Word: rubin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cook County State's Attorney's Office, produced the juiciest testimony. Disguised in goggles and blue jeans and astride a rented motorcycle, Pierson had infiltrated a yippie group known as the Headhunters, and soon rose to the dizzying position of personal bodyguard to the yippie leader, Jerry Rubin. Pierson told how he had attended a yippie party in suburban Chicago where there was plenty of dope and girls, and informed the shocked committeemen, "They drank, took pills and engaged in sex." As for Rubin Pierson testified, "he said we were to kill the pigs, all the presidential candidates...
...Rubin and other demonstration leaders are scheduled to testify before the subcommittee on Thursday, the second day of hearings...
Bushy-bearded Yippie leader Jerry Rubin, a major figure in the demonstrations, was led from the House Office Building by police for the second time in one day. He was evicted earlier when he tried to enter the hearings wearing a bandolier ribbed with live bullets...
...hearings" were interrupted throughout the afternoon by protests from Rubin and other spectators. "This is not an attempt to find the truth. This is an attempt to smear," said Rubin, who termed the session a "little Chicago," pointing to the 20-odd policemen lining the walls of the hearing room. At one point, another Yippie stood in the audience to ask if he could go to the bathroom...
Gleb Nerzhin, in many ways a stand-in for Solzhenitsyn himself, makes an opposite choice to Rubin's. By refusing to work on a new bugging device, he condemns himself to Siberia. He is the character most conscious of the paradox that pervades the novel: that in Stalin's Russia only those in prison are truly free to be honest with one another. "When you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power ?he's free again...