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Stratton stumbled upon this gold mine of frontier history--a unique and impressive collection--five years ago in her grandmother's attic. Visiting her ancestor's Topeka. Kansas, home during a semester break from Harvard. Stratton uncovered the manuscripts while poking in a musty filing cabinet lodged under the eaves. Its contents revealed reams of personal testimonies from 800 Kansas women: women in combat with rattlers, prairie blazes and cayotes: women in solitary labor in the cornfields and in the home giving birth with only the cows as witnesses: and, by the 1870s, women embroiled in local politics, temperance...
Last week, however, Federal District Court Judge Richard Dean Rogers ruled in Topeka that Rodriguez is entitled at least to the protection of international law, the United Nations charter and basic human rights. His extended imprisonment, Rogers concluded, violated all three. Citing testimony by University of Kansas Sociologist William Robert Arnold, the judge said that inmates detained without a time limit endure "more mental strain than an ordinary prisoner." He ordered the Government to prove at a hearing that Rodriguez is dangerous to society or else grant him some form of relief within 90 days, ranging from assignment...
Though Rodriguez was the sole petitioner, the Topeka ruling probably will speed the release of all 234 Cubans at Leavenworth. Moreover, it could pay dividends for other "undesirable" refugees in federal prisons, who make up just over 1% of those who fled Cuba last year for the land of "open hearts and open arms" that was promised by President Carter. Of the 800 crammed into a penitentiary in Atlanta, six are awaiting judicial action on petitions similar to Rodriguez's. Most reportedly reckon that if they must be locked up somewhere, they would prefer to be back in Cuba...
Taken together, the three birthday celebrators have more summers behind them than does the nation itself. Former Kansas Governor Alf Landon, 93, the eldest of the trio, was given a regular River City-style salute by the trombones of the Landon Middle School band in Topeka. The Governor still maintains a high degree of horse sense with daily rides on Red, his 27-year-old Morgan. "I'm in good shape," reports Landon, who carried the G.O.P. banner during the ill-fated campaign against F.D.R. in 1936, "though I can't get in and out of the saddle...
...Vere Hoskins Topeka, Kans...