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...walked out the door. But I never saw her again and at this moment she is said to be working in the kitchen of a work camp in East Germany where she has been for more than two years. Around noon I and my American friend Jack Strickland left Elizabeth's apartment in a VW camper bus to return to West Berlin via the crossing Checkpoint Charlie. We were run off the road by two carloads of eight plainclothesmen, presumably Secret Police, although they never identified themselves as they poured into the doors and windows of the camper and hustled...
Then came the sensational and daring escape of Elizabeth's friend and Jack Strickland's fiancee Brigitte Heider, who escaped through the Berlin Wall in May, 1969, in the bottom of a VW bus with her pet turtle and another East Citizen. Brigitte had escaped under the very nose of her step-father, a top East German Secret Police official, credited as being the man responsible for the security measures involved in the building of the Wall in 1961, and who was quoted as having said of the intervention of the Russians in Prague in 1968, "each and every...
...arrests followed the escape of Strickland's fiancee--the daughter of a high official in the East German secret public-so West German...
...sentenced years." Jenkins said. He and Strickland were released after 22 months, however, when a work-hunger strike and the signing of the fourpower create on West...
...Graduate Student Recruiter-- In response to the need for generating greater numbers of potential applicants from minority communities, the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences appointed Mr. George Strickland to serve as a representative for the Graduate School. Mr. Strickland has been responsible for identifying potential candidates for doctoral programs, visiting predominantly black schools which have not previously sent applicants to Harvard and working with departments in their search for minority applicants...