Word: prisoner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Originally, Brother Ted planned to go, but he became involved in delicate negotiations to free Constituent Vladimir Kazan-Kornarek from prison in Czechoslovakia (see THE WORLD...
Just why the Communists wanted Kazan so badly is not clear. In 1951, his name-originally Vladimir Komarek-had been linked with a spy ring at the trial of Associated Press Newsman William N. Oatis, who later served two years in a Czech prison on a trumped-up espionage charge. The Czechs also claimed that Kazan once had a role in a gaudy murder in which a secret agent, supposedly firing through his raincoat pocket, killed a policeman in Prague. But when Kazan-Komarek came to trial last week before a three-man tribunal in Prague's municipal courthouse...
...reasons for the kidnap plot, the Czechs went easy on Kazan -possibly because Czechoslovakia is seeking trade advantages from the U.S. and an expansion of tourism, which could hardly be encouraged by the martyrdom of a U.S. citizen. He was sentenced to a comparatively light eight years in prison; he could have got as much as 20. At week's end KazanKomarek's sentence was suspended, and, having satisfied the Czechs' mysterious purpose, he was released and put aboard a flight to New York...
Before reading his prepared remarks, the SDS Executive Secretary told the conference that he had decided "to resign from the Selective Service System" He has sent his draft card back to his local draft board in Washington state and will face a prison term...
...inmate as "making two of 'Pretty Boy,' " dominates the book. Harcamone is in everybody's mind, and he is the principal figure in the homosexual love fantasies of the narrator. Much of the force of Miracle of the Rose depends on the authenticity of the prison argot. As a ten-time loser who has spent a good part of his first 35 years in reformatories and jails, Genet doubtless knows the con's language like a native, but when it comes to English equivalents, Translator Frechtman has no luck at all. Genet, who is a practicing...