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Reply To: | His reply: No. Have you read The Lazy Teenager by Virtual Reality?" < [log in to unmask]> |
Date: | Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:35:59 -0200 |
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[log in to unmask] wrote:
> 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.
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> A memo from The New York Times to its writers dated January 25, 1990:
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> "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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