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...revolt, one guard, William Quinn, 28, was severely injured; some observers said that they saw his body fall from an upper floor. The first day, convicts released Quinn and 11 other guards and civilians so that they could get medical help. After being stripped, the remaining guards were given inmate clothing, blankets and even mattresses (which convicts in the rain-soaked yard did not have) to sleep on. Guard Phillip Watkins, 33, said that convicts at first kicked him and broke his arm. But another prisoner called them off. Later he was addressed as "sir," given cigarettes, hot meals...
...another guard. Or it could have been a mess-hall incident the same day in which two prisoners threw a piece of glass at a guard and, after the ensuing scuffle, were sent to the box; both claimed they had been beaten. Some prison officials are convinced that the revolt was planned; they found the date Sept. 9 "circled big" on calendars in some cells...
...Oswald made two other conciliatory moves that he hoped might gain release of the hostages. While insisting that he could not agree to amnesty for any criminal acts committed by the convicts, he signed a pledge that prison officials would take no administrative action against the rebels for their revolt and would not punish them physically (which is against state law anyway). He also supplied Attorney Schwartz with transportation to Manchester, Vt., where Federal Judge John T. Curtin put the prohibition against reprisals into the form of a highly unusual court injunction. The brief for the injunction was drafted...
...terrorists in many of the world's major cities. "We need this house for an operation." The operation was a massive jail break by 106 Tupamaros-self-styled Robin Hood revolutionaries who take their name from Túpac Amaru, an 18th century Inca chief who led a revolt against Spain...
...TIME could hardly have been more correct on any political prediction than the one on "Scoop" Jackson in which it was suggested that he, if nominated, would of all candidates be "most likely to trigger a revolt, and hence a fourth party on the Democratic left...