Word: attica
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frankly, I'm more than a little worried that a group like the Attica Brigade may do something violent. The Attica Brigade, you might remember, led the trashing of the Center for International Affairs during the spring of 1972. The Brigade manipulated a group of anti-war demonstrators returning from a Boston rally into an attack on the CFIA--a move which made no political sense. Who knows what they will be up to tonight? Also, the Ford demo could bring a lot of radical activists out of retirement and back into the fray. A former SDS leader...
Also involved in planning the demonstration are the Attica Brigade, the Black Collective, the Harvard-Radcliffe Political Action Group, La Organization, the Organization for Solidarity of Third World Students, and the Radcliffe Women's Organization...
...kind of hero we need is the woman Gene and I met in Boston, or tenant organizers in urban ghettoes or women picketing for equal pay and equal rights under law. A doctor in Roxbury would make a good hero. So would the people raising money for the Attica Brothers. Those who run half-way houses for men and women who otherwise would be in reformatories, prisons, or insane asylums are heroes. So are the Farah strikers and the California farm workers. All these people deal with suffering. All these people open possibilities for the future. They are heroes even...
...prosecution were to adopt such expensive techniques, should they not also be made available to defendants who cannot afford them? Whatever the answers, Schulman and Christie will not soon be idle. Polling for a profile of the area around Buffalo is now well under way for the upcoming Attica trials...
Such hell-for-leather legwork has become almost routine at the Herald, the strongest link in the Knight newspaper chain.* Pulitzer-prizewinning Reporter Gene Miller has the Herald's carte blanche to travel to big stories: the Attica prison insurrection, the Howard Johnson rooftop Shootout in New Orleans, the court-martial of Lieut. William Galley. After nearly three years of digging into Miami operations of the Federal Housing Authority, Herald reporters tracked down the existence of an alleged political slush fund for Florida Senator Edward J. Gurney. Although the paper backed Nixon in 1972, it has kept reporters busy...