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...After a five-day sit-in at Cairo University, called to protest the arrest of anti-regime student leaders, 3,000 students decided to march on the capital's central square. At the university bridge over the Nile, they were halted and turned back to their campus by riot police equipped with helmets, shields, batons and tear gas. There were later protests across the city at Ain Shams University, but at week's end the government neatly nipped both demonstrations by ending the current semester ten days ahead of schedule and dispatching riot police to enforce the sudden...
...Attica riot a radical conspiracy, or was it provoked by harsh treatment of prison inmates? Could the toll of 43 dead have been avoided? Countless books, studies and articles have debated the questions. Throughout all the argument, one group remained silent: the Wyoming County grand jury that was poring over the evidence to determine what criminal charges should be brought. Now it is handing down its indictments-37 so far-and last week the first formal accusations were brought against convict leaders who emerged during the revolt...
Richard Clark, chief spokesman for the prisoners, and three other leaders were charged with kidnaping and face life sentences. The most serious charges involved two inmates who were not leaders, Charles Pernasilice and John Hill, both accused of beating a guard to death shortly after the riot broke out; the offense still carries the possibility of the death penalty in New York. The array of charges against other inmates includes the murder of a fellow convict, assault, coercion and even the theft of a prison...
...various defendants were arrested, shackled and brought into the Wyoming County courthouse for arraignment (some had been released since the riot), it became clear that another major trial with political overtones was already in the making. Protesters marched outside the courthouse chanting, "Let the Attica brothers go!" A lawyers' defense committee has already been organized, complete with a fund-raising dinner that featured Angela Davis as a principal guest...
...Bridge was cited for contempt and jailed for 20 days for refusing to go beyond a story about official corruption he wrote for the defunct Newark Evening News: Edwin Goodman served 44 hours of a 30-day sentence for refusing to hand over WBAI-FM tapes of a prison riot; William Farr has been in jail since Nov. 27 for refusing to disclose his source for a Los Angeles Times article about the Charles Manson murder trial...