NEWS PHONE: 764-0552 BUSINESS PHONE: 764-0554 Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely, but too well... OLIVIER is OT HELLO THE GREATEST SHAKESPEARE EVER PUT ON FILM, BY THE GREATEST ACTOR OF OUR TIME. C14 r S"ixi*tian ttti page three Ann Arbor, Michigan Sunday, October 3, 1971 Attica 's wrong story. Who's to blame? SUNDAY AUD. A, ANGELL ONE DAY ONLY at 1-4-7-10 pm sponsored by orson welles film society ATTICA, N.Y. (A) - This is the story behind the story of Attica. In the wake of the prison uprising in which 42 men died, the press coverage of the events at Attica state prison has generated a controversy of its own. It is focused chiefly on the press' role in distributing reports that Monday afternoon rebellious inmates had slash- ed the throats of hostages who died. The reports were later described by medical authorities as false and some critics charged the press was too ready to accept as fact the word of the of- ficials.. Some facts of Monday morning, Sept. 9 the day of the raid are well known by now. Roughly 1,000 armed peace officers moved against 1,200 convicts who held 38 hostages in their D Block exercise yard. As a result, 42 persons are dead-- 10 prison employes and 32 convicts. Gerald Houlihan, public information officer for the state Correction Depart- ment, and other state officials set up headquarters inside the prison. Re- porters at the scene recall that Houli- han came out every two or three hours to read official statements and answer some of newsmen's questions. It was at one of these sessions, an hour and half after the police raid broke the rebellion in its fourth day. that the report of throat slashing was 'heard for the first time from the lips of a state official. As dawn broke, reporters outside the prison - numbering between 100 and 150 --- told each other that an attempt by the authorities to break the revolt was inevitable. As they waited for further official word, hundreds of day shift state police, heavily armed and carrying gas masks, entered the prison to join the night shift. Two helicopters on the lawn out- side the prison were started up. One helipcopter circled above the prison once, and suddenly swung back across the walls at low level, dumping canisters of tear gas into the yard be- low. Immediately, gunfire rattled and boomed inside and from atop the gray walls, accompanied by screams and shouts. The tear gas drifted over the wall, gagging reporters and relatives of prison employes who had massed there. Shouts and calls for assistance crack- led loudly from radios in parked police cruisers. About one and a half hours after the assault had been launched-roughly 1:15 a.m. - Houlihan appeared at the gate to make the first official statement on hostage deaths. He reported that 37 convicts and hostages had been killed. In a chaotic scene, newsmen shouted questions up to him. "How about the cut throats?" some- one shouted. The question was asked several times. Houlihan demurred sever- al times and then said, "Several host- ages had their throats slashed." He was not asked and he did not say where his information came from. Several media carried reports of the slashing deaths that day without at- tribution, stating as fact that this was how the hostages died. However, Dr. John F. Edland, Mon- roe County medical examiner, reported after his autospies that all hostages had died from gunshot wounds and "there were no cut throats or any kind of mu- tilation." To this day, according to Houlihan, the correction commission still dis- putes Edland's findings that none of the slain hostages had had his throat slashed. Today, most sources of official in- formation are closed, under the stamp of an official investigation being con- ducted by Deputy State Atty. Gen. Ro- bert F. Fischer. Some of the answers may lie in still- unreleased filmed records-on video- tape and in hundreds of still photo- graphs - of the actual assault. SNEAK PREVIEW TONITE! "UNFORGETTABLE! IT IS SO BEAUTIFUL THAT IT REQUIRES MORE THAN ONE VISIT!" -The New Yorker WANE BOSPRSETS FLMYLUCHr\NO VISCO J TARGDIPK BOGARDE 'DEATH IN VENiCE" / B