Page 6-A-Friday, September 5, 1980-The Michigan Daily

1968 1969 1973 1980
FORMER YIPPIE LEADER Abbie Hoffman is shown in several stages of his political career.
Fugitive Hoffman ends exile

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NEW YORK (UPI)-Abbie Hoffman,
fugitive former "Yippie" leader who
got "tired of looking over his shoulder,"
ended six years of life underground
yesterday and surrendered to face drug
charges that could-but probably
won't-bring him a life sentence.
Hoffman, 43, gave up at the office of
the special state narcotics prosecutor
accompanied by his brother, his sister
and Joanna Lawrenson, the woman
who shared his secret life as Berry
Freed, television writer and ecology ac-
tivist, on an island in the St. Lawrence
River.
THE FORMER antiwar activist and
political prankster, disguised by a
beard and with his nose reshaped by
Tne University of Mcigans Department of Tneatre and Dramal
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plastic surgery, faces charges of selling
three pounds of cocaine to undercover
agents on Aug. 28, 1973, and further
charges of skipping out on $10,000 bail.
If convicted of the narcotics charges,
Hoffman could be sentenced to life im-
prisonment under New York state law
because of the amount of drugs in-
volved. However, other 1960s radical
figures who have surrendered recently
have been dealt with lightly and
allowed to plead to reduced charges.
"He was tired of looking over his
shoulder," said Hoffman's brother,
Jack, a 40-year-old manufacturer of
surgical garments from Framingham,
Mass. "Deep down, there was always
that fear."
JACK HOFFMAN said his older
brother had been ready to turn himself
in two years ago. "The time wasn't
right," he said. "The politics weren't
there. The time is right now."

The ex-Yippie, who interrupted his
underground existence to, testify in
disguise before congressional commit-
tees, said he was surrendering to fur-
ther his environmental work to end
dredging in the St. Lawrence River
area in upstate New York.
"The battle to save the river became
more important than my own personal
safety," Hoffman said.' "Until this
fight, the community didn't have a lot
of meaning for me. I really didn't have
any identity. I really sort of needed the
struggle."
HOFFMAN WAS a member of the
Chicago seven, a group of radicals
charged with masterminding violent
demonstrations at the 1968 Democratic
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Convention. The group was convicted,
but an appeals court later overturned
the convictions. He went into hiding af-
ter his arrest on the drug charges.

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