1613-1 Republican National Convention 1972 and Protests f •.r- app
By DAVID HESS "a r
ia rassianee 111... .• l `�•
WASHINGTON — The r 1 tr `- ''
government official directing t/•" • Mar • wti,
the audit of the Committees
to Reelect the President met pg"
secretly Wednesday in Miami "aa� r"F
witn the committee's finance
chairman, Maurice Stens, to "is -' `' 1 (Ill
go over the Investigation's t. • Sp
findings before they are 'J r• ► do
made public. `,' oft
The meeting, at the re- v
quest of Stens,was designed r�
to allow the committee to re-
spond to charges that it has vii
mishandled certain campaign l"
donations. t •
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Philip S. Hughes. director Cry
of the Office of Federal Elec.
'Ions in the General/Account-
Ing offire'(GAO), flew to i't -Marais firs PM,.by ane t V,t
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'• Miami late Tuesday and re •
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4„ tinned to^Washington late �tivJubikntt Spiro Agnea' and Richard Nixon Receive Accolades of the GOP
Wednesday. •
Hughes and his Investiga- Than
800 Are Arrested
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campaign donations to!Wit- St
dent Nixon got into the bank P
account of Bernard L. Bark- e'
et. a Miami real estate bm- tt
kerwhowasamongfivemen After
Spreading Street Chaos
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linnet Headquarters in the ft
Watergate Apartment com •
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By MIKE BAXTER k1 • Alt t,•
HUGHES had been prnmis- • Nereid u.N wen.. as"� '• iaR'.` '.`1 E.� •'� as
ing for several days that a An anti-war protest army /►' 1% `r a -
report on the campaign funds marched through +an Gene . !reek t .s a
would be made available this pall of tear-gas W dnesday �.1‘�+"Imp A 1 s '• `t
Meek.A GAO information of- night into repeated mass•ar• " ' ► el!t '
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c! rest confrontations:with p0- � � f sWks, � � � ',2
� ` `• �j�cready for the report Tuesday lice in a night filled with ►,'$fit rir
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afternoon, Then. at the last chants and gas -canisters + r \ - s"It /•a•
minute, Hughes delayed re- popping like strings of fire- A• 1 I '�,•
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lease of the report, he said, crackers. 4 �/ 7.
because"it's not complete" I a ,s' t l �+
The havoc forced officials its •
Upon learning of the meet-
ing in Miami, Lawrence F. gas-masked I men when [�reu�,
O'Brien, national campaign about 1,000 0 3,000 mon- ��! 9?S /
chairman for Democratic strators on h the Re. `'' �• ,
presidential nominee George publican National Cnnven- v ,..,"•;',
S. McGovern, charged that tion abandoned a long-plan• ,; N a
"Mr. Nixon's agents 41.4
nod strategy of barring dole- �a �� • t
err doing everything In their _fj l
gates from Picsident MX.11.1 i ...,,
lower to piuntott+ the most acceptance speech with mos- OP'prs"'1 a .
outrageous conspiracy of -••-•. ,
sive non-violent til-ins at
suppression that live wit- critical intersections. :�i . •- 1 +ta►•.
nested Ina generation of po- •�` 'tea•a '� �y•
titles!activity." Police had trucked more '" 4'• •- 4e -•
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than 800 protesters to jail by rr -. •
SOURCES here said that midnight Wednesday after - •► J ••-` ` ; •'�^ �
Stens called GAO Comptrol- lines of lawmen across Col- •_fin-[ - •"
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let General Elmer Stasis, tins Avenue aborted a march 5. - .... ' ilia.�1►-f,�_
Hughes' boss, and pleaded on the Doral Hotel and ended .e
for a chance to respond to a tire-slashing, trash•barri• -�e ,`� 1 ":
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any allegations made in ceding attempt to freeze con- Y Y .via •(: S -k
Hughes'report. vcntion traffic. -ysm ` :-yi rat -
Hughes conferred with t°"-r '•
l Wend Beach Police Chief -
Stoats at least twice Tues- Rocky Pomerance said: •
day,then pulled back the re•
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port and left town. Neither "I cannot understand why ;,k :,,--ti.,.;i-
, these people who are for
Turn to Page 2A Col. 3 peace in Vietnam are not for
peace In Miami Beach."
