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Students Cause Disturbances (N.Z.P. A. -Reuter—Copyright) HOLLYWOOD (Florida), March 28. The 30,000 students who invaded nearby Fort Lauderdale for the Easter holiday turned it into “a twentieth-century Sodom and Gomorrah,” the Florida State Attorney, Mr Roger Harper, said today. Addressing a local club, he said the youths, about 300 of whom were arrested in the last week, were a “despicable class of tourists.” “They plundered commercial vehicles, destroyed public property, taunted and abused the police, urinated in public, stole and ruined public property, explored illicit sex on the beach, • dressed and conducted themselves salaciously and lewdly, and overtaxed the city’s courts and gaols,” he said.
Mr Harper added that the students should be told they were no longer welcome.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31330, 29 March 1967, Page 13
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