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Abbie Hoffman — Part 14
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Hoffman Says Antiwar
Drive at Critical Point
STILLWATER w# — Ter-
ming the next two weeks the
the most critical in the history
of the antiwar campaign, Yip-
ie leader Abbie Hoffman
ednesday night predicted
troop rebellions in Vietnam
and civil disobedience in
Washington.
He urged an audience of
about 2,500 at Oklahoma State
University to join scheduled
antiwar demonstrations in
May, staging their own demon-
strations in Stillwater if they
cannot go to Washington.
On May 5, he said, “‘there
will be strikes at universities
and on May 5 there very dam-
ned well be strike (sic) at Ok-
Jahoma State Universty.” |
ON HIS arriva) at Oklahoma
City’s Will Rogers World Air-
port, Hoffman had predicted
the troop rebellions.
“Rebgiienbyasmed units in
Vietnam~welb-begig in the next
two err antin newsmen.
He erat antiwar leaders
wo broadcasting encour-
agement over. Radio Hanoi to
urg® American troops in Viet-#
nam rebel. He said tape
record) jade in New York
by hi’group will be broadcas
to $.
olfman’s appearance was
without incident, although it
had been delayed a year by a
speaker policy that banned
him from a scheduled talk on
campus last year. A feder-
al suit to overrule the policy
was dismissed this spring be-
cause regents adopted a new
licy which did not prohibit
§ appearance.
Hoffman is free on $25,000
bond pending appeal of his
conviction in connection with
the riots at the Democratic
national convention in 1968,
HE TOLD THE OSU au-
dience there “is more to being
a revolutionist than smokin,
rass and hanging a picture o
he Guevara on the wall,” as
he cautioned students about
what drugs they use. He drew
his biggest applause of the
night when he told students to
avoid all needle-injected |
@rugs, adding. ‘‘The o ope
w ing. rd Nix-
Vesitier in Oklahoma City,
Hoffman said government offi-
cials have been harassing left-
ist leaders for the past few
weeks. and he predicted that
__two hours later.
all of the Chicago Seven de-
fendants wil] soon be arrested,
including himself, within the
next two weeks.
He described Leslie Bacon,
the 19-year-old girl arrested
Wednesday as a materia] wit-
ness to the March 1 bombing
of the nation’s Capitol, as “one
of the key organizers of the
May Day demonstrations.”
“ISN’T IT convenient,” he
added, ‘‘that four days before
the demonstration, they arrest
one of the key organizers?”
He said two FBI agents fol-
lowed him to Oklahoma.
tadeaak tts apn Shen
id.
en he opened his talk, he
held out a ring and told the au-
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of their home.
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sons of Mr. And Mrs. Yoe For-
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children were playing when
she went to visit a neighbor.
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