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NY 100-161445 "T went to see and interview Abbie well equipped with biggie cans of Miller's and butter flavored pretzels, The great man of the new American Revolution did not exactly refuse to be interviewed otherwise, but he did allow that a ve ee er ey Gn t+¢hawnea we the cans of Miller's would be highly welcome, So there you are, your unfaithful reporter, Abbie, his nose swollen and pudgy and taped up and he can't breathe through it, and his lady Anita, notorious aut horess, seven months pregnant, they are going to call the kid America, they have an apart- ment which is simply beautiful which they built themselves on the roof of a factory building not far from Union Square, they call each other Babe and seem very much in love after being together four or five years, they took each into a union you can call marriage if you wish at a ceremoney in Central Park, how about that? CN "tTey are trying to suppress if,' he says and you can see the hurt in his voice, ‘Thirty publishers turned the book down',..even though hundreds of thousands of copies of his previous books were sold, Revolution for the Hell of It, 800,000 (figures Abbie), Woodstock Nation 200,000 and now gGhg into a new special paper back edition. They still all turned out his book and Abbie had to publish it himself. One publishing house said 'It wasn't radical enough.’ Another one complained that ‘it lacked literary merit.' 'I was offered $40,000 by one publisher if I would only take out three chapters and change the title of the book.' He shows me the letters from the great liberals and the great underground stations, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, WCBS-FM, all refusing for one reason or another to accept ads. The radio stations gave as an excuse un-named FCC regulations, He shows me the copy for the radio commercial, a completely inoffensive little skit that any station would accept were the product a new brand of tomato juice. "Is our hero discouraged? Not on your revolutionary bippy he ain't, even though 5,000 copies of his book were just seized on the Canadian border. 80,000 copies of STEAL THIS BOOK have been sold already and Abbie is already working on STEAL THIS BOOK No, 2. With the con-_mpt that it deserves we ae ee me ee me en en em ep em em ee. poremns