The Nation - News from Aug. 22, 1986
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Janice Hart, a supporter of radical politician Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr., was found guilty by a jury in Skokie, Ill., of disrupting an archbishop’s speech by presenting him with a piece of raw liver. Hart, who won the Democratic nomination for Illinois secretary of state, was fined $500, the maximum for the misdemeanor conviction. She said she offered the liver to Roman Catholic Archbishop Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee during his speech last year at a synagogue in Glencoe, Ill., to protest his support of the International Monetary Fund.
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