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...Communist prisoner in exchange for a jailed Russian writer last month, his proposal was widely dismissed as a futile gesture designed to mute critics of his oppressive regime. Last week the improbable bargain was consummated. In exchange for the release of Chilean Communist Party Chief Luis Corvalán, 60, the Kremlin freed Dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, 33, who was serving a seven-year sentence for "anti-Soviet agitation...
...seemed more surprised by the unprecedented swap of political prisoners than Corvalán and Bukovsky. Until Thursday of last week. Bukovsky had been immured in the infamous Vladimir Prison in central Russia. Moved on Friday to a Moscow jail, the Russian began to suspect that something was afoot. But not until he was placed aboard a specially chartered Aeroflot jet bound for Zurích did he know that he had been freed. Bukovsky's mother Nina, his sister Olga and his nephew Mikhail were also flown to Switzerland to join him in exile. Simultaneously, Corval...
...killing continued. José ("Comandante Pepe") Gregorio Liendo Vera, a popular revolutionary who organized peasants in the south of Chile to seize farms, was executed by a military firing squad. Communist Party Leader Luis Corvalán Lepe is on trial on a charge of high treason, which carries the death penalty. All told, 476 people have died-some say as many as 5,000-including one American...