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...drove the protesters from the convention-center area with barrage after barrage of CS gas, whereupon the protesters marched peaceably back toward the beachfront hotels that were serving as Republican headquarters. By the end of the evening, the 4,000 had shrunk to 400 weary protesters sitting outside the Doral Hotel singing "All we are saying is give peace a chance," and waiting for the inevitable arrests (which went over 1,000 for the week...
...talk was not cheap, neither was secrecy. To shield its doings from unauthorized eyes, the Committee for the Re-Election of the President spent heavily (it will not say how much) to rent paper shredders and to surround its headquarters at the Doral Hotel with security guards. Wackenhutt Corp., which supplied security personnel, had to hire about 250 extra guards at $2.25 to $2.75 an hour for each gathering...
...July transcends political beliefs--it goes beyond a platform for or against forced busing, beyond immediate withdrawal from Indochina, beyond tax structures--even though those beliefs are the foundation of November's choice. The contrast lies too in the Democrats' open platform hearings; in the uncordoned lobby of the Doral Hotel; and, in the movement of candidates and their staffs hustling for delegate votes and bargaining power. Most clearly, it lies in the composition and altitude of delegations...
...Doral Hotel, guarded like a fortress by Secret Servicemen last month, was McGovern headquarters in July. For the presence of the White House staff in August--not the President, the Vice President, nor their families--Doral guests and employees were required to wear identification badges at all times, even when sunning beside the hotel's private pool. For Bob Haideman and Herb Klein and Clark MacGregor, paper shredders were installed at the Doral, and the hotel lobby was closed to conventioneers. It was the same lobby where in July, anyone could come and go, anyone could hitch a ride...
Despite an utter lack of suspense, delegates in the hall kept close tallies of the vote, as did Eleanor McGovern, who appeared at the convention center to savor the moment. McGovern stayed at the Doral, tracking the ballots, fiddling with the television dial. "Illinois will put us over," said Yancey Martin, McGovern's black director of minorities. It was a small irony that McGovern soared over his required 1,509 with the Illinois delegation that he had rather reluctantly claimed from Richard Daley. In the hall, a brief, almost polite pandemonium broke out and then subsided. McGovern smiled...