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NY 100-161445 “ABBIE HOFFMAN, the chief Yippie, gave a talk before the film. HOFFMAN is guest in the city for the hearing of various court cases against him resulting from the riots. "ABBIE HOFFMAN is dangerous because he has a sense | of humor. He is one of the modern masters of the put~on. He ml has a great zest for life. He stood on the stage and chided i the students for being in college, for seeking a deprece. j 'What's uw degree? What do you want with money?', he-atked with the grin of a man who seems to be having a real-ball aa without money. a "The film is effective because it is a mix of low. comedy and high tragedy. The technique is to make quick cuts from old movie shots burlesgqing the establishment to films taken during the rioting, and showing, naturally enough, policemen beating demonstrators. "Tney've also got hold of some newsreel clips Mayor DALEY would like to forget. One is his slip of the toncve in a press conference when he said 'The police are not here to create disorder. They sre here to preserve disorder’. This is constantly repeated (with DALEY's voice) during the melee. "So the Yippies have a weapon. They'll show this film on campuses across the country, and the kids will Jsugh and they will be horrified at the beatings and they'll hate Chicago. rh . "But I think they'll] also laugh the Yipnvies off the campus if the scene at the U. of C. is duplicated. te es "HOFFMAN talked, the movie was shown, his whole thing took less than an hour, and the Yippies had made points with the Chicago students. They should have quit. hey didn't." Pd é ™. IV. WRITINGS ? Db