Cancer claims Anita Hoffman,Yippie activist

 SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP)
       Anita Hoffman, the activist and prankster who fell in love with Yippie Abbie Hoffman at first sight, helped him "levitate" the Pentagon and later kept him hidden for years from the FBI, died Sunday of breast cancer. She was 56. Ms. Hoffman helped Abbie plot the most memorable pranks of the Yippie  movement, including disrupting the New York Stock Exchange by throwing money on the trading floor, encircling the Pentagon in a protest against the Vietnam War and planning the demonstrations in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

 In one of her most audacious moves, she went on a sort of diplomatic
mission to Algeria to meet with Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver and
 try to forge a coalition between the Panthers and the Yippies.

Ms. Hoffman may be most remembered, however, for how she supported
Hoffman for years while he lived underground to escape drug charges,
raising their son America while keeping law enforcement agencies at bay.
Her husband committed suicide in 1989. Ms. Hoffman also was a freelance writer and novelist. She wrote a memoir
of those years, "To America with Love: Letters from the Underground," and later, under a pseudonym, wrote the novel "Trashing."