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Abbie Hoffman — Part 8
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By RON GEORGEFF
Like there was this cat Vast
night — Abbie Hoffman, you
«now? — who really got down
and told where it’s at. To .
someting like 500 pecple at
the University of Hartford
Grengras Campus Center.
Mostly students!
Wow! Was it beautiful ihe
way he rapped about
America and the Revolution
going on. He's the leader of —
you know, 4hat
group who neminated | a Pigs
for President last year.
But right now
man, with seven others, is
like about to cothe to trial —
Rant 94 in fant —. in Mhinana
ie eh i Oe oe Thad
on a charge af conspiracy in
fennection with the 1968
Democratic convenlion riots.
the ¥i ippies,
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this Hoff-
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He said the opening of the
trial was the opening day of
the American World Series af
Injustice, isn't hat great? I—~—-
_ mean, like he also termed the
trial as being. a contes:. The
Chicago Conspiraters vs. the
Atoerican Kangaroos, Wowt
Hollman like went on, too,
a virlual non-Siop diScourse |
on this country and same of
the things he secs in it that
are off base.
Take ihe moon shot. Il was
Kellogg's: who brought you
tat, he said. He even told
what Neil Armstreng said
.when he stepped onio the
moon:
“One stval] step for man
Suap' One giant —
Crackte!—leap for mackind.
Pop" Can yen imagine Co-
Sages
= e . e
; WV ow
lumbus stepping onto America
and saying, ‘Buy Genoa
Pye t tthe had
1eaegialil .
Take be books, He writes, you
know, Dial Press published
his “Revolution for the Hell
of it” last November and last
_ hight he said Hollywood
wanted to make a movie out
of it already. Isn't that a gas? -
He's got a new book coming
-* gut Monday from Random
House called “The: Wodstoock
Nation.”
But seriously, this Hoffman
is all right- He claimed he’s
been arrested 10 times since,
Chicago (that means Chicago, —
1968, the convention) and
hast served lime yet. I
mean, like he’s got an ac-
counlant to figure out his.
sentences, he said.
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