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...Wounded Knee...
...Wounded Knee had become a kind of trap, particularly for television. It was obviously a major event that demanded thorough coverage. AIM leaders were so successful in getting their side of the story across, and so enthralled by the attention they were receiving, that they seemed willing to prolong the deadlock for the sake of still more publicity. Most newsmen watched helplessly as the thin line between covering and creating news wavered...
...Correspondent Fred Briggs. A wire-service photographer went further: "We've definitely prolonged the thing." NBC Cameraman Houston Hall agreed, attributing the continued large-scale coverage to the public relations skills of AIM leaders. Indeed, AIM'S Russell Means, for example, cannily orchestrated events within Wounded Knee for the press's benefit. "Cameras over here," he called out one afternoon, directing photographers to where bunkers were being enlarged. Then AIM forces "arrested" four men attempting to enter their compound. Released a few minutes later, the men were paraded at gun point with their hands up past whirring...
...outside." Brown also thinks that on several occasions newsmen's questions influenced the improvised policy of AIM spokesmen. At one meeting, Brown recalled, "I put the question to them: 'Are you setting up a provisional government?' " Shortly afterward AIM leaders declared Wounded Knee the Oglala Nation...
...suits in white or pale flannel or muted plaids; wide-legged baggy pants, cuffed or pleated or both; pin-stripe shirts with big butterfly bow ties; and two-tone spectator shoes, all for both sexes. Daytime wear for women relies on little white pleated skirts ending just above the knee, and small cloche hats pulled down to the eyebrows For evening, everything is soft and flowing in chiffon and crepe de Chine, bias cut to drape close to the body, just the thing for a moonlight tango with a gentleman in an Indian silk suit. The fabrics are natural-wool...