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...that of the Israelis. Clearly, some new assertiveness began crystallizing among the Indians in the 1960s, when they came under the sway of the same influences that had aroused many other minorities into bristling self-awareness. Suddenly, Indians demanded attention in a sequence of media dramatics-the occupation of Alcatraz (1969), the trashing of the Bureau of Indian Affairs headquarters (1972), the new confrontation at Wounded Knee (1973). As it turned out, these episodes proved to be mere diversions compared with a fundamental new strategy that was taking shape unnoticed. That strategy is the ongoing legal offensive-part...
...decades-except possibly Director Frankenheimer's skill at building action sequences like the foul-up of the Super Bowl circus, which is the climax of Black Sunday. He has always been at his best when a script presents large technical challenges: the tight spaces of Birdman of Alcatraz, the wild railroad chase in The Train, the assassination attempt at a political convention in The Manchurian Candidate, to name the best of them all. Here he has more and perhaps richer elements than ever to play with...
...Force were unadulterated vehicles for themes like "might makes right" and "violence is a great deterrent to crime." The Enforcer, however, can be interpreted as leading to a different conclusion. The revolutionaries, after kidnapping the Mayor of San Francisco and demanding ransom, have holed up in--you guessed it--Alcatraz. Harry and partner arrive, and after an extended gunfight and hide-and-seek game the only survivors are Harry and the Mayor, a pompous, self-serving fool. As he dusts himself off after his brushes with death, the Mayor promises Harry that "There will be a letter of commendation...
...Alcatraz, that erstwhile bastion of non-liberty, Independence Day will be celebrated with an RWB fireworks display...
TIME'S report on crime [June 30] reminded me of the day a number of years ago when I went over to Alcatraz prison to visit my client Mickey Cohen. I asked Warden Johnson what program he had for rehabilitating these toughest of all convicts. He replied: "We don't rehabilitate; we just warehouse...