WHERELaw Officers Round Up Protesters Outside Fence Gutu•tling; l)rnc to (
AT LEAST 33 persons in•
'lTD FIND IT jured during the street chaos
received hospital treatment. • ' McGovern-Daley T e
range than 100 others who Cordial
Uausa�eats II Nwescga lit ranged from protester to ei-
Mime■ 7t Meaty Dig deny bystanders had minor
etasiaea 200 MMw4 In wounds bandaged and eyes •
Baines DE Latta Mews 180 treated at mobile medical ar Na+u wwii servkes press conference at Sherman nary, former President Lyn- In World Var II. McGosern,
Orissrertt '2E tiring Today it units for the effects of gas. CHICAGO — The Demo- House,headquarters for Da- don B. Johnson, at the LBJ who flew a B24 bomber over
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:aerials
I80 Wrles 1� After hours of sporadic sal• cratic presidential nominee ley's organization. Ranch. McGovern and his Europe.said:"The difference,
:aer is EA peps, IDA who started out with so McGovern.for his part,de- staff were pleased with aha the overhwelming differtaice.
t B EE ►prat lit Blanca trroughout the mid- many people mad at him scribed a private luncheon result on both occasions. was that this time our sol-
Flirncld II Dans It Beach area, the rea second found another importantBiers and our sailors and our
IIs Mars ISO "NIP"' I11 with Daley as "e most roe• But earlier Wednesday,the
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Fietors regrouped for a secondairmen and our Manors were
Opaen IID TY-Rills 7t march on the Doral that friend Wednesday — Mayor dial and constructive talk." Democratic candidate en• fighting an unnecessary •
Rallis EE NuIMr •
!A ended with the mass arrest Richard J.Daley of Chicago. countered a polite but chilly ..
of about 250 sit-in protesters. The powerful political boss DALEY PROMISED P arty reception from the national war.
Today's Chuckle With the 224 arrests made of Cook County consented to unity and predicted:"Illinois convention of the American GIVEN THE tightly held
• during 1 uesday protests, the appear In a public display of will be in the Democratic col Legion, where he wore his operational plans of Daley's
• When In charge. Pon- total surpassed the 680 dur• amity after weeks of stub• umn for the entire ticket m own blue legion cap and eau- Democratic organization. no
bornly• keeping at arm's November." merateil his own strongly one could say that the may. •
der. When In trouble, Ing the violent 1968 Chicago len h from Sen.George Mc. R P
delegate.When In doubt, convention.But most of the Gogtrn 6 - The South Dakota senxtnr held views s ainst the war in oris thee statrnu•nts of •
mumble !'hen the Miami charges were minor, acted out a similar ritual In Vietnam— anathema to the unity indicate that his ward •
• whole problem refer a co and large numbers of demon• "We're happy to hear from texas"Tuesday when he and legionnaires,who mostly lis- leaders and precinct o+ptaui► •
strators adhered to their non• the next president of the Unit• hos running mate. Sargent lcneol in .sdMce, will make a fulbhe.nlrA of•
ordirutting committee for ed States."themayor said as Shriven. had lunch with an. Recalling the pride and pa- fort to turn out votes fur Mc-
review. Tutt)to Page 28A Col.I he introduced McGovern to a other former political adver- triotism of men who served Govern in November. •
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211-A THE MIAMI HERALD Thurs.,Aug.24,1972 • Autos,
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IProtesters Atta k: t I
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Protesters, reporters and •
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bystanders suffered from the To r
gas, begging for water for • •I ' •.i ILA t L 1 - �'
violence pledges throughout their eyes. J f tic,et•f" s •
;the night Reports mounted of India-
rnminate tear gassing and , {'('
Five hundred demonstra• roughness by police. - • . '4.-. "'�`< .
