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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
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first lady in New York.
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probably will spend,
at Camp David, the prei
retreat in Maryland’s'
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