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.. . I ? ' b b Naval Training Station near thc Sports Arena or on Fiesta Island in Mission Bay. attacked on all sides. Swamp" where police could isolate them conveniently. from the conven- tion, as there is only a single access road. The F i e s t a Island (450 acres) suggestion is alrcady being Would-be protesters call the area a "Suicidc .A- e . , 1 L- :'-e/<- -%%,.E., * .-*.p-. 7 -8 - An underground newspaper, the Doorl repgrted that the San Diego police have requested that a l l hotel and motcl managers in the area notify ihcrn if atiy groups which are not aIfiliated .with the Republican. P a r t y book reservations. Reportedly, the police department has pro- . vided hotel m a n a g e r s with information about radical groups prominent in C h i w g o at the 1968 D c m o c r a t t Convention and in some cases have asked the managers to hold theoresetvation requests until the groups' credentials can be checked out. 72.i' S'-Yitf ,-c 7 e . A4+f,v e The San Dicgo Convention Coalition consisting of 20 groups of activists including students, professors, antiwar and women's libera- tion organizations, and representatives of the legal and medical profes- sions, recently announced that " J e r r y Rubin and tlrc other l e a d e r s of the Youth International P a r t y will i t k e p t the SDCC's leadership in or- ganizing convention demonstrations that will be m a s s i v e , legal, non- violent and dignified. I' The Vietnam Veterans Against the War, an organization that is becoming increasingly morc radical. has promised that San Diego will be witness to massive broqb-based dcmonslrations .' 4) . against the w a r during tlie COP Convention. . *' ' ' ' "' 2' . - . ; .* : .?' ' -< Tbe San Diego Convention Coalition, a s previously reported, held a Western Regional Conference on March 17. attending tlie conference werc young adult Caucasians in their late teens o r e a r l y twenties. from California, Oregon,, Washington, and a t leas! eight othcr s t a t e s w e s t of the Mississippi River as well as f r o m the District of Columbia. The confcrence was disorganized and little was accomplished other than the announcemcnt of two additional regional confcrcnces prior to the Republican Convention. On M a r c h 25 Lha San F r a n c i s c o Bay A r c a Confcrcncc was held A t Derkelcy, California (no reports in as yet) and a n interim regional confcrcnce is scheduled for San Diego on May 13. The 340 delegates Reportedly, delegates w e r e in attendance T h e d c l c g a t e s at Santa B a r b a r a adopted the final d r a f t as f ollows : $. 47- ,A ' G - 5 YCl- ' ~ ~ ~ l / G ? ~ /.3 .. 1. Parti'cipants itr3DCC cannot initiate violcncc; howcvcr, nonviolent civil disobedience . . is acceptable and it will be . i-fii7 ,'A 5-h +j.VC . . 2