Abstract

Editorials

The article discusses matters related to social and political issues of the U.S. It states that in September 1971, lawyer Haywood Burns surveyed the carnage in Attica's prison yard after state troopers killed thirty-two inmates and eleven corrections-officer hostages. With Attica and his draconian drug laws, Rockefeller taught a generation of leaders, including U.S. President Bill Clinton, that the sacrifice of prisoners' rights and lives offers the fastest route to a political makeover and a cleansing of liberal taint. It also reports that in December the White House played host to the newly re-elected President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine and President Nur-sultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan, both prime examples of the systemic political and economic corruption plaguing Russia.