Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last Thursday afternoon, two convicts named Otis D. Wilkerson (alias Robert Nathan Jones), 24, and Frank Gorham Jr., 25, were brought from the Washington, D.C., jail to the U.S. district courthouse to confer with their lawyer. Coincidentally, John D. Ehrlichman and three other defendants were on trial for their roles in the Ellsberg break-in on the second floor of the building. After a conference with their attorney, the two men, both of whom were serving lengthy sentences on charges ranging from armed robbery to conspiracy to kidnap, were returned to their cells in the basement. A short time later...
...West German law locksteps to its literal conclusion, a Nazi-hunter will go to jail while the convicted war criminal she tried to kidnap and spirit away to France will stay free. The hunted Nazi is Kurt Lischka, 65, the wartime Gestapo chief in Paris, who was tried in absentia by a French court in 1950 and sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in the deportation and extermination of 100,000 French Jews. The hunter is Beate Klarsfeld, 35, German-born Protestant wife of a French Jew, who moved to Paris in 1960 and has made a career...
...student husband, whose father died at Auschwitz, began to compile dossiers on unpunished German war criminals. In 1971, Beate launched almost singlehanded a campaign to catch and arrest "the Butcher of Lyon," ex-SS Captain Klaus Barbie, who had fled to Peru, then Bolivia. Released from jail several months ago, he is now free in Bolivia...
Beate, who has dual French-German citizenship, finally was tried, convicted and sentenced on narrowly legalistic grounds last week in a Cologne courtroom. Presiding Judge Victor de Somoskeoy, ignoring an expression of concern from French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, gave her two months in jail. Not even the prosecution had sought a jail term; it had urged that Beate be put on probation for six months. Though the sentence has some support in Germany, it set off protests in both Israel and France: Davar, a leading Israeli daily, criticized the court for "sticking...
...Jail Tunnel. The results, starting with Westlake's The Fugitive Pigeon in 1965, have brought new life to a neglected subgenre: the caper novel. In The Spy in the Ointment (1966), a typographical error on an FBI list caused a pacifist to become mixed up with bomb-throwing subversives. In The Hot Rock (1970), a raffish foursome engineered several fiendishly clever jewel thefts in search of a rare emerald that turned out never to be where it was supposed to be. In Bank Shot (1972), a suburban bank temporarily operating out of a mobile home was robbed...