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Abbie Hoffman — Part 16
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attorney for GUS REICHBACH, described as
a Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
militant and “object of a dramatic series
of Columbia disciplinary hearings---".
ie GERALD LEFCOURT was identified as the
The SDS was founded during June, 1962, at
Port Huron, Michigan, and in the 1960's
functioned as the leading New Left campus-
based student organization in the nited
States, From a stance of "participatory
democracy," the SDS moved to a radical-
revolutionary position, Jt maintained a
national office at 1608 West Madison
Street, Chicago, Illinois, until February,
1970. Internal factionalism during 1969
produced three main factions: Weatherman,
Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM), and
Worker Student Alliance (WSA). The
Weatherman and RYM no longer consider
themselves associated with the SDS. The
WSA faction continues to use the name SDS,
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D. Status of Health
The "New York Post", a NYC daily newspaper, in
its July 12, 1971, issue on Page 28, contained an article
by JAY LEVIN entitled, "Abbie Gets His Nose Fixed" which
sta
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ed in part as follows:
"As ABBIE HOFFMAN puts it, his nose happened to
hit a cop's nightstick during the Mayday demonstrations while
the rest of his face was busy beating up the poor stick. His
nose got scrunched by its efforts, and so like any good Jewish
Yippie leader, he's getting it fixed.
"As ABBIE tells it from his bed at the Albert Einstein
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he seeks but breath, 'I had a slipped disk and I had 20 stitches
taken in my head and I had a broken nose', he said nasaly -
recalling the fight with the nightstick. ‘And in the past two
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