Word: rumoring
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With the riot and its aftermath still shrouded by secrecy, rumor, half-truths and untruths, the nation was sorely split in trying to decide just why it happened and who was to blame. Since most of Attica's prisoners are black, many blacks saw the event as yet another manifestation of America's deep-rooted racism. Newark Mayor Kenneth Gibson termed it "one of the most callous and blatantly repressive acts ever carried out by a supposedly civilized society." White liberals ?and not liberals alone?interpreted Attica as, at the very least, a measure of the bankruptcy...
...what, more immediately, sparked the riot? It could have been the rumor of brutality that swept the prison on Sept. 8, after a young guard reportedly tackled an inmate who refused to leave his cell for a disciplinary hearing on charges of punching 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...
Stressing the importance of decentralizing the city government. Atkins had only $50,000 in his budget. Rumor has it that Atkins is in line for a federal job when he finishes his post as councillor...
Stressing the importance of decentralizing the city government, Atkins had only $50,000 in his budget. Rumor has it that Atkins is in line for a federal job when he finishes his post as councillor...
...most persistent rumor was that Evita's body had been shipped to Rome disguised as that of a nun and buried in a cemetery there. As it turned out, that story came closest to the truth. The Argentine ambassador to Spain announced two weeks ago that Eva Perón's body had been transferred from Italy and returned, as an act of "Christian dignity," to Juan Perón, now 75 and living in exile in Spain with his third wife. The transfer was reportedly part of a political accommodation between the Peronistas, who are still...