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a ewe . - ABBOTT HOWARD HOFFMAN "Hoffman went on to say that he thought that if Hubert Humphrey or Edmund Muskie get the nomination, there ig a strong possibility of a third party emerging. Hoffman ajso said that there will be demonstraticns at the national conventions, especially the Republican convention. He said there are currently severa: organizers in San Diego planning demonstrations. Hoffman, who said he has more than 30 speeches scn 1eduled in tne next Trew months, noted a change in the mood of American campuses. "They are more cynical, more disillusioned now," he said, "this is behind a lot of the interest in mysticism and the heroin problem," "He also discussed narcotics and mentioned thai he had recommended the shaving of heroin pusher's heads as a form of vigilante action. However, he predicted that legalization of marijuana would come in five to ten years. "The current laws have made outlaws of 26,000,000 people, according to the Nixon commission's report," he said, referring to the recent estimate of marijuana use by the Presidential Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse. Hoffman reiterated a recent statement that the Mar y Sol pop festival in Puerto Rico was an insult to the island. He said that he had talked to the festival's promoters in an attempt to find out what kind of arrangements they had made faker ranitatian AAT AAT onan ant Athan Fant littacn Ta AWE BGs Ve Vivils Meaicaa VLG liu ounerx AGL LILVItToO, Me applauded recent laws on the mainland which enable authorities to prosecute unscrupulous festival promoters. "When you get several thousands people who have paid from $15 to $20 a piece for tickets and there's no music and no facilities, it's fraud. All festivals have been an attempt to recepture the spirit of Woodstock," "Hoffman, while saying he had enjoyed his stay in &t Tho mas, nad a few insights to give into the life of a notorious enemy of the establishment. He claimed that Federal agents had visited his house several times looking for fugitives and had kept him under surveillance. He said that when follow Chicago Seven defendant Jerry Rubin visited him recently, Federal and local authorities were "all over the place" when he met Rubin at the airport. Public Safety Commissioner Eldridge Waith denied knowledge of this, however,