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...inmates had dug trenches up to 200 feet long and flanked by mounds of dirt to provide protection against attack. Gates were being wired to make them electrically hot. Metal tables were upended along the catwalk leading to the "Times Square" intersection of the prison's inner connecting corridors???a route along which any invading police would certainly come. "They were going to create an inferno [by igniting gasoline] when our men came through," contended one Rockefeller aide. "We had a deteriorating situation on our hands, and we had to act before it got worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: War at Attica: Was There No Other Way? | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

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