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...those of the teachers and administrators of St. Malachy to confine and bend him to their wills. As he was later to view them, his mother's efforts began before Jackson was born. "As testimony of her love, and her fear for the fate of the man-child all slave mothers hold, she attempted to press, hide, push, capture me in the womb. The conflicts and contradictions that will follow me to the tomb started right there in the womb...
...reward for it all was an indictment on Paragraph 105 Slave Trade Hostile to the State--for enticing citizens of the German Democratic Republic to the West for Western imperialist organizations. I didn't see the indictment until eleven months after I was arrested--one week before the trial. A Secret Police Major told me as I read it: "Hurry up and finish reading it. What are you doing, memorizing it?" Elizabeth was convicted on charges of "Deserting the Republic" and on "Connection" with a Western agent, yours truly. Back in the cell some of the letters Elizabeth had written...
...made to get married, Vogel promised to bring that up as a question at the trial. But he warned me: "Don't contradict the (Secret) Police's testimony. I'm trying to help you and Elizabeth." And he said, "Don't worry about all the political terminology (slave trade, etc.), they always like to give high sentences to foreigners so they can show mercy later." Although Vogel showed up late to the trial, he did get the question in, but after I had listed the first three ways Elizabeth and I had tried to get married legally, the judge, obviously...
...next day that state's attorney demanded that I be sentenced to two-and-one-half years, and in spite of Vogel's convincing defense that I didn't even belong under the Slave-trade paragraph, and that at most I should be remonstrated for giving Elizabeth escape tips and that on one in the West had put me up to it, the indictment stood. In my last word before the judge and two-man jury I simply told them that I took all the blame for anything that I or Elizabeth might have done, but that there...
...wield power undreamt of by the czars. He was a custodian of the nuclear peace, yet he frequently rattled the Soviet saber, once bellowing that Communism would "bury" America. He served the party and the government with an iron hand, and in the 1930s helped send thousands to slave labor camps. Despite that, he is remembered as the crucial transitional figure who led the Soviet Union from an evil era of Stalinist tyranny toward a more moderate form of Communism. Near the end of his life, in the controversial reminiscences that restored him to the center of the international stage...