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...many more massacres like Attica must occur before reasonable Americans demand better solutions to such problems...
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...Convicts involved in the Attica revolt should be uncompromisingly punished. An investigation should be made of the Black Panthers and William Kunstler regarding the extent to which they abetted the whole ugly affair...
...Having been inside Sing Sing and other penal institutions (as an inspecting grand juror), I advise deliberation in assessing the Attica riot. Commissioner of Correction Russell Oswald made the only possible rational decision. He was facing primitive hysteria, obviously inflamed by subversives. He gave the same order that any field commander facing a public enemy in battle would have given...
...cables. Heavy September rains in the New York area drowned out most of our private teleprinter lines. Sometimes the gap is bridged by switching to conventional telegraph ("overheading," in our argot). On those rare occasions when all lines fail, we fall back on manpower. The communications crush during the Attica prison riot got so bad at one point that some material for last week's cover story had to be flown in from Buffalo by courier...