Protest: The Disruptive Dozen

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Who's Who. Some of the names in the indictments constitute a Who's Who of rabid radicalism. Mark Rudd, 22, who helped organize the 1968 student protests at Columbia University and served as S.D.S. chairman there, is national secretary of the breakaway Weatherman faction. Bernardine Dohrn, 27, La Pasionaria of the lunatic left, is S.D.S.'s former interorganizational secretary; Jeffrey Jones, 22, now holds that position in the Weathermen. William Ayres, 25, is the group's educational secretary.

Though bench warrants have been issued for all twelve defendants, no date has been set for their trial and none appears likely to be set soon. Most of them, like other Weathermen, went underground around December. Their friends and families have refused to say where they are holed up. Miss Dohrn has been sought by authorities since she failed to appear in court March 16 to answer state charges stemming from the fall rioting. Kathy Boudin, 26, also charged last week, has been missing since a March 6 explosion leveled a Greenwich Village town house that police said militants had been using as a bomb factory. So has Cathy Wilkerson, 25, whose father owned the building. She was named in the indictment as a coconspirator, not a defendant. Two other coconspirators, Ted Gold, 23, and Diana Oughton, 28, were killed in the Manhattan blast.

Hoffman's posting to another controversial case was not the week's only irony. The grand jury that indicted the Chicago Seven also charged eight policemen with violating demonstrators' rights during the 1968 Democratic national convention. Federal juries have acquitted six, reached no verdict on the seventh, leaving only Patrolman Ramon Andersen, 35, charged with beating a reporter and a college instructor. Last week U.S. Attorney Thomas Foran, unable to find any witnesses to the clubbings but the victims themselves, sought —and received—Justice Department permission to drop the charges.