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...reasons: John Pearson, a top high school national distance freestyler from Huntsville, Ala.; Jeff Peltier, of Decatur, Ala., a junior national finalist in the 400 individual medley: Bill Bird, a butterflyer and distance freestyler from Syosset, N.Y.; David Berkoff, a national caliber backstroker from Huntington Valley. Pa.; and Junior Olympic champ John Ritch, of Mt. Kisco, N.Y., a middle-distance and distance freestyler...
...innocent man die." That message last week from four Soviet Nobel prizewinners sounded remarkably like hundreds of appeals that have been sent to the Kremlin on behalf of Soviet Dissident Andrei Sakharov. But this letter was addressed to President Ronald Reagan, and the "innocent man" in question was Leonard Peltier, 39, an American Indian imprisoned for life for the 1975 killing of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota...
Ever since Sakharov's latest hunger strike began to attract world attention, the Soviet press has been full of reports on the Jailed American Indian activist, who went on a fast in April and again in May to protest prison conditions. Peltier ended his hunger strike, but graphic Soviet newspaper accounts have continued to describe "an emaciated man, starved to exhaustion" and imprisoned on "charges trumped up by U.S. security services." The Reagan Administration points out that whatever absurd parallels Moscow may draw between the two cases, one difference remains: Sakharov has never been convicted of murder...
...there was more: the bodies of two FBI agents, apparently executed at close range. Leonard Peltier, a leader of AIM, was convicted of the murders on circumstantial evidence. Employing trial transcripts and FBI documents secured under the Freedom of Information Act, Matthiessen argues that the authorities were out to get Peltier long before the crime and that the FBI infiltrated the movement and provoked anti-AIM sentiment among the majority of law-abiding Indians...
Matthiessen makes Peltier's trial something very like a 1960s-style conspiracy drama. He rehashes an "ambush theory" advanced by the defense and makes too much of the negligent autopsy of a former AIM member. Finally, the author drops all pretense of impartiality: "From the Indian's viewpoint-and increasingly from my own-any talk of innocence or guilt was beside the point...