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Page 6 • Wednesday, July 28, 1999 N ATION Woodstock’s future questioned Riots at 1999 gathering endanger future of music festival NEW YORK (AP) — The future of Wood- stock may have gone up in the smoke of fires set by rampaging rock fans. The riot that ended the three-day Woodstock ’99 will probably make it difficult for anyone who wants to stage another such music festi val. “Right now you have to ask yourself whether any community would ever allow an other Woodstock,” concert industry analyst Bob Grossweiner said. The weekend’s final act. Red Hot Chili Pep pers, was performing before what was left of the 225,000 music fans at an abandoned mili tary base in Rome, N.Y., when a mob set fire to 12 tractor-trailers, a small bus and several portable toilets. Bottles were hurled at police and vendor booths destroyed before the site was brought under control early Monday. Five people, including two state troopers, were injured, and seven people were arrested. It was the second Woodstock of the 1990s modeled after the original 1969 concert, known for its memorable music and counterculture vibes of peace and love. The rain-drenched Woodstock of 1994 is best remembered for its mud. After the ugly ending to Woodstock ’99, pro moters were not talking yesterday about what this meant for their plan to repeat Woodstock every five years. “I saw a lot of young kids in there, people in high school,” Chris Connelly, who covered the event for MTV, said. “You have to wonder if parents are going to be very concerned about letting their kids go to things like this.” “Right now you have to ask yourself whether any community would ever allow another Woodstock” — Bob Grossweiner Concert industry analyst The melee will be remembered by any city that is considering allowing music festivals, said James Griffis, town supervisor of Sauger- ties, N.Y. The town was the location of Wood- stock five years ago and unsuccessfully tried for it again this year. He would not say if there is going to be a third try. “It’s not going to make it any easier, that’s for sure,” Griffis said. “Communities that will want to host it, if there is another one in five years, are going to be a lot more cautious.” A state senator said yesterday she will pro pose legislation giving the state final say over any such mass gatherings. “I think it’s going to be pretty hard for (pro moters) to find a community that will accept things on the terms they dictated this time,” Sen. Nancy Larraine Hoffmann, a Syracuse Re publican, said. Rock festivals that last several days are al ready a rarity in the United States, in part be cause promoters lost money on the first two Woodstocks. Authorities were unable to explain what trig gered the melee, but there was no shortage of theories: hot weather unrelieved by rain, dis satisfaction caused by filthy grounds and high food prices or simple lawlessness propelled by peer pressure. Woodstock’s most popular artists — Limp Bizkit, Korn, Kid Rock and Rage Against the Machine — specialize in an aggressive combi nation of rock and rap that some say encour ages aggressive behavior. “Kids like this are basically nonviolent un less somebody instigated them,” Grossweiner said. “And the instigation came from the stage.” Connelly said it is unfair to blame the mu sic, since the Red Hot Chili Peppers are not the type of band to incite a riot. But he said certain musicians like Limp Bizkit singer Fred Durst should be questioned about whether their on stage behavior encouraged violence. anti-pot fun TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida may start testing a fungus that could kill marijuana plants — a move that environmentalists say could ultimately backfire if the fungus mutates and attacks crops like tomatoes and corn. Two state agencies have given approval for the tests to be con ducted in a quarantine lab on the fungus Fusarium oxysporurn, a bioherbicide designed to destroy plants like marijuana, 55,000 plants of which were destroyed in the state last year. Florida’s anti-drug czar said yesterday that nothing would happen anytime soon. “I think we would be years away from using this,” James Mc Donough, director of the state Of fice of Drug Control, said. McDonough said he has not made any recommendations to Gov. Jeb Bush about ttifH dusting suspected aref ^ pot-eating fungus. ■ Environmentalists are concerned about (k Mother Nature. Florida Department ronmental Protections! David Struhs has wametf troducing the fungus into could cause disease Inc eluding tomatoes andcc| Others are worried r fungus could get outoi: like the weed kudzu.aviii ed for soil stabilization': grown like wild in South “We tend to manipni environment sometime these biological intr David Gluckman, 1 the Florida Wildlife I said. "We’re payingthep that now.” ups Study: Internet info not protected Clinton plans vacati New York, Martha’s WASHINGTON (AP) — Private information unwittingly released by Internet users is not protected under federal guidelines because few Websites adhere to them, ac cording to a study released yes terday. Based on previous reports on In ternet users and Websites, the Cen ter for Democracy and Technology said Congress should pass legisla tion to force compliance with guidelines issued by the Federal Thade Commission. The lack of privacy protection on the Internet contributes to a per vasive “unease that someone’s watching you,” the center’s coun sel, Deirdre Mulligan, told the Sen ate Commerce Committee. “Internet privacy on the Internet should be the rule rather than the exception,” she said. “Any regulation imposed today may be ineffective in protecting consumers tomorrow A -JOHN MCCAIN U.S. SENATOR To that end, Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., chair of Commerce’s communications subcommittee, has introduced legislation to re quire Website operators to post privacy policies on their pages and allow consumers to direct those operators not to share their private information. But Commerce Committee Chair John McCain, R-Ariz., has sided with the FTC, refusing to move forward with legislation un til it becomes clearer whether pri vate industries on the Web can po lice themselves. That stance virtually kills Burns’ bill. “The Internet changes daily, if not hourly. Any regulation im posed today may be ineffective in protecting consumers tomorrow,” McCain said in a statement. But, he warned, “the industry should not be misled into thinking that these results represent some type of pass on future legislation.” McCain noted that a study by Georgetown University found that 94 percent of the most frequently used 100 Websites have privacy disclosure, as do two-thirds of ran domly visited sites. But Mulligan and Marc Roten- berg, director of the Electronic Pri vacy Information Center, told law makers that many of those disclosures do nothing else — such as explain how a consumer might refuse to allow his or her informa tion to be sold or shared. “Privacy policy is not the same as privacy protection,” Rotenberg told the panel. If Congress does not provide better enforcement and clearer guidelines, consumers will be faced with a choice to “ei ther use the Internet and give up their privacy or stay off the Net,” he said. WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi dent Clinton will split a 16-day Au gust vacation between Martha’s Vineyard and New York, where his wife, Hillary, is expected to seek a Senate seat. Visiting the Massachusetts is land of Martha’s Vineyard for the fifth straight sum mer, the Clintons once again will be staying at the 20- acre compound owned by Boston businessman Richard Friedman on Oyster Pond. They will be there Aug. 19-28, press spokesperson Joe Lockhart said yesterday. On Aug. 28, they will switch to the Hamptons on Long Island for Vineyard amoni a weekend series of events staged by the Dei National Committee. After that, the Clinte spend Aug. 30 to Sep;. Skaneateles, a quiet reson 7,500 people on Skaneat just southwest of SyraoJ once was a stopontheCi era Underground Railto ferried slaves north to In The Clintons will stayattf | Texas A&M Itment of wo i CLINTON side home of Thomas Me’ 1 a real estate developer. 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