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| CONFIDHNTIAL NY 100-161445 "Defendant Hoffman entered the armory doing cartwheels. He hassled with the microphone and quipped ‘the medium is the mess.' "But, last night was their last stand and Hoffman and Davis lived up to a promise to 'makeit bir.’ "Clownlike, Hoffman appealed for funds in his typical style. ‘It costs a lot of (obscene) money to Ro to prison these days. This trial has set Hanoi back a pretty penny.' "After apologizing for being drunk, ‘They don't serve Acapulco gold on United Airlines,’ he welcomed himself to Maryland. “Recalling a speech given at UMSC the day before the trial began, he explained its relevance to the conspiracy charge: ‘Somehow the government has some kind of screwy computer that can figure all that (obseene) out.' "Remarks he made that night were introduced as evidence against him shortly after the trial had gotten ( underway despite defense objects that they were irrelevant. "Earlier, Davis gleefilly admitted that he and Hoffman had conspired on the plane and noted that last night's speech was probably their last chance to incite anything. "Hoffman, who expects to go to Leavenworth ‘where the straight criminals go--with the big boys,’ said: =52- PONFDENA