Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...towns people of Attica viewed the conflict. Levitt, an experienced police reporter, obtained a private interview with Corrections Commissioner Russell Oswald. Roger Williams, as signed to analyze the political impact of Attica, obtained a special interview with Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Joseph Boyce, a policeman turned journalist, assayed the mood in New York City's black neighborhoods, home to many of the Attica inmates...
...been set. Oswald, consulting with Rockefeller by telephone and with his aides on the scene, had decided that two final ultimatums would be delivered to the prisoners; if there was no favorable response, the attack would come on Monday morning. The prisoners, they felt, were intransigent, and their mood was turning uglier. The 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...
...tragedy than a dedication ceremony held last week for Georgetown University's new law center, a few blocks from the Supreme Court building. The guest speaker was Chief Justice Warren E. Burger. Preceding him, Alfred F. Ross, president of Georgetown's student bar association, reflected the somber mood of Burger's audience by making an impassioned reference to the prison riot and its aftermath. "What happened at Attica," he said, "was not merely a senseless and brutal massacre of men whose lives had already been unspeakably mutilated and wasted. What we witnessed was but the latest...
Reparations Argument. The mood in Europe also grew darker. It was not helped by a parade abroad of official American flag wavers, who have tried to hard sell the U.S. program in rather unconciliatory terms. Paul Volcker, Under Secretary of the Treasury, irritated the French by telling them that Nixon, for political reasons, will be unable to devalue the dollar. In Brussels and Paris, U.S. ambassadors and their aides summoned groups of resident U.S. businessmen to advise them that foreign governments actually approved of the Nixon program and that the U.S. position should be, "We don't apologize...
Saigon's political mood could best be described as tense but basically subdued, despite Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky's efforts to inject some life into it. General Duong Van Minh had dropped out. Ky was barred from the presidential race by South Viet Nam's Supreme Court, then given the go-ahead, but he dropped out anyway, protesting that the contest was rigged. Last week he again publicly called for Thieu's resignation. In place of the Oct. 3 balloting he suggested that he, as Vice President, take charge of South Viet Nam and organize...