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Those who manage to escape could be models for Goya's Disasters of War. The lucky ones get into already overfilled tent camps that reek of caustic soda disinfectant and human excrement, and are ankle deep in filthy water from the first monsoons. Most huddle under trees or bushes trying to avoid the heavy rains. Some find cramped quarters on the verandas of now closed schoolhouses. Others near Calcutta have found large open drainpipes to live in. Around them is always the stench of garbage, polluted water, sickness and death...
Predictably, the carnival atmosphere diminished somewhat. The Army set up a crude tent hospital, and a prison doctor announced that all prescriptions for drugs, including methadone, would be filled. One fellow screamed in mock withdrawal pain: "Give me cannabis, give me cannabis, I can't live without it!" Some women wandered into the tent asking for birth control pills (the medics had none...
...Avenue. When police took them to the detention camp opposite RFK Stadium the couple decided that the end must be near. They proceeded to find a priest inside the camp, were fenced-in area covered by a canvas married, and designated a corner of the sheet as their "honeymoon Tent...
...Please do not disturb." a sign hung carefully on the tent said. However, in the police state imposed here yesterday, the chances for peace and quiet are slim indeed...
...were they pleased as they marched past the smoldering campfires and abandoned tents of what was once Algonquin Peace City. What they found was an indication that there are many more hours of unenviable duty in store for them in the next three days. As one message left on an abandoned tent post in Peace City told them: "Sorry we couldn't oblige you, but we don't dig violence. See you tomorrow. Peace...