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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...
Brigitte's escape, the reverberations of which were felt all the way to the Kremlin, unleashed a Secret Police manhunt which ended with the arrest, imprisonment, or interrogations of dozens of us. During this time Elizabeth was under constant surveillance so that when I arrived in June, 1969, she told...
But now Brigitte's father and the Secret Police were going to have their day and do us all in. For a brief five minutes I discussed with Elizabeth various possible illegal avenues of escape. Little did I suspect then that the State's entire case against Elizabeth and myself...
The 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...
Among the notable holdouts: French President Georges Pompidou and Brigitte Bardot. Authorities have forbidden use of the beach or water within 1,000 ft. of Pompidou's holiday retreat at Brégançon near Toulon. As for BB, St.Tropez citizens and officials have tacitly agreed not to...