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...Junatic, is holed up in J.P.'s library, ready to blow it up. He is holding all New York at ransom to correct a racial humiliation. He bombs fire stations, dominates the tabloids, and threatens to detonate the Morgan property if he is not avenged. As in Attica, a "representative" is sent in, Booker T.Washington, but the ragtime man is adamant. He has put America into a panic--if this can happen, what next? They can't let him give the orders. Everything is out of kilter, the world is topsy-turvy, the granite is crumbling underfoot. They send...
Modern Greeks still like to refer to their country as the cradle of democracy, but in fact Greek politics has rarely reflected Attica's ancient heritage. Scarcely had Greece won its independence from the Turks in the 1820s when the infant republic ended in a presidential assassination. The great powers protecting the new nation promptly imposed an absolutist King from Bavaria. Ever since, Greece's political history has seesawed between short periods of volatile republicanism and longer ones of oppressive authoritarianism...
...April 1972; the Attica Brigade's trashing of the CFIA...
Although 62 of the Attica inmates have been indicted by a grand jury, not one guard or policeman has yet been charged. Bell, who quit in disgust last December, made his complaint in a letter of resignation to State Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz. That was followed in January by a 160-page report to incoming Governor Hugh Carey. Last week the letter and the report leaked...
...what's-his-name-Simonetti." Bell is calling instead for an independent inquiry of the prosecutor's office. The evidence-and the news that two more prosecutors resigned from Simonetti's staff-indicate such a study is probably needed to dissolve the doubts shrouding the Attica tragedy...