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>     One of our fomer governors, Nelson Rockefeller, had the SUNY
>     campus of  Purchase (Westchester just north of NYC) built of
>     brick,  also the campus was designed for quick deployment of
>     anti-personnel vehicles and crowd containment lest the students riot. 
>
> A memo from The New York Times to its writers dated January 25, 1990:
>  
> "Some of us were working here when an inmate rebellion at Attica 
> prison in upstate New York was crushed on Sept. 13, 1971. At first, 
> news people accepted as fact, and printed without qualification, the 
> official version of events. It included the assertion that inmates had 
> slashed several hostages' throats and beaten and stabbed others to 
> death. Later, investigators concluded that while two hostages had been 
> seriously wounded by the inmates, those who died that day - 10 
> hostages, 29 inmates - had been killed by state troopers and 
> corrections officers. For some here, the lesson of that episode has 
> become a slogan: 'Remember Attica.' Not a bad idea."
> c

Yes... it was Attica I understand that led to the fortress design for 
Purchase.
Are there reasons to remember the Vietnam era?

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