Janice Hart in court, mum on cleric protest

The usually loquacious Janice Hart was untalkative yesterday asshe appeared in court on a charge of disorderly conduct.

Hart, the Democratic nominee for Illinois secretary of state,and a follower of Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr., was arrested last May 7when she presented a piece of raw liver to the Roman Catholicarchbishop of Milwaukee.

Circuit Judge Morris Topol continued the case to May 27 afterpermitting Hart's attorney to withdraw from the case.

Hart ignored reporters' questions as she left the Skokie branchof the court. Instead reporters were handed a statement in whichHart attacked Archbishop Rembert Weakland as a supporter of theInternational Monetary …