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...another example of what appears to be a more mellow Communist policy, East Germany last week freed, before the end of their allotted terms, four Americans who had been in East German prisons for more than a year. Three of them-Frederick Matthews, 24, Moses Herrin, 26, and Mary Battle, 26-had been convicted of the once unpardonable offense of assisting persons who wanted to flee the Iron Curtain. The fourth, William Lovett, 26, was imprisoned in May, 1965 for his part in a serious auto crash in Leipzig...
Also verboten was any passage by East Berliners in the opposite direction. To underline that point, two Americans were sentenced to eight years of hard labor by an East German court for helping five East Germans to escape. Moses Herrin, 23, and Frederick Mattews, 23, both former servicemen working as bartenders in West Berlin, were arrested on Sept. 19 when the Grepos found a 13-year-old girl, trying to reach her parents in West Berlin, hidden in their car. Also detained by the Reds ever since Nov. 24, on suspicion of "aiding flight from the Republic," was Mary Helen...
...LOUIS HERRIN...
...sure, so I'm going to have some fun." Missouri's handsome Stu Symington wound up two weeks of galoshing around snowbound southern Illinois at a rally in the gymnasium of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Herrin (pop. 9,331). More than 400 party zealots, including virtually every Democratic candidate for local office or for the national convention from 19 southern Illinois counties, gave Symington a heartening welcome. It was, Symington said, "the best political meeting for me since 1948." But for a man campaigning in the friendly sector of a neighboring state...
...position last week did not satisfy Wicker's superiors on the general board of the Southern Baptist Church in North Carolina. After a six-hour hearing, the board dismissed from their jobs: Wicker, 39, secretary of the Baptist Student Union at Duke University; the Rev. J. C. Herrin, 29, Baptist Student Union secretary at the University of North Carolina, and the union's state secretary, the Rev. James W. Ray, 39. Like Wicker, the others had been found too infirm in Baptist fundamentals for the general board...