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\. NY 100-161445 : "was brimming with plans for a crusade to Vietnam, where the youth of the world would negotiate a peace - ‘or else'", according to the article. He was noted to have said‘to the press at O'Hare upon his arrival that American members of his party - “students, lawyers and doctors" = would confer in the next four months with their counterparts in Japan, Mexico and Latin America, co- ordinate plans and then journey to Vietnam to work out details for a peace treaty. The article related that HOFFMAN had stated that if United States troops are not out. of Vietnam by April 25, (no year noted), then the Yippies would arrange to be in Washington, D.C., en masse on May 1. HOFFMAN, according to this article, was not explicit about the nature of this demonstration, describing it once @s an "attack" and later as a "confrontation", When asked by a reporter wnat form the “attack” would take, the article quotes him as stating, "We have lots of weapons’. _—_—__oo HOFFMAN reportedly was ff, Chicago, Illinois, for hearings to begin November 19, 1970 on whether any of the jurors in the Chicago 7 Conspiracy trial received improper communications during their deliberations. Regarding these hearings, HOFFMAN had stated "We always thought the jury is the highest authority in the courtroom, but Judge What's-His-Name (HOFFMAN) didn't think so." The article continued that HOFFMAN described four of the jurors as sympathetic to the defendants during the trial, and hoped that at the hearings they would reconfirm their sympathy. "We always had the feeling that if the jury had considered all the evidence we would have been freed. So I hope those jurors stick to their guns", he is quoted as stating. At one point, the article described HOFFMAN further as at times somber and at times bursting into unexplained laughter. He had interrupted the brief press conference on one occasion to state, "Man, have I got a headache. Has anybody here got any acid." t . On November 19, 1970m@d November 20, 1970, ABBOTT HOFFMAN was observed by SAS of the FBI in the United States District Court-~ room of Judge JULIUS HOFFMAN, where the above referred to hearings took place, sitting at the defense counsel table throughout both cone ee ag ER IT om eee ay