Word: atticas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...action taken by New York authorities in restoring order to the Attica prison is highly commendable [Sept. 27]. Surely those who criticize overlook the fact that the prisoners involved are desperately sick men whose ability to reason is seriously impaired if not totally destroyed. Such lawlessness cannot be tolerated; the action taken will, I hope, discourage future incidents of this nature...
...tragedy of spilling our blood at Attica can only be redressed by another universal spilling: of intelligent thoughts on the fundamental causes...
...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...