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...back. Last week, in the Leningrad municipal court where the earlier trials were held, nine more Jews loosely linked with the group that planned the same abortive hijacking were convicted, most of them on charges stemming from Zionist activities. Two of them-Gilya Butman, 38, an engineer, and Mikhail Korenblit, 33, a physician-were convicted of treason and sentenced to ten years and seven years, respectively, of a "strict regime" in a Soviet labor camp. (In the U.S., the minimum penalty for attempted hijacking is 20 years imprisonment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: The Leningrad Nine | 5/31/1971 | See Source »

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