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...with the plain upon which ancient Athens nurtured philosophy and democracy. Nor will it simply stand for the bucolic little town that gave its name to a turreted prison, mislabeled a "correctional facility." Attica will evoke the bloodiest prison rebellion in U.S. history. It will take its place alongside Kent State, Jackson State, My Lai and other traumatic events that have shaken the American conscience and incited searing controversy over the application of force?and the pressures that provoke...
...KENT LAWRENCE Nashville, Kans...
...well succeed. All of them agree on the need to keep production costs in the $1 million-to-$2 million range, a ceiling that the state of the economy has imposed on old-style Hollywood productions as well. "We have no intention of producing Catch~22s," says Richard Kent, treasurer of Bristol-Myers, which will bring out three movies in the fall-all in what Kent calls "the low end of the cost structure...
...Kramer took an ad in the Salt Lake City Tribune, accused the Mormons of trying to "block out ideas and the right of discussion," pleaded that his film merely has things to say about gun control and killing. "Some," read Kramer's ad, "have even compared it to Kent State...
Thus 15 months of repeated, detailed inquiry ended with only a pious wish. Robert White, president of Kent State, found Mitchell's decision acceptable. In Lorain, Ohio, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Schroeder, parents of one of the dead students, said bitterly: "Until now, we have had faith in our system of government." The four sets of parents also issued a joint statement. The decision not to convene a federal grand jury, they said, "is nearly as great a shock as that which came to us when our children were killed...