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Then came the sensational and daring escape of Elizabeth's friend and Jack Strickland's fiancee Brigitte Heider, who escaped through the Berlin Wall in May, 1969, in the bottom of a VW bus with her pet turtle and another East Citizen. Brigitte had escaped under the very nose of her step-father, a top East German Secret Police official, credited as being the man responsible for the security measures involved in the building of the Wall in 1961, and who was quoted as having said of the intervention of the Russians in Prague in 1968, "each and every...
...adjournment, the judge upheld the sentences--there would be no paroles, and all time was to be served in a work camp. Two and one-half years for me, two years and nine months for Elizabeth, and four years for Jack Strickland for his alleged role in Brigitte Heider's escape...
These people are continually preoccupied with fighting, Heider said. The Dutch have tried repeatedly to pacify them, but have met with no success, for they have attempted to stop warfare without substituting anything in its place...
...Karl G. Heider '56, who has just returned from an 13-month expedition to East New Guines, led the first Anthropology Roundtable of the year last night at Leverett House. He was one of the eight members of the 1961 Harvard-Peabody expedition, which included the late Michael Rockefeller...
...events all day, and more, subtly, the invitations to all-night parties. Communication of meeting times and places (even when those were finally settled) was nearly impossible, and the direct action of goon squads made it no easier. At West Station, for example, a teaching fellow in anthropology, Karl Heider, was roughed up for carrying an information sign...