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...finding a place for his presidential papers. Duke University abandoned plans for a Richard M. Nixon Library, and so did the city of Independence, Mo. Now a town in Kansas is bidding for the library, but Nixon may find the offer a bit confining. Reason: the eager suitor is Leavenworth, home to a maximum-security federal penitentiary and three other prisons...
Clyde Graeber, one of the city's five commissioners, concocted the plan as a way to lure law-abiding visitors to Leavenworth. A local businessman has offered to donate ten acres of land, and town officials are busily devising schemes to raise funds to build the library. The former President has not been consulted, but the Chicago Sun Times, begging his pardon, is keen on the idea. Editorialized the paper: "You know, we had a feeling he'd make it there some...
...past seven months, Cuban Refugee Pedro Rodriguez, 48, has been in Leavenworth, Kans., in a maximum-security federal prison. He was shipped there in June soon after admitting to immigration officials that he had a record of four convictions in his homeland (two suitcase thefts that he maintained were necessary "to clothe my family," attempted burglary and a prison escape). Rodriguez was waiting at Leavenworth while Washington tried to persuade Havana to reclaim him and about 1,800 other "undesirables." So far, the Cuban government has demurred. Since Rodriguez was never officially admitted to the U.S., he is considered...
Though Rodriguez was the sole petitioner, the Topeka ruling probably will speed the release of all 234 Cubans at Leavenworth. Moreover, it could pay dividends for other "undesirable" refugees in federal prisons, who make up just over 1% of those who fled Cuba last year for the land of "open hearts and open arms" that was promised by President Carter. Of the 800 crammed into a penitentiary in Atlanta, six are awaiting judicial action on petitions similar to Rodriguez's. Most reportedly reckon that if they must be locked up somewhere, they would prefer to be back in Cuba...
Cambridge Mayor Thomas H. Danehy, who was included in the charges, said with a smile during a recess last night, "My wife is preparing to do without me for a year when they send me to Leavenworth Penitentiary. Fuckin ridiculous! One of the charges against me concerns a donation by my 81-year-old mother. Another concerns a 73-year-old cousin. It's hard to take all this very seriosly," he added