Word: badillo
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Another possible contender is Congressman Herman Badillo. Badillo will probably get the support of the New Democratic Coalition, the umbrella group of liberal Democrats in New York City. However, his strength will probably be limited to liberals in Manhattan, blacks and Puerto Ricans. In his race three years ago. Badillo ran well in Jewish districts. However, after the controversy over the Forest Hills housing project, it seems unlikely that Jews will be as willing to vote for a Puerto Rican...
...save lives?hostages and inmates alike," he explained later. "We had to give the negotiations a chance." His first concession was to let into the compound a group of outsiders, chosen by the prisoners, to "oversee" the situation. They included New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker, Bronx Congressman Herman Badillo, Republican State Senator John R. Dunne and Clarence Jones, black publisher of Manhattan's Amsterdam News. But they also wanted Radical Lawyer William Kunstler and the Black Panthers' Bobby Seale. At one point there were as many as 30 mediators...
Four of the observers (Wicker, Badillo, Dunne and Jones) telephoned Rockefeller and for 90 minutes pleaded with him to come to Attica and talk to them as a means of expressing concern and buying more time. "If we could just get two hours, three hours, more time . . ." said Badillo. "I can give you that, all right," Rocky replied. "We'll stretch this [the negotiations] out as long as anybody thinks there's a chance of settling it peaceably. But if I come up and talk to you, they [the prisoners] will demand that I come inside ?and that wouldn...