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Gets Second Loss •', It : SFIE STORY BEIjpW Clearing, Mild £ Clearing, mild today. Fair, cooler tonight. Sunny and FINAL mild tomorrow and Thursday. EDITION VOL.94 NO,55 RED BANK, NJ. TUESDAY, SGPTKMBER14,1971 tiSN CENTS Attica Decision Called eAgonizing9 ATTICA, N. Y. (A.P.) - "It just had to be an agonizing dc He had the approval of Gov. Nelson A, Rockefeller. an action that only Rockefeller could authorize. State policemen, guards and-sheriff's deputies stormed the cision that I will have to live with." Wantedl Panel Formed Inquiries were met with silence. prison. The threat of massive violence that had hung over Attica In the hours following Thursday's rebellion, the convicts Negotiations between Oswald and the convicts reached an Gunfire echoed from within the prison. State prison for four days had just ended in the rattle of gun- requested formation of a special mediation panel to hear their impasse Sunday over rebel demands for complete amnesty And National Guardsmen made their appearance as 70 . fire and clouds of tear gas. grievances. And a heavily armed force of 500 state policemen and the removal of Attica's superintendent, Vincent K. Man- trucks rumbled up to the main prison gate and carried fully - Thirty-seven men lay dead. and sheriff's deputies was assembled outside the prison's cusi. equipped troops inside the walls of Attica prison. And state Corrections Commissioner Russell G. Oswald walls. Oswald did agree to 28 other demands, but his answer on In 10 minutes the assault was virtually over. But 37 more reflected on his decision'. • . In a dramatic face-to-face meeting with the convicts in a amnesty and Mancusi was a flat no. lives were gone. prison yard controlled by the rebels, Oswald agreed on the day The special, mediation team continued to work, but it Would Do It Again of the uprising that there would be no administrative reprisals. warned that only patience would prevent a massacre of pris- "It became apparent to me," Oswald said, "that further "As regrettable and unfortunate as everything was, if I Friday, the civilian mediation team worked through U oners and hostages. delay would jeopardize the lives- of the hostages and would had to make the decision over again, I would undoubtedly constantly changing list of demands' submitted by the prison- Troops Moved In threaten the prison system of-the state." have to do the same thing," Oswald said yesterday. ers, and Oswald took the first preliminary planning steps to- Secretly, National Guard troops were moving into the He said the rebels had armed themselves with tear gas The bloody assault on rebellious inmates by law enforce- ward an all-out assault should it become necessary. town of Attica. launchers and knives and had continued to fashion other weap- ment officers and National Guard troops can be traced to the First Deatb Saturday At 8:15 a.m. yesterday, Oswald issued an ultimatum: The ons. He said they had prepared traps in the building they held convict uprising oMast Thursday, when prisoners gained con- The uprising took its first life Saturday when William hostages were to be released and order was to be restored and had erected electrically charged barricades. trol of portions of the gray stone fortress and took 38 hostages. Quinn, a guard who had suffered brain damage during the out- within the prison, He asked for an answer within an hour. "It became apparent to me shortly before the attack that But the ultimate decision to use an all-out attack, at what- break of violence Thursday, died. The prisoners never replied. we were dealing here with men who were fanatical, men who ever the cost, to smash the rebels was that of one man alone, And newsmen were tipped that National Guard troops in One hour and 48 minutes later, helicopters whirred in over were revolutionaries," Oswald said. , Russell G. Oswald Niagara Falls, Buffalo and Batavia had been placed on alert, the prison and dropped cannister after cannister of tear gas. "It was a decision that had to be made at the moment." Jackson Agrees on Hook Needs By SHERRY FIGDORE park "will destroy the objec- Hook) is unique. I know of no trains would revitalize Bay- forum to attack current Nixon fare problem as "a federal tive" of an expanded recrea- area set aside for so many shore commuter railroad ser- administration economic pol- problem, in need of a "federal SANDY HOOK - U.S. Sen. tion area. people within one hour to use. vice. PA officials, who have icies. solution. The federal govern- M. Jackson, D-Wash., yes- Calling the Gateway proj- The Jackson bill proposes jurisdiction' in Monmouth as "The two principle prob- ment must take over wel- terday backed demands by ect "a pacesetter" involving