Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kremlin-at 2 Dzerzhinsky Square. The dour, ocher-colored buildings look down on the Bolshoi Theater and the entrance to Red Square. The agency has a huge network of informers within the U.S.S.R., and it can often veto applications for new jobs, visas and university admissions. It operates prison camps and mental hospitals and directs the Soviet campaign against dissidents. Lubyanka Prison, where victims of Stalin's purges, such as Grigori Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev, were executed, is part of the 2 Dzerzhinsky Square complex of buildings...
Denisenko gave a pair of golden cuff links bearing the hammer-and-sickle crest to Swiss Brigadier General Jean-Louis Jeanmaire. When Jeanmaire wore them, Swiss security agents had their first clue to his treachery; he was sentenced to an 18-year prison term...
...been hiding out with his wife Lynn and three daughters. He was apparently traced by the FBI through his wife. Just where he will end up, no one is certain; he is wanted in at least four states on charges ranging from parole violation to escaping from prison. The biggest trial will probably be in Massachusetts. Authorities in that state attached deposits of nearly $2 million made by "Carr" in Bermuda banks...
DISCIPLINE AND PUNISH: THE BIRTH OF THE PRISON by Michel Foucault; translated by Alan Sheridan Pantheon; 333 pages...
...Commander Lloyd Bucher calls his "footnote in history," but the former skipper of the U.S.S. Pueblo doesn't believe in brooding. "I'm not a morose type of person. The sharp edges of Korea have eroded," says Bucher, 50, who spent eleven months in a North Korean prison after the capture of his ship. Since his retirement from the Navy in 1973, Bucher has done a bit of writing and lecturing. His topic on the lecture circuit: "What's Right with America." He has also taken up an old hobby, painting with watercolors, and has enrolled...