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' C O O O l S l ~ .* . . Outside activities of trial dsfcndants continncd to make news ' during the week. On 18 December Rtnnic Davis addressed a DcKalb, Illinois Student Mobilization Comm'ittce rally and t d d his 1,100 listeners that Memorial Day was to be celebrated on Army posts by. "lang hair students and short hair GI's. I' And on IS Deccrnbcr three *capons' (pgsscssion) charger yerc dismirred against Abbie Hoffman in Manhattan Criminal Court. These charps grew aiit of a &lice raid ifi March 1969 00 Hoffm8n'a apartment, but the District Attorney's office told the Judge it had insufficient Aidence to prosecute. . . Weeks number 14 and 15 (15 December-2 January) of Chicago's conspiracy ttial belonged, moatly, to 33-year-old Yiopie leader . Abbott (Abbie) Hoffman, f i r s t of the dcfcndants to take the stand. His direct testimony, interrupted by a five day bout with bmnchitis, was tho first sgtious defense effort to convince jurors Hoffman's malt of Yippics (and his Youth International Party) wa6 a myth, a great hoaxI a "put-on" to which Chicago police aver-reacted with brutality and vhlcncc. Hoffman and his Yippies were intent on violence and tried to carve nut a "liberatcd znnc" in the heart of Chicago drrrinp thc convcntion where laws would bc suspended and people-could dg as they olcaaed. . Prosecutors countcrcd eltiring c r o s s -examination ,to provc . As soon as Hoffman took the stand it became a p k a k n t the nncn hns tility bctwecn dcfcnsc! and prosccrrtion wattld continric. When coun- sel Leonard I. Weinglass asked his name, Hoffman replied, "Mv name is Abbie. IIrn an orphan of.Amcrica. 'I Prosccntor Richard Schultz objected, requesting the record show defendant IinTirnan was on the stand. name on the indictment. Another argument eruptcd when Weinglass askcd where the defendant lived. "1 live in the Wmdstock Nation, I' Irc said. (Wmdstock Nation, the title of a book written by Hoffman, takcs its name from thc rack festival attended by several hunrlrcd tliotrsand young people last summcr in upstate Ncw York. ) Schnltz pratcstcd the rcply was unresponsive. Witness Hoffman explained Ihat' Woodstock Nation was not a placc, but a %tat6 of mind" - "a nation of alicnatrd ynirng pcoplc which we c a r r y around wlth tis in nur mint18 jrrst as the Sic?iix Indians carricd arairnd lhc Siciox Natirrna in thcir muads. Ju'dge Julius Hoffman so ordered, noting Hoffman was thc _. . . ._ "Just tell ::a whctrcyou live, 'I uaicl thc Jirdg~, "Nothing about 0 philosophy or Indians. tt. When asked him age, Haffman'saiil he was physically born in 1436 but that psychologically he w a s horn in 1960. I o another question ha replied, "My occubation is a e\i4tnra\ revoln- - tianary, but I'm really a defendant full-time." a n d SA it went. whimsical rcply eliciting a p r a s a u t i o n abjection, as Weinglass attempted . . Each . 'to 1 - - - 'lave --- his witncss give his view on youth culture, the Jvneration RaD, - B 6 r" I : . . . - . .