tors remained encamped in
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their Flamingo Park sancta- IN THE first Collins Ave. ,s ,
ary. Two hundred anti-war nue demonstration, troops y t �` •
veterans broke camp before brought•van to 18th Street W. �; µsl,"•"^ -
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nighttall,hound for a Gaines- to arrest two demonstrators. .}; \ .. ,TA`4„
•s•ille demonstration. Rushed by protesters, they l lay.. 1 • sf _ 4
fought hark with hilly clubs, /. •1 .\ 1 -r - 1
Hundreds flattening! protesters flattening Dick Hanson and !• , (•
erected a yard•high sandbag Nick Harrington. ' "� l 's • ,
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•wall in front of Convention Herald reporter Roberto ";l • ' A N
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Hall to dramatize allegations Fabricio watched as troopers
that the U.S. deliberatelyleverage0 4 • -t•'a j r, 1 a�� . �'
used two clubs for 1 1 r
bombed North Vietnamese to hoist each youth off the a •'l7�1 I
dikes. Their outrage re- ground by the neck and carry t ,s/,
'maimed symbolic, N.• • • ::/z:..i,
' rDuring scenes of vandal• them to the van.Palm Beach Post photogra. -1,Ism nn Collins Airlwr, the b /I' / •
her John Miller tried to takerearguanl\'iemxm Veterans r rAgainst the War worked to pictures of the half-strangled `S. , as" /'
unsnarl traffic,hauling news- youths. Hr was clubbed •,is 11, ,}.
racks and trash barricades across the hands. He picked �w1 , -. ± ',is 1 {` +
out of the streets. up his camera and fled. riii +, $' ' '0
Seventeen other newsmen ' 'I s'.i ` • ' •a s.:. j .
OFFICIALS marshalled were ordered off Washington t I ► • ....
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2.000 lawmen against the Avenue under threat of Sr. I.:i4.'ii, i'
demonstrators. but 5,500 rest while President Nixon li
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riot•trained National Guards- was accepting the Republi• *, `I+S sr
men. paratroopers and Ma• can renomination inside ' ' i'' •,+ '
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cines remained in their hoc- Convention Hall. ) ss. s .� '.'
rowed barracks, ready but The captain, whose name. pt,' i' '4 •-•.
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unneeded. plate could not he read, or- •; ••3 ,
dead everyone oft, streets, - , •C'' "�.
Angered by what they he. ;,berate almost deserted he- `�' t " ' •
lieved a police betrayal. pro. cause of the lingering gas. "I ;r ' ' ti 7l•"^ l• •
test leaders abandoned their •_A: ,kip 'i••
mean everybody." he yelled. -!.t
sit-in strategy late Wednes- '' •
R. "I want n•erybaly Out of 1••',
day afternoon and bypassed - . , r..- % 1
Ilio men I pial want putt iii ♦' 1
licehad unl Hall. %d fe pi.- disappear." ii•y / -.lc:.~•,a►. ., v �.
lice had bamcaded safe-con- . ase•f,, •
duct corridors for arriving 'r.'yy r
THE TEAR gas forced Re. er `
delegates with derelict buses publican officials to shut off
towed in overnight. •
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air conditioning in the mas- _ .M•
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demonstrators had silo complex. Medical ata• •
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halo willing to face mass Cr- tions were filled with weep- . ,•t•- a '�' ,
rests if they could dramatise ins patients. , .
