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oo awe - a oo ee - tae » eM Dee x er re ar - . ~ A Nae Boa ©: SECM eo ay 4 “th! oe . a ; NY 100-161445 | [ : t se me x 4 , The "New York Post", a New York City daily newspaper, in its issue of September 5, 1968, on page 3 sets forth an artitle entitled "As a Yippie Sees Chicago: A Victory", which states in part as follows: "Abbie Hoffman, a 'non-leader' of the Yippies, the turned-on, psyched-up wing of the peace movement, had just spent three days writing a book, ‘Revolution for the Hell of It.' The book, of course, was about what happened in Chicago last week. "Resting now in his Lower East Side apartment, weary from the tumult of the convention and his three days before the typewriter, he talked quietly about the future and about how his side has ‘totally won' the Battle of Chicago. “'tWell, we're going to sue the city of Chicago for $100,000.00 in personal hjuries, and we're going to follow ‘Humphrey around the country with the slogan 'Dump the Hump'... and then we're going to end up at the Inauguration in January in Washington' "In Chicago one night last week he had read off the number of one of Hubert Humphrey ' s credit ecards to 4,000 young people assembled-for a 'rump' convention. He read it off, laughed and leaped in the air like an excited kid- revolution for the fun of it. "But now in New York he was serious. L they called us hardcore anarchists with plots to overthrow the government! he said. ‘Well that's not a secret. That's always been the case. What's the big deal? "tIn Chicago we had two aims. One was to present the reality of American as we saw it as long-haired dropouts. And what we see is America as a police state. The second was to present the reality and beauty of struggling for a new society. ! . "'It was those realities were wanted to being to Chicago, and we feel we accomplished it. I heard a slogan I never heard before: 'The whole world is watching!'! THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING! It's true.. ~25- - si