Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Karefa-Smart was placed in the maximum security section of an old British prison, along with supporters from Steven's own cabinet. He spent the first three weeks in solitary confinement, and the remaining 17 weeks in a tiny cell with a small window near the high ceiling. He could not see out, even by jumping and trying to grab the window bars, and he was not permitted visits, letters, or any pasttimes...
...just sat, marking the days with a piece of charcoal smuggled from the kitchen by a sympathetic trustee. He suspects now that Stevens hoped he would go insane. If so, Stevens gave up. Karefa-Smart was released, again without ceremony. He only had time to count the number of marks on the wall. There were...
...freed, Karefa-Smart was warned that while there were no charges against him, he should leave the country, that anything could happen during a state of emergency. At first, he tried to see Stevens to ask why he could not remain in peace. But a minor coup sent Stevens to neighboring Guineau for troops. Karefa-Smart envisioned possible retribution for instigating the spirit of rebellion, and took Stevens' advice. He left again for America...
...Karefa-Smart and his family went to New England, where his wife was raised. A friend at the Medical School, Dr. Alonzo Yerby, persuaded him to come back to Harvard to teach public health...
...marginal importance at the Medical School. But his success has been limited. After a steady diet of Dr. Kildaire and Marcus Welby, Americans are conditioned to curative medicine. "It's natural," says Dr. Dieter Koch Weser, associative dean of the Faculty of Medicine and a close friend of Karefa-Smart. "Someone comes to you with a high fever, you give him antibiotics, and two days later, you have accomplished a minor miracle. It's dramatic. But if you walk into a village, line up 200 children, and shoot them with a vaccine, you're no hero...