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...fallen or faded. Bill Bonanno was a natural for Talese. But how does a journalist get close to the Mafia? Very slowly and very carefully. Research on the book took nearly seven years from the time in 1965 when Talese first introduced himself to Bonanno in a courtroom corridor. One of Talese's fears in producing Honor Thy Father was that the Government would subpoena him to testify about any criminal activities he might have come across. At one point, Talese says, his credit card was canceled. When he inquired why, he was told that his entire file...
Within the prison's administration building, the committee watched the activity with growing horror. Some arranged another meeting with the inmates and walked a final time down the A-block corridor (dubbed "the DMZ") toward the prisoner-controlled gates. Inmates had earlier agreed that newsmen could film the hostages to show that they were still alive, and allowed the captives to speak before the cameras. The hostages pleaded for more time, warned against an assault, and urged Rockefeller to come to the prison. "Unless Rockefeller comes here, I am a dead man," said Sergeant Edward Cunningham, a ten-year Attica...
...Oswald walked clown the "DMZ" to confront a prisoner delegation led by Clark. Brother Richard said he wanted more time; again he demanded "complete, total, unadulterated amnesty" and the removal of "that guy Mancusi." At 9:05 a.m., a convict shouted down the corridor through a mega phone that all hostages would be killed if state troopers tried to storm the compound. Replied Oswald's chief assistant, Walter Dunbar: "Release the prisoners now. Then the commissioner will meet with you." The fatal one-word reply was "Negative...
...YORK AND NEW JERSEY suffer most from overpopulation. More than 16 million people are squeezed into the New York City-northern New Jersey corridor, and almost all of them use New York Harbor, Long Island Sound and the Hudson River as convenient dumping grounds. New York City's nearly 8,000,000 inhabitants continue to overwhelm existing facilities; the uncontrolled runoff of sewage has covered 40% of the harbor bottom with sludge. Complicating matters is the fact that there may be as much undiscovered oil lying off Long Island, where 42 oil companies are now involved in exploration...
...stone polisher on the outside. In prison, he scribbled the play on scraps of paper to kill time when he could not sleep; he would stretch out on his stomach on the floor of his cell after lights-out, sticking his hands through the bars to write by the corridor lighting. > Jerry Pulliam, 27, plays Jason, who kills a hood by stabbing him with an ice pick. It is grimly reminiscent of his own crime. "I killed an acquaintance with a knife," says Pulliam, now in his fourth year of a life sentence. "There are so many Jasons in here...