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...most of the few prisoner gains were made through courts to change the policies of prison officials. In 1966, a federal court ordered officials to formulate rules that would allow Black Muslims to practice their faith. Attica prisoners conducted a non-violent sitdown strike last year, protesting low workshop wages and high prison-commissary prices, that led to a regulation cutting back on commissary profits. Last winter, prisoners won the right to be represented by lawyers at parole hearings, which has resulted in a backlog of hearings that, paradoxically, is a new source of grievance...
...Romans has there been as much furor about this crime as in the past year or so. This outcry has less to do with violence in American cities than with the radicals' all-embracing definition of the offense. Last April, they organized an all-day "rape workshop" in Manhattan, where they discussed such topics as "rape in marriage" and "the psychology of rapist and victim." (Child care was provided.) For women who cannot bring themselves to feel raped, there is a spectrum of lesser outrages to dwell upon, like being whistled at or ogled. Manhattan's Village Voice...
...eight days in early March, a Harvard-owned building-the Architectural Technology Workshop at 888 Memorial Drive-was held by about 100 militant women as a "Liberated Women's Center." Amidst rumors and threats of an imminent bust by police, the building was finally vacated March...
...following day. Archibald Cox '34, professor of Law and University troubleshooter, said, "The University has no intention of allowing the occupants of the Architectural Technology Workshop to remain there. We are currently considering the most effective means of requiring occupants to leave if they do not leave voluntarily...
...hard court battle and won. After that, it was merely a matter of following in her father's footsteps. "I was his only child," Anna recalled recently for the Italian magazine Oggi (she refuses to see foreign journalists). "Often he would take me with him to visit his workshop, and he always quizzed me on the jobs he was doing: 'Tell me, Anna, how would you design this palace?' " Anna credits her father with instilling in her "the religion of work and duty...