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N.Y. STATE CORRECTION COMMISSIONER RUSSELL OSWALD IN PRISON YARD AFTER BATTLE,

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Spiro's Spew on Attica

The White House announced Wednesday that it is "sticking by" an earlier statement made by the President Nixon when he congratulated prison and New York state officials for their handling of the Attica prison rebellion.

Nixon had personally called New York governor Nelson Rockefeller and praised him for the manner in which authorities had stormed Attica prison on Tuesday. The President told Rockefeller that he was in full agreement with the decision not to grant amnesty to the rebelling inmates, and that he supported the decision to send in police and National Guardsmen.

Shortly after Nixon's public message of unqualified support, it was learned that nine hostages who were slain apparently were killed by gunshots fired by police and guardsmen. None appeared to have been killed by inmates as first reports from prison officials had insisted.

Vice-President Spiro Agnew accused the "radical left" and the news media September 27, of seeking to transform the Attica prison massacre into "yet another cause celebre in the pantheon of radical revolutionary propaganda."

Agnew declared in a speech to the International Association of Chiefs of Police in Anaheim, Cal., that there has been "inordinate attention focused on the self-declared and proven enemies of our society."

"Now the name 'Attica' joins the list of geographic place names and slogans whose very utterance, In the litany of anti-Amerikan hate preached by radical propagandists, is a dagger at the heart of our country's free institutions," Agnew said. Continuing with his proposed observations Spiro said that no citizen could ignore the need for prison reform, but that was not the primary issue of Attica.

'Only by the total inversion of all civilized values can those among the militant inmates who killed a guard and slashed the throats of fellow inmates during the period of their holdout be termed heroes in a struggle for human life and dignity," he said. JAIL THE JAILERS!!