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LIKE all the correspondents in Chicago, the TIME contingent soon learned that covering the Democratic Convention was a demanding task. It required an uncommon agility in crowds, a determined concentration in the confusion of the gallery, and the strength to bounce back from a dose of Mace or tear...
...Viet Nam, the protesters planned a march of 100,000 or more on the amphitheatre. A special 20-page convention issue of Rat, a New York underground newspaper, prescribed the minimal do-it-yourself demonstrator's kit: Vaseline for the skin to protect against Chemical Mace, two pieces of canvas for sleeping in the parks, and at least $200 in bail money...
EMBARKING for the Balaklava of the Chicago stockyards, the foresighted Democratic delegate would ideally-and intelligently-go equipped with: goggles (to protect the eyes from tear gas and Mace), cyclist's crash helmet (from billy clubs, bricks, etc.), flak jacket (from snipers), Vaseline (from Mace), Mace (from rioters), washcloth (from tear gas), bug bomb (to kill the flies that infest the amphitheatre from nearby stockyard dunghills), folding bicycle (there is a cab strike), roller skates (carpet tacks scattered on the streets by the demonstrators may decommission the bike), wire cutters (in case delegate is trapped inside the amphitheatre...
...Angeles and San Francisco last week stopped using the spray. Pittsburgh Director of Public Safety David Craig took the opposite view. In most cities, newspaper reports of the Surgeon General's letter omitted the point that prompt treatment would forestall permanent damage. To Craig, that fact meant that Mace, properly used, was now clearly the safest weapon in his arsenal and "the first feasible nonlethal hand weapon since the caveman invented the wooden club...
...Rose also suggested that a defense is to smear Vaseline on uncovered skin, a tactic used by Columbia University rioters among others. The manufacturers hold that Vaseline traps the droplets of Mace and so is a hindrance rather than a help...