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Bukovsky is committed to calling the world's attention to the plight of the political prisoners in Soviet jails, concentration camps and prison psychiatric hospitals. His last cell at Vladimir, a fortress-like penitentiary, was shared by four men. It was excruciatingly small: Soviet prison regulations allow for only 27 sq. ft. of space per prisoner. There was so little room that Bukovsky spent most of his days sitting cross-legged on his bunk, reading. After the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. signed the Helsinki agreement last year, Bukovsky recalled bitterly, even journals from other Communist countries were taken from...
Rotten Fish. Vladimir Prison's 1,300 inmates are allowed into tiny courtyards, about the size of the cells, for one hour of fresh air each day. Bukovsky belonged to the "black" category of political prisoners, so named because of their somber prison garb. Contact with other prisoners was prohibited. "We had lots of ways to communicate, though," said Bukovsky. One way was through a few sympathetic guards who passed on the cheering news of the protest campaign being carried on for Bukovsky in the West. The prison grapevine quickly carried the news of Bukovsky's dramatic month...
Although Bukovsky himself was never tortured, he told of prisoners being beaten. "The worst thing was boredom," Bukovsky said. In the lunatic asylum run by the KGB, where he was confined from 1963 to 1965, Bukovsky had to endure countless hours of propaganda "reindoctrination," while the police doctors argued about whether his dissident views qualified him as a schizophrenic or a psychopath. In the asylum he found some textbooks for the study of English. "You know," he confided, "English grammar is funny-a bit mad to us Russians-so why not study it in a prison madhouse...
...freedom for the past six years. After that he hopes to go to Holland to study biology at the University of Leyden. "Leyden had very old ties with Russia," Bukovsky ex plained. "Peter the Great sent Russians to study there. The university mailed postcards to me in prison for my birthday and, remarkably enough, this was the only correspondence from abroad that ever got through...
That was for a jury to decide, and a year ago a phalanx of literary and show biz personalities joined Dylan in seeking a new trial for Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter, a former middleweight boxer convicted of murder who, with his friend John Artis, had been in prison for nine years. The two finally got their second chance after the New Jersey Supreme Court threw out their convictions because the prosecution had failed to disclose evidence affecting the reliability of its two prime witnesses (TIME, March 29). Last week the second trial ended, and Carter, 39, and Artis, 30, sat stoically...