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...Sunday afternoon, preparations were under way for an assault by state troopers and National Guardsmen; indeed, many of their commanders had for days been pressing Oswald to let them attack. Fearful relatives of the captive guards, waiting wearily in the rain, saw powerful fire hoses carried into the prison, truckloads of gas masks unloaded. A Catholic priest asked them to pray for the hostages...
...inmates, most of them blacks, seized control of one cell block and parts of two others. They grabbed more than 30 guards as hostages, then locked the gates shut against a gathering force of more than 1,000 heavily armed police, state troopers and National Guardsmen. Rejecting surrender demands from prison officials, the convicts shouted instructions back from the captured central watchtower through makeshift megaphones. They demanded, and were allowed, outside lawyers and observers of their own choice to help them bargain with state authorities...
Amri, enraged by such impertinence, demanded identification, and Harazi made the fatal mistake of giving his name and address. Minutes later, soldiers poured into his shop and dragged him to general military headquarters. There, as Amri watched, guardsmen beat him with iron rods. Harazi pleaded for mercy to no avail. When the guardsmen refused Amri's order to kill Harazi, said reports from San'a, the Premier picked up a gun himself and shot the shopkeeper in the head...
...immediately after the killing of four students by National Guardsmen at Kent State University, the FBI began an extensive investigation that eventually filled some 8,000 pages. Last week Attorney General John Mitchell announced that the reports did not warrant "further action by the Department of Justice." Mitchell said that he agreed with the President's Commission on Campus Unrest that the shooting was "unnecessary, unwarranted and inexcusable." But he found no evidence of a conspiracy among National Guardsmen to shoot the students. Nor, he said, was there any "likelihood of successful prosecutions of individual Guardsmen. We can only...
Though National Guardsmen have not been needed to quell their disorders, in the past three years U.S. high schools have become far more frequently troubled than college campuses ever were. Almost two-thirds of the nation's high schools?expensive new suburban complexes as well as the blackboard jungles of inner cities?have suffered disruptions. The incidents range from peaceful sit-ins protesting censorship of the student paper to savage riots between blacks and whites. Last week a fresh report from one of the worst battlefields, New York City, suggested that schools have themselves partly to blame...