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About 99 million vacationers will visit the 201 U.S. national parks this year. They will bring with them a love of nature and a sense of wonder at the beauty that has been preserved against the onrush of progress. They will also bring with them thousands of cans of spray paint and the lust to desecrate...
...that some members of the department had reacted unprofessionally to the widespread looting. Several policemen walked into a shopping center parking lot at around 11:30 p.m. and systematically smashed the windshields of 14 unoccupied cars with billy clubs, rifle butts and pieces of pipe. They slashed tires and spray-paint-ed LOOTER, THIEF and I AM A CHEAP NO GOOD LOOTER on the vehicles. Claimed Joe Sheely, 26, a resident of the neighborhood: "They were getting a kick out of it." Four Miami police officers were suspended from duty for the vandalism, and Miami Mayor Maurice Ferre declared...
...Adams County Auditor Kim Yerxa estimated that cleaning up Ritzville and the rest of the county will cost $2 million; the annual budget is only twice that sum. To clear Ritzville's streets, Sheriff Snowden directed a fire truck to spray the ash so that a road grader could push it into 3-ft.-high dikes. They, in turn, were shoveled up by road crews. But Snowden predicted that it will be a year before the town is free...
...real thing--in a drainage ditch next to the main gate, while 400 curious picketers watch. Up a little hill they charge, again and again--on the other side at least twice as many cops wait, poking with their sticks, some as long as seven feet, and spraying water from a high pressure hose. In October, at the first occupation attempt, protesters danced and sang in the spray when police turned on the hoses; now, there is only grim determination. "Fall back, Fanshen." "Charge Fanshen," over and over. It seems less than likely that, should they succeed in tearing down...
...jubilant teammates all of whom are extras, bit players in this mini-form who possess an almost subliminal celebrity. "I been living in sports equipment all week," notes one. Later, after jumping into a shower to simulate perspiration, he complains that "on the Coke job, they gave us little spray things-very first-class...