oppose U.5. Aggression was formed by University of Indiana students. Its widely publiciss.ed demonstration on Oct. 24 infuriated rightist elements of the town and university. Twenty-two "ad hocers,"™ as they are now called, were forced in the course of their demonstration to abandon their march to downtown Bloomington after all their signs had bean destroyed by a howling mob of several thousand studsonts, sprinkled with Birchites from tow,
Some of the anti-war demonstrations -— both men and women — wore kicked, slugged, struck by rocks, and knecked to the ground by the hysterical mob. Luckily, no one suffered pormanent injury. Slogans on the placards destroyed by the mob condemned the U.3. blockade, ealled for an end to the trade embargo against “uba, urged negotiations instead of intimidation and the removal of U.S. bases from foreign soil, condemned Kennedy's actions and threats against Cuba's sovereignty and stressed the necessity for peace. During the demonstration, two members of the mob were arrested — one for striking a policeman and the other for striking a demonstrator. Their cases were due to come up in Bloomington City Court Feb.1. but on Jan.15 a local paper announced that oriminal proceedings against the two offenders had baed dropped by Prosscutor-eslect Thomas Hoadley "to clear the way for a full investigation." The target of Hoadley's “full investigation" will be the FPOC and YSA, He said the grand jury's intersst in the demonstration will be “centered around" determining whether thoss campus organizations "ware dsliberatoly inciting riot and if it was done as a provocation,
Hoadley gave the following explanation of his refusal to prosecute the mambars of tha mob arrested for violence: "I am not convinesd that the total blame of this near—riot should be placed on the shoulders of these anti-demonstrators, as cortain professors, committess and other people would suggest." This was a reference to the hearing conducted by the American Association of University Professors on the roughingup of an IU faculty member by tie mob,
Though disclaiming any intention of staging a witch-hunt, Hoadley is obviously planning just that, For this hoe first neaded to drop the ¢riminal assault charges befora launching an attack on ths FPCO and YA. Both organizations have refused to divulgs membership lists to the university administration, which is under hsavy prassure from trustess, state politicians, Birchers and local right-wing businessmen. These groups clamor for “ousting the reds," “clsaning up the university," and getting rid of "pink" profossors.