the use of "hydrofoils, hov- well as seven other counties lems facing the nation are fare." county Democratic candi- development of "a complex ercraft and other, innovative in the state, declined an in- jobs and inflation," he said, The senator, who said he dates tor "innovative" mass transportation system" for a water transportation sys- vitation to join yesterday's "and both must be brought was brought up in "the ethic transportation programs" and "very complex area," Sen. tems" but is open to mass tour because the sponsors under control. Unless the of work, the Great American local control to achieve the Jackson said his park system land transportation systems. were candidates, not- elected economy is managed proper- tradition," claimed that "the potential of Sandy Hook in the bill now before the House of Monmouth County state officials. ly, we can't manage $2 million bulk of people on welfare proposed Gateway National Representatives requires the Senate candidates Walter R. Mayors of Sea Bright, High- for the Gateway." Devel- really want to work. We have Park. Secretaries of the Interior and Gehricke, William Himelman lands, Atlantic Highlands, and opment and acquisition costs to provide training programs, The senator, chairman of Transportation to jointly de- and Vincent J. Miller have Keyport were on hand to hear of the entire Gateway project give children day-care centers the Senate Interior and In- velop some sort of feasible urged re-establishment of the Sen, Jackson's assurance that are estimated at about $137 and head start programs. If sular Affairs Committee, land or water based mass old Matawan to Highlands "local, municipal and county million. we don't do this, we will have touched down briefly oy heli- transportation. .Central Railroad spur with a officials would be consulted" Expanding on a comment a congenital system of wel- copter yesterday morning for The Gateway bill, setting bridge to the Hook. as development of the Ga- by Mr. Himelman about the fare." a scheduled tour of the Hook. aside 27,000 acres in the heart Mr. Gehricke said yes- teway progressed. current eight per cent Sen. Jackson confirmed his 1 Heavy rain squalls drowned of the most densely populated terday that "90 per cent of the "The Secretary of Trans- unemployment rate in Mon- consistent hardline stand on out a walking tour of the park, urban area in the nation has right-of-way is still in exis- • portation and the Secretary of mouth county, Sen. Jack<son national defense and de- but Sen. Jackson said he'd already been passed by the tence. With a tripling of the the Interior will work closely said the president's current nounced last week's elections seen enough from the chopper Senate. population, and a new influx with local people," he said. program "doesn't provide in Vietnam as "a referendum, to realize the necessity of de- "Until now," the senator of visitors, we'll need more "We dcSi't want some wi- enough incentive. not an election." veloping nonautomqtive rapid told Democratic county can- than Rt. 36 for access." seacres from Washington "We would have to increase Too many other nations de- transit systems to Sandy coming in, here issuing procla- didates, municipal officials "It's essential that we get : production by 4% per cent an- pend for survival on Ameri- Hook. and the press at a conference the Port of New York Author-, mations." nually just to stand still. We can to compromise new con- "I understand the access is in Bachert's Hofbrauhaus, ity involved," the Matawan Sen, Jackson, frequently have to create new jobs, new tinued military strength, he so limited, and the area so "the emphasis has been on de- Democrat said. The Demo- mentioned of late as a pos- incentives to get people off said. confined," he said, that in- velopment of national parks in cratic candidates predict the sible Democratic presidential the welfare rolls. "There is waste in the de- troducing more cars to the the west. This area (Sandy introduction of PATH-type candidate, used yesterday's Sen. Jackson sees the wel- See Jackson, Page 2 , Rtgliltr Stair PhaTo SMILING THROUGH — U.S. Sen. Henry M. Jack- 'son, D'Wash., stopping In steady downpour at Sandy Hook for a first-hand view of the local por- Sheriff Seeks State Funds tion of proposed Gateway National Park, gets worm welcome from Mrs. Cecile F. Norton/ may- or of Sea Bright. For TV Jail Surveillance. School Vote Gets By WILLIAM J. ZAORSKI There are an average of 23 -April 5. Two prisoners es- "On Aug. 27, 1971, a prison- guards per shift engaged in caped from the prison "sim- er who was attached to the FREEHOLD-Monmouth prisoner surveillance and con- ply by avoiding detection in U.S. Army at Ft. Monmouth County Sheriff Paul Kiernan trol.