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...townsfolk insist that the prison guards treated their charges with fair discipline and genuinely tried to help them. The residents feel strongly that the riot occurred because of the "permissiveness" of state officials?notably Oswald, who is as heartily detested as the inmates. "Oswald was at fault," said Frank Mandeville, for many years the owner of Timm's Hardware. "If he had gone in right away, some lives might have been lost, but not on the tragic scale we have now." Mandeville, who still doubts that the hostages were killed by police bullets rather than knife wounds, insists: "Political pressure...
...riot's wake, many are thinking of moving away. "Half the men I talk with are ready to quit," says one guard. Meanwhile, the town was burying its dead and trying to return to normalcy. Some Atticans, certainly, were reflecting on the words of the Rev. Charles F. Williman, of St. Paul's United Church of Christ, in a sermon at the funeral of one deceased guard. "Until nine days ago, we could believe we were sheltered from the rest of the world, separated as we were from the problems of the people in the city and the ghettos...
...prison tragedy has clearly been a shock to the values and ideals of Attica's citizens. There is a bitterness toward the rebel prisoners who led the riots that in many cases borders on hatred. One man referred to them as "outlaws who are out to destroy our country and burn our cities, and now want to destroy our prison." A woman who refused to give her name went even further. "Now when I see a Negro I feel different," she said, "now I feel uncomfortable." But there is also an understanding of the prisoners' lot. "I felt they...
Last week, in the bloodiest of a long series of skirmishes over the building of Tokyo's new jetport at Narita, some 40 miles southeast of the capital, that code was violently broken. Nearly 5,000 riot police were on hand to help airport officials expropriate three parcels of farm land that were holding up the last stage of construction. The farmers were grimly determined to resist seizure of their ancestral tracts. So too were some 3,000 student activists...
...band of students charged 80 policemen manning a checkpoint on a dirt road about a mile from the center of the action. Crying "korose!" (kill!), the students threw scores of Molotov cocktails, then worked over the cops with steel pipes, bamboo staves and nail-studded sticks. Some of the riot police, who do not carry guns in Japan, fled. But 30 were left slumped and bleeding on the ground. Three soon died, one with a ruptured heart and two with shattered skulls...