ADRSEN LV-ST V MUUI#i~cws REE PLA" B VISCONTI BADALUCCO FROM THE NOVELS? ~iT~aS MM j' PRtODUCEO 'fWCIN ISCON(('l~ TI / ASSOCIATE EXECUTvE PECO~UCE ERECUTV EPRODUCR -IRA O / PO WARNER BROS .A UNNEY LEISURE SERim SNEAK PREIEW at 6:45 with ANN MARGARET STAR OF "CARNAL KNOWLEDGE" news briefs By The Associated Press REP. RICHARD POFF (R-Va.) viewed as a, likely appointee to the Supreme Court, removed his name yesterday from the list of prospective candidates. He said in a statement that he has asked President Nixon: not to consider his name because the Senate confirmation process "would be protracted and controversial." The congressman has drawn the fire of Civil rights groups be- cause of his votes on bills in that field and because he joined otherj members of Congress in signing the so-called Southern Manifesto opposing racial integration of schools. FIREBOMBINGS and window smashings were reported by police in Jacksonville, Fla. as racial violence continued Friday night. Two buildings were firebombed and several persons were ar- rested in an inner-city black neighborhood according to police. Police said a crowd of about 500 blacks and 300 whites were pelted with rocks as they left a high school football game. One car was set on fire, but the flames were quickly extinguished, police said. The racist unrest came in the wake of a Wednesday morning shootout in which a black youth was killed and a policeman wounded. * A * SECRETARY OF STATE William P. Rogers believes t h e diplomatic consensus here favors an accord on reopening the Suez Canal as the only practical approach toward an over-all Mideast settlement. Rogers and his top Mideast expert, Asst. Secretary of State Jos- eph Sisco, are putting forward a six-point Suez settlement plan as a high priority item in their backstage meetings here. Ro'gers' proposal covers the opening of the canal, extension of the cease-fire, withdrawal of Israel from the canal area, and the nature of the Egyptian presence in the vacated area. * * * CHANCELLOR WILLY BRANDT will call for new elections if his East European policy is rejected by the West German parlia- ment, government spokesman Conrad Ahlers said yesterday. Ahlers said that if the Bundestag votes down ratification of the treaties with the Soviet Union and Poland, which Brandt initialledj last year, Brandt will call the new elections to test popular senti- ment on his opening to the East. THE SENATE has passed and sent to the House a resolution directing the Nixon administration to increase federal payments to the states for school lunches for needy youngsters. The measure, passed 75 to 5 Friday, would in effect increase the federal contribution per lunch from 35 to 46 cents. Jail conditions protested across United States * By The Associated Press Peaceful demonstrations were staged in parts of the country yesterday to protest conditions in U.S. prisons. Among speakers during the day were radical activists Tom Hayden, in Los Angeles; the Rev. James Groppi, in Sandstone, Minn, and David Dellinger, in Danbury. A coalition of groups, including some peace organiza- tions, sponsored the day's activities. No instances of vio- lence were reported. Approximately 100 persons heard Rev. Groppi describe prisons as "an example of racism and a sick society." He spoke at a park a mile outs- - from the Federal Correctional " " Institute in Sandstone. Nine tailors -Associated Press PROTESTS AGAINST prison conditions included one by some 50 inmates of the Orleans Parish Prison demanding better sani- tary facilities. Sheriff Louis Heyd meets with prisoners to tell therma n bi mhpvis nn thv wa. "Instead of trying to rehabili- tate prisoners in a cage we should abolish prisons," said Groppi. wy.In Dallas several demonstrators appeared on the lawn of the DEBATE NEXT WEEK: County Courthouse to read com- plaints compiled by inmates about in tr ducemedical treatment, overcrowding, Senate toitrenew visiting rights, food, mail censor- ship and isolation cells. About 25 members of a group called Direct Action and the Vie' amtendments to end W nam Veterans against the Wa By The Associated