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Already the communes are in sullen -and occasionally violent-conflict with the Taosenos. The prospect of a spring and summer invasion of new hippies has prompted local residents to form vigilante groups. Besides, an abnormally light winter snowfall ensures water shortages for the summer. Commune crops will be scarce. "If those kids show up here this summer," says one member of a commune in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, "we'll be the straights. We'll throw them...
Smashed Typesetter. Founded in 1968 by a group of antiwar youngsters calling themselves "the People's Commune," the Street Journal's troubles began last October when it ran an article attacking Local Financier C. Arnholt Smith. Essentially a rehash of a Wall Street Journal story, the underground weekly documented how Smith, some relatives and associates made large profits from transactions with two public companies he headed. The earnings of the companies were disappointing for ordinary stockholders...
...November, bullets were fired through the windows of the Street Journal's offices. The glass front door was smashed, and 2,500 copies of the paper (circ. 8,000) were stolen. On Christmas Day, typesetting equipment was smashed and filled with enamel paint. In January, a commune member's car was destroyed by fire-bombing while it was parked outside commune headquarters. Intimidating phone calls became common; some threatened death...
...have the San Diego police exactly ignored the Street Journal. During the past few months, they have searched its offices without a warrant and once arrested 25 of its vendors, mainly for "obstructing the sidewalk." Most such charges were dismissed. On one occasion a patrolman ordered a commune car towed away for violating an ordinance against parking more than 72 hours. He claimed that he had placed a stone on one of the tires, and it had not been dislodged in five days. The charge collapsed after it was shown that the car had been involved in a traffic violation...
Lowell Bergman, 24, a commune leader with a master's degree in philosophy, has initiated meetings with civic leaders, police and the state attorney general's office in an effort to ease relations with the police. He has had little success, even though a report prepared by the city manager affirmed that "a high percentage" of harassment complaints were unfounded. "In a few cases police officers had been provoked," the report added. "For example, a young man waved a Viet Cong flag in the face of a police officer who is a veteran of Viet...