Media Coverage: 1997 Oregon Rainbow Gathering

Chill Over the Rainbow: A supringly positive article wondering why the Feds bother to have so much law enforecment at Gatherings, where none is needed.
Agency mobilizing to handle Rainbow event: This is mostly about the Forest Service setting up their rather over-staffed survalliance group of 90 people!
SF Chronicle: A rather bizzare "stuck in the sixties" view of the gathering.
Major influx of 'Rainbows' foreseen: An article from Arcada, CA talking about the influx of people going to the Oregon Gathering, with a discussion of the problems of local police harrasing the Rainbows.
Oregon town struggles with love generation remnants: An article from the earlier part of the gathering in mid June.
Over 10,000 Hippies Gather in Orgeon to Pray for World Peace: A later API wire article written during the height of the gathering,
Rainbows Repairs restores meadow: This is an interesting article that came out a year after the Oregon gathering when the Forest Service rangers from the previous year, along with some media visited the site to see how it had regrown.

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