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...behind the walls and how the 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...
...hamlet two miles down a mud footpath from the nearest village big enough to have a helicopter pad. At high noon, clusters of Vietnamese stood idly between the Catholic church and the school that housed the polling stations. Why was no one voting? "It's lunchtime," a national policeman explained. Reminded that the polls were to be open from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. with no break for lunch, the cop barked into his walkie-talkie, then grunted an order. The people in the square lined up and began moving into the school building. "They're voting...
Ungovernable Ulster. The I.R.A.'s growing fanaticism was underscored last week by one of its leaders, Joe Cahill, who has belonged to the I.R.A. for 27 of his 51 years (twelve of them in prison, including 71 years for the murder, with five other men, of an Ulster policeman in 1942). Easily slipping across the border from the north, Cahill showed up in Dublin, where he told newsmen that his organization intended to shoot as many British soldiers in Northern Ireland as possible...
Noticing a long-haired teen-ager eating an ice cream cone and chatting with a girl in a parked car, a policeman in Hyannis, Mass., told the youth to move on; the car was blocking traffic. "He appeared dazed and unsteady on his feet, and his eyes were bloodshot," the officer later explained. So he asked the youth if he was drunk. "No," said 17-year-old Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and, according to the cop, spat a mouthful of ice cream into his face. Hauled into court on a loitering charge (just two weeks after his one-year probation...
...still angry judges were rousted out for fingerprinting and mug shots, and that was when the police made a mistake: they called the names of all seven judges who had been at the club. Because only five had actually been arrested, Florida Judge William Frye III, a former policeman, finally smelled a rat. Pressed by the judges, the police admitted that it had all been a put-up job, a "field trip" arranged in cooperation with the college to show the judges the view from the other side of the bench. The bruiser who punched Judge Dean was a local...