The State : Guilty Plea in Bombs Case

A 1960s radical has pleaded guilty in San Francisco federal court to possession of unregistered explosives in exchange for a maximum nine-year prison term involving the planting of nine bombs in three states. Ronald Kaufman, 49, a one-time anti-war and civil rights demonstrator and associate of Yippie leader Abbie Hoffman, agreed to plead guilty on the single possession count provided that U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson goes along with the nine-year maximum term at his July 10 sentencing. Kaufman reserves the right to withdraw the guilty plea if Henderson imposes a harsher sentence. Kaufman was arrested outside his Marina District home July 16, 1986, on a 1972 indictment.