their protest by barring Re- The most serious casualty ~1 - .'r«'t•`t• � ? • ''`
publican delegates from a of the night was Metro Mo- ,
Convention Hail surrounded torcycle Officer William °
by Guardsmen and soldiers. Hartmann, who was struck ` '/r^r '
The mass arrests ac hier,,A by a lead pipe and knocked ••'�� - '
off his cycle at 20th and °+ a• • ,
neither goal. !!�� $ i' / t
James streets. His shoulder ? 's,
Republicans wrie cursed was broken. Florida▪ d shoved as they entered, Three demonstrators were oHighway Patrolmen Use a Billy Club for Leverage ant
their limousines pummeled es
by fists and sticks.Some del- injured when run down by a
✓atites entered the hall red• Miami Beach Yellow cab and
eyed from tear gas,hut there two private limousines In Road. victnns of the police Collins Avenueo
denustra- The major protest hand, The anti-war veterans rc' IH •
were no reports of any Aele• separate incidents. One girl has barricades near ('unveil- lion. numbers swollen by indepen• moved the sawhorses, news- Fahn •
gates being denied entry. suffered a broken ankle. tion Hall. About 150 saw the first dent street groups,rampaged paper racks and cutler trash dnwr
Of approximately 3.000 Small, independent close pidice-eu•orteit delegates ar- up Collins Avenue, overturn- from the street. son a
THE FIRST six delegates total youths who had gather- rising at 6.10 p.m.near 18th ing trash bins, ripping dis• But ahead of them. one watt)
arR hers of demonstrators rgtors ad- tributor caps Irons stalled 1"
ed in Miami Beach to protest Street and Washington and r lou of demonstrators sw-
held ad oaf 6:1a p.m. Eachcallinghato prearsa at major
plans group
a policeman's hand as Nixon's re-nomination,an es- for sit-ins major In• sprinted toward them. autos and slashing tires. rounded a Cadillac and cut peck i
they raced to the main en• timaled 1.000 took part in tersections to bar arriving Six delegates,each holding Most traffic was stopped off a tire valve stem As the the r
trance near 18th Street and the evenings disordered ac• delegates. a policeman's hand,ran with In the streets. woman driver pulled away, the vt •
Washington. 150 shouting lions, according to George their 18-man escort. the ore began to sink. Pal
protesters in pursuit. Rlafencks,Washington, D.C. But at Meridian Avenue BUT SOME motorists de-
liberately At the corner of 22nd phi
r civil defense chief. and Dade Boulevard,project-
-Bloodsuckers! \1'armnt attempted to run Street,two Gray Iinr sight. take
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,Rloiddemonstrators e m n n s t rrs! 1a tlo r s Roderirks was present as a ed ane of a massive act of Ren." the Armnnslanon over the prptrslers, accord• seeing blues were disabled was
convention advisor to Dade civil disobedience.a network yelled. Ing to witnesses, both on when marchers opened t h a hand•
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screamed. They chased the delegates Collins Avenue and else- He i
The police cordon at the County Manager Ray Goode tele""" crew sal quietly engine compartments and cutp' •
and alone in foldingchairs. to (late S hear 18th and where. hose lines.The tires of mole Re •
gate parted for an Instant to Members of most of the Washington. 1
let the rsu+rt and six Arle- protest groups camped at The main body of pones,
At 710 p.m,a callow Cab cars were slashed. I o w.
The police cordon at the
hers,estimated at 500 strung, raced west on 17th Street to- spray.
gates enter, wheeled around Flamingo Park were in- parted for au instant to p y'
s.nbstd began hiking east to Collins galeward Convention Hall, veer- MASS arrests began short• broke •
and gassed the protesters, Avenue and then north at let the escort and delegates ingcrazilythrough the street
who scattered. in,then wheeled around and R I)•after 6 p m., as the front dump
TIIE FIRST independent 5.10 pini.hound for the Fon- as hundreds of Aemonstra• of the march reached 31st could •
Ce firedrs of irritating gas I'r tamehleau Hotel at 4•-i I Col- sprayed Mace at the proles• tors screamed and ran. Street and Collins. Florida
were indiscriminately, bands straggled from Flamm- hers,who scattered. ON
creating a heavy pall over go Park after 4-30 p m to 1106• The cab struck one youth Highway Patrolmen,aided by 21st a •
the convention complex. roam aimlessly around Con- Herald reporter John HERALD reporter Sarah with a thud,hurling him to a other police, moved in and watch
which was swollen byas re- vention Hall Camp,walking with the Stu- began making the arrests_ taking
R denIS for a Democratic Sorb Elder and WVCG
over the Lincoln Road The immediate area of the Tom Lague wer werreporter gutter.e among The driver finally slopped Poet Allen Ginsberg was delega
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etc, describedtheir moo
d: in one of 80 capturedthe Cente
Mall and Washington Ave• 50-acre complex remainedthose sprayed. as hues Ai- rgrd delegates
nue to the cast.drifting hack relatively quirt despite the "They're wound up tight" Delegate traffic, continued first foray. A 12-foot rented nut o •
6 at the southern entrance Pm wagon on an lithium.titre, A ettei ce spreading u• the Srum I lit gumqus sw ailed to „,0„ down rine Tree u.-a. clurged mu, the alter,, van used as a paddy R tire.
