Miami Beach Bars Protester Campsites
From Wire Reports
MIAMI BEACH Fearing violence, City Council yesterday voted not to provide campsites for the tens of thousands of protesters expected here for this summer's national political conventions.
The 22-hour meeting was marked by bitter exchanges. After the vote,
Patrick Small of New York,
a
self-proclaimed Zippie and member of the Underground Press Syndicate, tried to throw a pumpkin pie, splattering Councilman Harold Rosen, who hit him in the belly. Another council member, who voted for the campsites, got pumpkin in his hair.
Members of the losse alliance of youth, antiwar,
QUICKLY ZIPPERED
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Miami Beach plainclothesman holds Zippie spokesman Patrick Small who created a disturbance at a City Council session.
AP Wirephoto
homosexual and feminist liberation groups that plan demonstrations here quickly ly disclaimed any comection with the attack and said they might oust the Zippies a splinter faction of the Youth International Party or Yippies-from their grouping.
The council agreed to set aside public areas as staging grounds for demonstrators and National Guard troops but voted 5-2 against campsites recommended by Gov. Reubin Askew, his Task Force on Community Affairs, and Miami Beach Mayor Chuck Hall.
All had urged the council "not to make the same mistake as Chicago,” which denied facilities to demonstrators during the violencewracked Democratic convention of 1968.
Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman, two of the Chica-
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go 7 convicted on charge stemming from violence in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, were in the audience but for the most part were quiet.