Press distributed leaflets at the Travis By Te Asociaed PessLana that U.S. troops be w i t h- County Jail in Austin, Tex. Senate critics of the Indochina drawn in six months if prisoners war are planning two efforts this are freed. The leaflets protested "the de- week to limit U.S. involvement plorable dehumanizing treatment in Laos and Cambodia-dplus a TheChuh-Cooeaenm y of people who are jailed in oeu r new effort to cut off all war fllyds will be offered to the foreign aid community." A candlelight vigil and force complete American authorization bill now before the was planed. withdrawal. Foreign Relations Committee, ra- Otiwar amendments also ther than the $21 billion military An estimated 150 persons !aedefor action. procurement bill, the vehicle for mrhdna h okCut are due Fra ch(n. dho}Mansfield's amendment. Jail in Chicago, while 200 as- Sens. Frank Church (D-Idaho) sembled to hear Black Panther and John Sherman Cooper, (R- Meanwhile, Sen. Stuart Sy- Party Chairman Bobby Seale out- Ky., are drafting an amendment mington, (D-Mo.), hopes to win side San Quentin, Calif. that would cut off war funds at approval Monday of an amend- At the Wisconsin Home for an as yet unspecified date, if ment to the arms bill that would Wome iTchnsdnHoe for the prisoners 'are freed. mn oteam ilta ol Women in Taycheedah about 50 The Senate last weekdapproved put a lid of $200 million-less marchers "walked by the institu- a proposal by Senate Democratic! than half of the planned. $490.2 tion and then disappeared," ac- leader Mike Mansfield of Mon-'million-on U.S. spending in Laos. cording to officials there. go AWOL to protest war SAN DIEGO, Calif. () Nine sailors were flown to their ship Saturday following their arrest at a church where they had taken sanctuary to avoid sailing to the Southeast Asia war zone. The sailors' ship, the aircraft carrier USS Consteliation, 1 e f t San Piego on Friday after weeks of protests by antiwar groups who sought to prevent its departure, calling it a symbol of escalation in the war. The crewmen, some of whom entered the church Wednesday, were declared deserters by offic- ials aboard the ship after it left port, but naval officials said af- ter the arrests no specific charges had been filed against the sailors. O 0 PIPTH Forum FIFTHAVENUE AT LUSERTY DOWNTOWN ANN ARBOR INFORMATION 761.9700 SUNDAY "VEN ICE" 2:15,4:30,9 "SNEAK" 6:45 P.M. COMING SOON Ken Russell's "THE DEVILS" 'U I I Give The Bear abreak. You're the only one who can. Because all Smokey can do is ask you to help prevent forest fires. He can't break your matches. Or douse your campfires. Or snuff out your cigarets. Only you can. "So, please, lend Smokey a hand. And maybe while you're at it, lend him your voice too: tell people to give the bear a break. He deserves it. So does America. f MN 0 - I>8 - FEATURES THIS WEEK LAST NIGHT THE ALLEY-330 Maynard ARTHUR 'BIG BOY' CRUDUP HElvis Presley's Inspirational Idol" AND JOHNNY SHINES 8:30 $2.25 MONDAY- Rock Concert with PINBALL ALLEY IN THE BASEMENT NEXT WEEK-OOCT. 9, 10-DR. ROSS LIGHTIN' SLIM L I I THE WHIZ KIDS Two Young Ann Arbor Music ians Playing the Piano, Organ, Sax, and Drums. A Fantastic Show! TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY- BOB SPRINGFIELD Singing the Big Hits of the Fifties and Sixties, also Folk Music THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY- THE GASLITERS Our Famous Gay Nineties Banjo Sing Along Band ARM/ Michigan Film Society Issho yi Gong and Ecumenical Campus Center THIS WEEK two modern classic films by AKIRA KUROSAWA IKIRU Tuesday, Oct. 5 "Kurosawa's most notable achievement in a long line of masterpieces." -SATURDAY REVIEW A man learns he is to die in six months from cancer: panic, desperation, resolve. Finally, only the audi- ence sees . . 1st Presbyterian Church-1432 Washtenaw 7 & 9:30 p.m. -off S. University- 7 Samurai Friday-Saturday, Oct. 8-9 "Maanificent Seven"-"It is not only Kurosawa's I I DINNERS EVERY NIGHT 4:00 P.M.-9:00 P.M. PIZZA Only After 9:00 P. HOURS Mon.-Thurs. 4 P.M.-1 A.M. Fri. and Sat. 4 P.M.-2 A.M. Sunday 4 P.M.-12 A.M. .I * /' P~ tA/1U i '::: i 1