Word: atticas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inflicting violence, even violence in the name of the people. No television cameraman was allowed to cover the carpet bombing of Hanoi. No newspaper picture has ever shown the final gasp of an electric chair victim. When 1000 New York State troopers, sheriff's deputies, and prison guards overran Attica State Prison in September 1971, no photographer was permitted to see police bullets cut down 28 prisoners and 9 of their hostages. As a result, Walter B. Dunbar, then New York's deputy commissioner of corrections, was able to tell reporters incorrectly that inmates had slit the hostages' throats...
...centers around a theme. "We play editorial roulette," says Brown. "We try to anticipate what's going to be hot." Sometimes it is uncanny how hot the subject can be. A pamphlet entitled "U.S. Prisons: Schools for Crime" was published in September 1971, just two weeks before the Attica revolt. Other timely topics have been impeachment and women's liberation, as well as lighter subjects like "body language" and the Beatles' lyrics. After describing a bloodless coup in Bolivia, one pamphlet suggested that students analyze the power structure of their schools as if they were going...
...title tilt climaxed Friday and Saturday's competition, organized to raise money for the Attica Legal Defense Fund. The Harvard-Radcliffe Afro-American Cultural Center sponsored the event, which was the brainchild of senior Bob Carrington, a member of the second-place Harvard unit...
Organizers of today's planned demonstrations--including the New American Movement (NAM), La Organization, the Radcliffe Women's Organization, the Attica Brigade and several leftist labor unions--called last week for picketing outside the Harvard Club and the Sheraton. The groups attacked Ford as a representative of the Nixon administration and its policies...
...Attica Brigade has been publicizing Ford's visit at several Boston schools, including Boston University. In past protests, the Brigade has gone beyond picketing--it led the trashing of the Center for International Affairs here in the spring of 1972, and more recently threw eggs at former secretary of defense Melvin R. Laird when he spoke in Providence, R.I., in January...