Word: atticas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chaos of the Attica uprising last September, one of the most extraordinary characters to emerge as a convict leader was a scarred but eloquent West Indian named Herbert X. Blyden. Last week his lawyers appeared in a Manhattan federal court for a new round in Blyden's long battle to overturn his 1965 robbery conviction. TIME'S James Willwerth visited him in prison and reported Blyden's tale of his continuing war with...
...Thomas in 1936. His family was "lower middle class," he says, and it came apart when he was three. An aunt raised him, along with 13 of his cousins, and he turned into a troublemaker. "I was sent to a house-you know, for incorrigible boys. Evidently they saw Attica in advance. But they didn't cure...
...festooning of Professor Herrnstein's classroom with placards calling him a racist and a fascist, badgering him in class on at least one occasion with irrelevant and ad hominem questions (e.g. "is that why you think Attica prisoners should have been murdered?"), and of reading a long and disruptive statement in class...
...well you may grimace. Back there behind you are the invasion of Laos and Attica and the New Economic Policy and the Cooling of the Campus and U.S. vs. New York Times, and the Ali-Frazier fight and the White House Wedding and a rotten rock festival in Louisiana. Go to the top of the hill and follow the weedy trail through the five-barred gate to the back door, Sit down at home and rest until 1972. Father Time has lovely new treats in store...
...targets for class actions seem to be almost limitless. Current suits are challenging hamburger labeling practices, allegedly usurious credit-card finance charges and preferential air fares for youths. Last week seven Attica prisoners got a U.S. court of appeals to order an end to the maltreatment of all the prison's inmates by guards. Using unusually strong language, the court found that the cruelty described in prisoners' testimony "far exceeded what our society will tolerate on the part of officers...