Word: atticas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After Rockefeller was excused, 22 witnesses got their chance to air their views on his nomination. Chief among them was Angela Davis, the black radical, who attacked Rockefeller for having permitted "one of the most wanton massacres in the history of the United States" at New York's Attica prison in 1971 during a revolt in which 32 prisoners and eleven hostages died. Rockefeller had told the Senators that while he deeply regretted the bloodshed, he still felt justified in having sent in the police to try to rescue the hostages. Said Rocky: "I do not believe in negotiating...
...trials of 58 Attica prisoners who allegedly took part in the uprising began last week in Buffalo. There are nearly 1,400 charges, ranging from sodomy to murder. No guards or policemen have been indicted...
...comparatively slight points like the number of non-communists--innocent people--falsely described as communists--guilty people. His ability to distinguish what matters most ends up at about the level of Linda Charlton, whose coverage of Rockefeller's confirmation hearings in The Times lumps together questions about the Attica killings and Rockefeller's remarriage...
...began condemning "welfare cheaters" and appointed a state inspector to weed out fraud on the relief rolls. He declared war on drug pushers by winning passage of a bill mandating a life sentence for anyone convicted of selling hard drugs. When a revolt broke out among convicts at Attica state prison in 1971, he refused to meet with the rebels as they demanded. When they failed to surrender, he permitted a brutal charge that cost the lives of 29 prisoners and ten guards who were held as hostages. As Watergate unfolded, he never offered a word of criticism of Nixon...
...Justified the Attica massacre on the basis of the prisoners' threat to the "sovereignty" of New York State...