Word: volpin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...writers and artists who have been told to leave by the Soviets have-unlike Brodsky -been militant dissidents. The Soviets evidently reasoned that it was less trouble to force them out than to risk the embarrassment of arrests and trials. One of the most recent exiles is Alexander Yesenin-Volpin, 47, a renowned mathematical logician, and a former leader of the dissident movement in Russia. The son of the Russian poet Sergei Yesenin and a Jewish mother, the mathematician was pressured to leave after serving terms in a Stalinist concentration camp and, later, in prison lunatic asylums...
...Teri Volpin and Lee Weinberg, two women from Venice, California, who were imprisoned late last year for refusing to testify before a Federal Grand Jury in Tucson, Arizona-and released on March 25, when the Grand Jury was dismissed-are again in prison in Arizona, for refusing to testify before a new Tucson Grand Jury...
...witnesses appealed their first sentences-arguing that their First and Fourth Amendment rights had been violated-and lost. Volpin and Weinberg are now appealing on the ground that their re-imprisonment constitutes double jeopardy...
...first witness, Teri Volpin, initially received a two-month sentence. When she was released in January, she was immediately subpoenaed again, though the Justice Department clearly knew that she would refuse to testify again. When she insisted on remaining silent, she was returned to prison-this time for the remainder of the Grand Jury investigation. The Grand Jury will probably adjourn on December...
Three of the other witnesses-Karen Duncan, David Scheffler, and Pamela Donaldson-were sentenced to remain in jail until the end of the investigation after their first refusal to testify. One witness, Lee Weinberg, will be released on March 31. She will probably be subpoenaed a second time, like Volpin...