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Feldman became involved in politics his first year at U- M, in 1967, working for Students for McCarthy and traveling around the country to campaign. Sen. Eugene McCarthy was running for president as a peace can- didate against Vice President Hubert Humphrey. Feldman went to the Democratic con- vention in Chicago, where he was beaten by Mayor Richard Daley's police. "I got bopped on the head and my life changed," he said. "From there, everything else follows!' Back at U-M, he became a leader of the Ann Arbor SDS, which undertook such guer- rilla tactics as trashing the ROTC building, throwing paint on a Navy recruiter and dumping dead animals on the desk of a recruiter from Allied Chemical, which manufac- tured DDT. Feldman was one of eight people who signed a letter to the editor of the Michigan Daily in January 1970 defending the trashing of the ROTC building. "One window breaks," it said, "the war goes on, two windows break, the war goes on, three windows break, the war goes on. The people start breaking more windows and the war still goes on. The people get angrier, they organize, they build, they put down their rocks and begin to look for better weapons. The people find better weapons, they find guns, they find unity, they find strength. They act. Power to the people!' University administrators decided to strike back at the SDS in 1970. They had Feldman and nine others ar- rested in February for the Abbie Hoffman: Political Vaudevillian ARTHUR J. MAGIDA Special to The Jewish News S Put Your Feet In Good Hands. Applegate Square only, Northwestern Highway at Inkster. Store hours 10:00 a.m. thru 6:00 p.m. Monday thru Saturday, Thursday 10:00 a.m. thru 9:00 p.m., closed Sunday. 26 misdemeanor of "creating a contention" when a General Electric recruiter visited cam- pus. The same spring, Feldman was arrested two more times in connection with the distruption of a Du- pont recruiter's visit and a demonstration after the con- victions of the Chicago Seven, who were found guilty of try- ing to disrupt the 1968 Dem- ocratic National Convention. After graduation from U-M, Feldman moved to Detroit with 34 other student radicals to live, work and organize. Detroit was chosen, he said, be c ause of its union and black power movements. They put out a newspaper and spent time talking to kids in parks about the war, racism and black power leader Angela Davis. "Sometimes you got great responses from people," he said. "Sometimes they'd beat you up and call you a Com- mie, call you a nigger-lover." Feldman worked briefly at a stamping plant and a steel mill until they found out about his police record, and sometimes as a substitute teacher in Detroit. In 1971, he found a job at Ford's Michigan Truck Plant in Wayne. He has been there for 18 years. "I decided that if I was go- ing to help radically change my country, I should live and work with the people who sang 'Solidarity Forever' and who had built our country in- to the wealthiest nation in the world," he later wrote. During his years at the plant, Feldman's romantic view of the UAW faded and his vision of a Marxist revolu- tion evolved into a search for an American revolution. In 1986, Feldman began in- terviewing co-workers about their lives and their jobs. Last ome of us first heard that Abbie Hoffman had died as we were listening to the news on the radio. It was the morning after Hoffman had been found dead in bed — fully clothed. It was this last item that con- vinced us it was true: Hoff- man, that wily prankster, knew that, these days, people don't die in bed at home clad in their own clothes, clothes they had picked out from the rack in some store or from a FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1989 . -.6hormer44.ftea. four-color catalog that represented by long-distance a shop they had never stepped foot in somewhere in Maine or Wisconsin. No, people died ("expired," in the parlance of the professional) in white- walled institutions, wearing thin, white, institution-issued pajamas and often with needles and tubes going into their body and more tubes coming out. At 52, Hoffman beat this rap, as he had beat many others. The last laugh — and, indeed, this fellow had many laughs — was definite- ly his.