Chief romeranrr said he 111.1 tiu•.'st u+ pickets of chaos on all Drive, Dade Boulevard and seized hint and blockedpro-o- rccunuoalnted Jll pnsunrn,
realized that Sm11e of the tear Patches of stalled motor- sides 01 the convention con,- the avenues on both sides of including Jeff Nighthyrd, a Hen
testers. Youth International Party cn• delega
gassing had been excessive lata spread at first from Col- plea, usually blocks away. Convention Hall 11nst
Protesters linked arms and ordinator "If
and had ordered a halt to it. has Avenue west to Alton before merging east with the moved through unimpeded. •
surrounded the victim. 1 hey ning I
ureame(i: "Get an ambo- The arrests came shortly people
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Florida I ligh‘h'av Patrolmen Use a Hilly Club for L erase and Subdue a l'rotester
, Road. vii hos of the police roll1 ns .-.r•nr• armor's l he nu,jor :widest hand. The ant,wear *details re IIFRAI.P reporter Rolls ta, TIIF DAY had begun with
bus ham,mil, near (nn..o1 thus, nuudx•rs swnllrr ha ntdrpen n.o.r•d nim s.oahinsrs• news I.Ibu.lit said the kns'ked. relative quiet and a few sign.
tion Ilan At I..n saw lb.• lir,/ dent street groom,r.nolurgral P.gx•r r.,,ks and ,ether trash .1..s,,,1 11,„err hark 11.111. Of u•aunurg nnrnl.rlry ..n
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• \rml, independent rtes- pit..r.......i•idel.g.re•sar up(tollinsAinsAvenue,
g,loeliuh, fr.•mthesu..•I Net:lydNickuawprr,uii Ile MknntIleash '
ter, of demonstrators aft '' • '•at I lit p rn ur:,r Isth g 11 k Rul ahead of rtmn, nor \Loy id the I,Slb Its mg in
Slre•t and W...hurpol and tnhutor raps film. Malted own of do.
sou. 155,1 corns (or Iecer.rgr Io
hoed In prearranged plans auo.s and slashing•tires 1' I+ n k u r h of Ihr soW hs hs. I lennngo Park 55,1,1.•pa.loin;
ralhug Ino wt•lm al malar m- spooled h.w:ud Uu•n+ A rowalyd a l'addlar and nn I'`• p'•' IIIIt lents and trading nu•,
Most traffic wan slapped Mfr lire erne ai.•.n AS the Ihr neck and carry them In Y
terse,lions to bar arnvmg Six delegates,each hoidmgpM' the von. sages on a baseball icon•• ,
delegates. a policeman'.hand.ran with in the streets. woman rinser pulled away, board ottenng and seeking '
their 16 man escort. the we began In sink Palm Remit Post phoo.gra- Ides ninth •
Rut at Meridian Avenue RUT SOME mntort.ts de-
At the .unnrr m! :nA poser John Miller. trying to
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aro!bade Boole.aril.propert. I.utid urkers' War:non Ilberately attempted to run street,two I:r,u I roe ,oct+t- take I I res of the went.. sirs nal early incidents '
, ed site of a n:atiise act of ger'.''• the derninstartnrs met. the prmrsters, accord• seeing buses wine d.sahle,I ..as cluhhed acro., the showed a resumption of pie •
• end durtnednence,a network )'PIIeA. Ing to witnesses, both •,n when marchers opened the AM...,. cloppulg his ,mtera con.cotton daily Iife re
Idle.rsnnn .Tow sat quietly •1'hry I bawd the delegates Collins Menne and else. engine c ',affluents and cut lie pt.ke.l it up,and fled Illallhd.11 least N dill'aN'.11
and alone in folding chaos m I.me 5 near !Sift and where. hose Imes the tires of some Reporter .lac llueder fol. •
1 he main hind,: of pante.• \i achlnL'Iom .At'IR p m i t ellnw •('ah or.as err.sl.nhed I o w•e d one group et it Putt.e art.'.tiA \.t:.
