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...rebels. The prisoners had created an extremely efficient paramilitary organization. The leaders had commandeered a megaphone, and they dictated a list of demands, which had been neatly typed by inmates seated at a long bench. The hostages were encircled and carefully guarded?both against escape and from any harm by more hostile inmates?by a ring of grim convicts, standing with arms interlocked. Some wore football helmets; others were masked by towels and rags...
...choking gas, which induces tears and nausea, filled the yard. At first the gunfire was barely audible over the roar of the choppers. From one helicopter, an amplified voice kept repeating: "Put your hands over your head. Walk to the outside of the yard. You will not be harmed. Do not harm the hostages...
...further. "Now when I see a Negro I feel different," she said, "now I feel uncomfortable." But there is also an understanding of the prisoners' lot. "I felt they had legitimate gripes," said Paul Krotz, one of the hostages. Others praised the Muslim prisoners, who protected several hostages from harm and even death. Said Bill Harder, whose brother and son work at the prison: "We're not blaming all the prisoners. Some should get time off for all the help they gave during the riot...
...think my major immediate problem is to educate myself sufficiently about areas of the University in which I have to make key appointments, so that I will make those appointments well. To put it another way, if I fail to make those appointments well, I could do more permanent harm to the University than in almost any other way. The financial problems--not only the husbanding of our own resources but the effort to promote a healthy development of federal assistance to higher education--are also tremendously important...
...miss a few notes," he says, "I don't care as long as the musical purpose is clear. When I remember performances which have impressed me, few of them were note perfect. I don't want to be perfect at any expense. Perfection has done too much harm already in music...