Iris,estimated at 5110 Strong, The parse cordon al the commander Mutt Koeld• 37, '
ta.ed west on 1"th Street to. sprayed paint on h 1s.•<,
began liking .'est to ('illms gate parted for an Inst'III, In Nand l(nsention Hall, seer MASS an a•,t+Megan shorn broke bottles in the road and nut.tile (•ille
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A suite and then north at Irl the ..semen and dr tort mg,r,o edc through Ihr morel I eller ii p nit, ,r, the hint I npe,l aha lee rr garh,rge d I,cplasing a sw•u.l ika III vu..
• lit p m.humul fon the Fun r.,then wSmled around and as huudre.is of demonslra• of the march reached 31st could find
tannin of.til•ordinances
rarnehleau Il.t.I at 4.1.11 Cob %Proved Matr at theInnes' tors s.re•,n,,4 and ranstreet all I ('nlhns Ilnroda
lint ter.•who scauetr.: 16•hN'ay I'atrnlntrn .ideal by ON f1/1h streetsINS M•Iw,Iereim • A Iwi.day.uunler•aii
'111, rah struck unit unnh k _l'Isl and 2.1th .\larder 5euuon. mss:ligation of
Ilrrald reporter John IIF:RAID nrpnrr•r Sarah with a thud,hurting h1m to a tither polite, rocs r,l it and watched M1 attack on .r bus P,esrd,•n1 Nixon.whit h heard •
(loop.walking wnh the situ- I 'lie unit U•\'C1. repuuter gulo•f began making the alI t•sn laking the South ('.minor such w nnessrs as actress
dams Iona ll•nuxTAuc tie..I Pout Allen (iutsh,Ig w•e, del.• atton Ii•he ('.urrnlmn Jane I undo. Rlack Panther
1 I...Me Were g 'I h, drr..v finally stopped g
rt.. ilea riM•A their 111155551 nue of 511 said tired in Ir• Center Someone let On, air chief Robby Seale and lawyer '
1 throe.price.! .s husrs discharged delegates
i. "1 lie. wound up tight" Ilr�rgat(• vaffu :neon•w foil tun or A I:dor rented out of the hue' right front William Kumaler, delivered
+ 1 at the southern entrance Po- van lied ataadds' wagon
Srl.I\Ilk groups .w riled to rimy.. down Pine free n.e charged roto the street.
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,n pit.kers of chaos on all brise, Dade Roulevar.! and sell/ell hen and blocked pro• a•cu.,,,I, ra•d .1!n pn.onr n.
ad ,.d Ino ,ons error.one OW a.rnu.•.un both ildr< of mit luIlurg teff \nhtAv.l .t Ilenrc\Geek s.an ahn n.ur "\1'i' fend Richard \I.
learn loath International fart.,o delegate,talked to Macer, basun,like the \a❑ leaders
• poem. ...oath hoicks aw:n. t,a..ronin Hull Mils! Protesters linked arms and mann nor "If they think thrs•re ss di of l.rrm.uls,guilty of.nines
n Ia•lu re melgung east with the nunrii through unimpeded „uanmded rite ucuo Ihr, nog friends and influencing agantsl humanity '
'Ihr allrsls .a^n• shorn. Ir they're sally nu.l.rk
..reamed "Get an ambit- peep
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after seaeral hun.hed mann en." \1'r.•ks caul ,4nul6ey. • R. •1 pm. :K hour.
�.� ,its•. .a ailing Ihrm.rh its ...
.1.•1.•gale..01,,,rnik auum•,h after 1uesdieV•i mast arrests
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hi}, ser what kind of people n•.•ma-,< of the Vr.a Ion was taking ph'turrx ill Ili.• of':d had begun,all of the